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Atsuko Mizuno Last modified date:2023.04.28

Associate Professor / Fields in International Economic Analysis / Department of International Economy and Business / Faculty of Economics


Presentations
1. Kenta Goto and Atsuko Mizuno, The Asian Garment Industry in Global Value Chains: An Overview / The Myanmar Garment Industry’s Position in the Global Value Chain:Focusing on Export Expansion in the 2010s, The 12th INDAS-South Asia International Conference, 2020.12.
2. LIU Xiaojun, MIZUNO Atsuko, FUKAGAWA Hiroshi, "The Implementation and Effects of the Direct Payments for Hilly and Mountainous Area: The Case of Kurogimachi in Yame City, Fukuoka Prefecture ", 政治経済学・経済史学会九州部会, 2019.10.
3. Atsuko Mizuno, Production Migration to Labor-sending Countries, and Upgrading of the Thai Garment Industry, SEASIA 2017 Conference, 2017.12, Previouse study has shown that unskilled foreign workers have provided Thailand breathing space to upgrading the industry by allowing the country to continue with labor-intensive industried. It is pointed out that the garment firms, that were late in upgrading were likely to hire foreign workers during the period of structural adjustment. Thailand's cloting industry exports reached a peak in the latter half of the 2000s, and then began to show a downward trend. Meanwhile, the labour-sending countries to Thailand, especially Cambodia and Myanmar, has increased clothing exports since the begining of this century. Higher poroduction costs and labour shortage forced the garment manufactures in Thailand to implement industrial up grading, and move some production to the neighboring countries, in order to stay competitive and even achieve some growth. However, the relationship between employing foreign workers, the status of ungrading and production shifts to labor-sending countries has not been regorously assesed. The major popuse of this study is to analyse upgrading of Thai garment industry and production migration to Myanmar, the largest labour-sending country, with a focus on the evolution of the production network between these to countries. The produncion shift of garment industry from Thailand to the labour-sending countries expanded in the 2010s, in stite of coutinuouse labour immigration to the industry in Thailand. We reveal that production networks between thailand and the neighbouring countries were consolidated and that the Thai garment industry has sucseeded in upgrading while employing foreign workers trough this change..