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No.141 Effect of School Factors on Gender Gaps in Learning Opportunities in Rural Senegal: Does School Governance Matter?

  • Mikiko Nishimura
In the international sphere, gender equality is primarily discussed in relation to the gender parity ind...
  • Date of issuance｜ 2017年02月
  • Research area｜ Development Cooperation Strategies
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No.140 Toward an Accounting of the Values of Ethiopian Forests as Natural Capital

  • NARITA Daiju
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  • Mulugeta Lemenih
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  • Yukimi Shimoda
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  • Alemayehu N. Ayana
Ethiopia has experienced a long-term problem with deforestation. Despite the broad implications of such ...
  • Date of issuance｜ 2017年02月
  • Research area｜ Global Environment
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Efficiency, Finance and Varieties of Industrial Policy

  • Akbar Noman
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  • Joseph STIGLITZ
What should be the nature of industrial policy in the new era of striving for "quality growth"? This vol...
  • Date of issuance｜ 2016年11月
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Exploring User Incentive Mechanisms for Sustainable Water Infrastructure Management – An Institutional Analysis of Rural Water Supply Systems in Senegal

  • HANATANI Atsushi
Like other regions in the developing world, sub-Saharan Africa experiences the poor management of rural ...
  • Date of issuance｜ 2016年08月
  • Research area｜ Economic Growth and Poverty Reduction
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No.133 Examination of Poverty in Northern Mozambique:A Comparison of Social and Economic Dimensions

  • Naoko Shinkai
Sub-Saharan African countries have demonstrated high economic growth in the last decade. However, it see...
  • Date of issuance｜ 2016年07月
  • Research area｜ Economic Growth and Poverty Reduction
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Transformative Innovation for International Development: Operationalizing Innovation Ecosystems and Smart Cities for Sustainable Development and Poverty Reduction

  • Helen Moser
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  • Charles Rice
This report is the first annual report on the results of joint research between the Center for Strategic...
  • Date of issuance｜ 2016年05月
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No.121 The Motivation of Participants in Successful Development Aid Projects: A Self-Determination Theory Analysis of Reasons for Participating

  • Nobuo R. Sayanagi
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  • Jiro Aikawa
The aim of this study was to reveal the reasons that extension officers and farmers give for participati...
  • Date of issuance｜ 2016年03月
  • Research area｜ Development Cooperation Strategies
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No.120 Election, Implementation, and Social Capital in School-Based Management: Evidence from a Randomized Field Experiment on the COGES Project in Burkina Faso

  • Yasuyuki Sawada
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  • Takeshi Aida
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  • Andrew S. Griffen
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  • Eiji Kozuka
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  • Haruko Noguchi
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  • Yasuyuki Todo
In this paper, we investigate the role of School Management Committees (COGES) in Burkina Faso. These co...
  • Date of issuance｜ 2016年03月
  • Research area｜ Development Cooperation Strategies
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No.119 Outsourced Technical Cooperation Reconsidered: Agency Problems in the Support of Decentralized Public Service Delivery in Sierra Leone

  • Satoru Mikami
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  • Mitsuaki Furukawa
Technical cooperation at the implementation stage is indispensable for translating the effects of fund f...
  • Date of issuance｜ 2016年03月
  • Research area｜ Development Cooperation Strategies
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Background Paper for African Transformation Report 2016: Transforming Africa’s Agriculture

Agricultural productivity in Africa is about one third of comparable Asian small holder farmers. Many fa...
  • Date of issuance｜ 2016年03月
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No.115 Can School-Based Management Generate Community-Wide Impacts in Less Developed Countries? Evidence from Randomized Experiments in Burkina Faso

  • Yasuyuki Todo
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  • Eiji Kozuka
While impacts of school-based management (SBM), i.e., decentralization of levels of authority to the sch...
  • Date of issuance｜ 2016年02月
  • Research area｜ Development Cooperation Strategies
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No.113 Measuring the Quality of Education Policies and Their Implementation for Better Learning: Adapting World Bank's SABER Tools on School Autonomy and Accountability to Senegal

  • Takako Yuki
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  • IGEI Kengo
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  • Angela Demas
This paper examines the quality of policy intent and policy implementation in education policies related...
  • Date of issuance｜ 2016年02月
  • Research area｜ Development Cooperation Strategies
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No.112 How Can Community Participation Improve Educational Outcomes? Experimental Evidence from a School-Based Management Project in Burkina Faso

  • Eiji Kozuka
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  • Yasuyuki Sawada
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  • Yasuyuki Todo
Promoting community participation in school management is a widely found intervention in the developing ...
  • Date of issuance｜ 2016年01月
  • Research area｜ Development Cooperation Strategies
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In Pursuit of an African Green Revolution: Views from Rice and Maize Farmers' Fields

  • Keijiro Otsuka
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  • Donald F. Larson
The Green Revolution in Asia increased agricultural productivity, boosted food production, and also cont...
  • Date of issuance｜ 2016年01月
  • Research area｜ Economic Growth and Poverty Reduction
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No.109 Measuring Quality of Policies and Their Implementation for Better Learning: Adapting the World Bank's SABER Tools on School Autonomy and Accountability to Burkina Faso

  • Takako Yuki
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  • IGEI Kengo
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  • Angela Demas
This paper examines the quality of the policy intent with respect to the school-based management system ...
  • Date of issuance｜ 2015年12月
  • Research area｜ Development Cooperation Strategies
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Industrial Policy and Economic Transformation in Africa

  • Joseph STIGLITZ
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  • Akbar Noman
The revival of economic growth in Sub-Saharan Africa to over 5% annually is all the more welcome followi...
  • Date of issuance｜ 2015年09月
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No.106 Convergence of Aid Models in Emerging Donors? Learning Processes, Norms and Identities, and Recipients

  • Hisahiro Kondoh
This paper analyses aid models of emerging economies in terms of their orientation to the OECD Developme...
  • Date of issuance｜ 2015年07月
  • Research area｜ Development Cooperation Strategies
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No.105 On the Determinants of High Productivity Rice Farming in Irrigated Areas in Senegal: The Efficiency of Large Compared with Small-Scale Irrigation Schemes

  • Takeshi Sakurai
Irrigated rice farming in the Senegal River Valley is known to be highly productive, as indicated by the...
  • Date of issuance｜ 2015年04月
  • Research area｜ Economic Growth and Poverty Reduction
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No.90 The Impact of Training on Technology Adoption and Productivity of Rice Farming in Tanzania: Is Farmer-to-Farmer Extension Effective?

  • Yuko Nakano
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  • Takuji W. Tsusaka
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  • Takeshi Aida
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  • Valerien O. Pede
How far can new technologies taught to a small number of selected farmers diffuse to other farmers in a ...
  • Date of issuance｜ 2015年03月
  • Research area｜ Economic Growth and Poverty Reduction
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No.86 Constraints on Rice Sector Development in Mozambique

  • Kei Kajisa
We analyze a rice farmer panel data set that was collected in 2007/08 and 2011 in Mozambique. We found t...
  • Date of issuance｜ 2014年12月
  • Research area｜ Economic Growth and Poverty Reduction
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