【Close】Launch Seminar “Training-Infrastructure-Finance (TIF) Strategy for Industrial Development in Sub-Saharan Africa”

Day：2018.01.10

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  • DayJanuary 10, 2018, 18:00 - 20:00(Registration starts from 17:30)
  • Place400 conference room, 4th floor, JICA Ichigaya Building
    10-5 Ichigaya Honmuracho, Shinjuku-ku, Tokyo
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  • OrganizerJICA
  • LanguageEnglish only
  • FeeFree
  • Capacity70 people
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Contents

JICA Research Institute (JICA-RI) launches a report titled “Training-Infrastructure-Finance (TIF) Strategy for Industrial Development in Sub-Saharan Africa.”

This paper attempts to propose a strategy to support industrial development in Sub-Saharan Africa. Specifically, it offers the following three intimately related components of the development strategy: sequential support, which starts from training of entrepreneurs followed by infrastructure investment and financial support (TIF); linkage with foreign direct investment (FDI); and continued investment in human capital.

In this seminar, Prof. Keijiro Otsuka at Kobe University will present the report, and Dr. John Page, Senior Fellow of the Brookings Institution will make comments on this report. In the following panel, Prof. Keijiro Otsuka, Prof. Tetsushi Sonobe, National Graduate Institute for Policy Studies, Dr. John Page, Mr. Ken Odajima, Executive Senior Research Fellow of JICA-RI, and Mr. Hiroyuki Tomita, Senior Director of Industrial Development and Public Policy Department of JICA will discuss how we can achieve the industrial development in Sub-Saharan Africa. Dr. Go Shimada, Visiting Scholar of JICA-RI will serve as a moderator.

Contents

18:00-18:05　Opening Remarks
Dr. Naohiro Kitano, Director, JICA-RI

18:05-18:35　Presentation
Prof. Keijiro Otsuka, Kobe University

18:35-18:50　Comments
Dr. John Page, Senior Fellow of the Global Economy and Development Program at the Brookings Institution

18:50-19:30　Panel Discussion
Prof. Keijiro Otsuka, Kobe University
Prof. Tetsushi Sonobe, National Graduate Institute for Policy Studies
Dr. John Page, Senior Fellow of the Global Economy and Development Program, Brookings Institution
Mr. Ken Odajima, Executive Senior Research Fellow, JICA-RI
Mr. Hiroyuki Tomita, Senior Director of the Team II Private Sector Development Group, Industrial Development and Public Policy Department, JICA

Moderator: Dr. Go Shimada, Visiting Scholar, JICA-RI / Associate Professor of Economics, Graduate School of International Relations, the University of Shizuoka

19:30-19:57　Q&A session

19:57-20:00　Closing Remarks
Dr. Nobuko Kayashima, Deputy Director, JICA-RI

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