Institute of Developing Economies (IDE; アジア経済研究所) is a semi-governmental research institute under the

Ministry of Economy, Trade and Industry The or METI, is a ministry of the Government of Japan. It was created by the 2001 Central Government Reform when the Ministry of International Trade and Industry (MITI) merged with agencies from other ministries related to economic activities, ...

, and the largest institute on social science in Japan. Current status is a body of the

Japan External Trade Organization is an Independent Administrative Institution established by Japan Export Trade Research Organization as a nonprofit corporation in Osaka in February 1952, reorganized under the Ministry of International Trade and Industry (MITI) in 1958 (later the ...

. It is located in Kaihin-Makuhari area of Mihama Ward,

Chiba City is the capital city of Chiba Prefecture, Japan. It sits about east of the centre of Tokyo on Tokyo Bay. The city became a government-designated city in 1992. In June 2019, its population was 979,768, with a population density of 3,605 people p ...

. The President of IDE is Takashi Shiraishi（白石隆）, who is the vice president of the

National Graduate Institute for Policy Studies The , or GRIPS, is an elite, highly selective research graduate school located in Minato, Tokyo. Funded by the Japanese Government, it has the status of national university. It is also one of Asia's leading think tanks of policy scholars and socia ...

. IDE's major research field is

development economics Development economics is a branch of economics which deals with economic aspects of the development process in low- and middle- income countries. Its focus is not only on methods of promoting economic development, economic growth and structural ...

and

area studies Area studies (also known as regional studies) are interdisciplinary fields of research and scholarship pertaining to particular geographical, national/ federal, or cultural regions. The term exists primarily as a general description for what ar ...

. IDE is also de facto mother body of

ERIA ''Eria'' is a genus of orchids with more than 50 species distributed in China, the Himalayas, the Indian Subcontinent, Southeast Asia, New Guinea, Polynesia, Melanesia and Micronesia. Species ''Eria'' species accepted by the Plants of the Wo ...

. Before ERIA acquire status of legal personality, IDE provides the management of budget, research projects, and human resources.

Presidents

Only after merged with JETRO * Ippei Yamazawa (山澤逸平): 1998–2003 *

Masahisa Fujita is a Japanese economist who has studied regional science and Urban economics and International Trade, Spatial Economy ( New Economic Geography). He is a professor at Konan University and an adjunct professor at Institute of Economic Research, ...

（藤田昌久）: 2003–2007 * Takashi Shiraishi （白石隆）: 2007–present

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* Think tanks based in Japan Economic research institutes Political organizations based in Japan {{econ-org-stub

Presidents

See also

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