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, and the largest institute on social science in Japan.Current status is a body of the Japan External Trade Organization.　It locates in Kaihin-Makuhari area of Mihama Ward

Mihama-ku, Chiba

is one of the six wards of the city of Chiba in Chiba Prefecture, Japan. As of 2011, the ward had an estimated population of 150,382 and a population density of 7,110 persons per km². The total area was 21.16 km².-Geography:...

, Chiba City. The President of IDE is Takashi Shiraishi（白石隆）, who is the vice president of the National Graduate Institute for Policy Studies

National Graduate Institute for Policy Studies

, or GRIPS, is a national university in Minato, Tokyo, Japan, founded in 1997.The National Graduate Institute for Policy Studies is a stand-alone graduate school focused on policy studies...

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IDE's major research field is development economics

Development economics

Development Economics is a branch of economics which deals with economic aspects of the development process in low-income countries. Its focus is not only on methods of promoting economic growth and structural change but also on improving the potential for the mass of the population, for example,...

 and area studies

Area studies

Area 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 are, in the practice of scholarship, many heterogeneous fields of research, encompassing...

. IDE is also de facto mother body of ERIA

Economic Research Institute for ASEAN and East Asia

The Economic Research Institute for ASEAN and East Asia or ERIA is a policy think tank proposed by Japan arising out of the East Asia Summit, proposed at the Second EAS and approved at the Third EAS. ERIA aims; to facilitate ASEAN Economic Community building; to support ASEAN's role as the driver...

. 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
  Masahisa Fujita
  is a Japanese economist and professor at Kyoto university, who has studied regional science and Urban Economics and International Trade, Spatial Economy .Fujita majored in urban planning as an undergraduate at Kyoto University...
  
  （藤田昌久）:2003-2007
• Takashi Shiraishi（白石隆）:2007-