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No.62 Achieving the Millennium Development Goals:Lessons for Post-2015 New Development Strategies

  • Jeet Bahadur Sapkota
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  • Sakiko Shiratori
Most of the reports on the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) released by the multilateral development ...
  • Date of issuance｜ 2013年08月
  • Research area｜ Development Cooperation Strategies
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The Coalition for African Rice Development Progress in 2008-2013

  • Hiroyuki Kubota
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  • OTSUKA Keijiro
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  • Kei Kajisa
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  • Yoko Kijima
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  • Yuko Nakano
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  • Yukinori Ito
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  • Ellen Payongayong
JICA launched the Coalition for African Rice Development (CARD) initiative at the Fourth Tokyo Internati...
  • Date of issuance｜ 2013年06月
  • Research area｜ Economic Growth and Poverty Reduction
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WORKING PAPERS Initiative for Policy Dialogue (IPD) Task Force Meeting with Prof. Joseph Stiglitz ～JICA and IPD (Columbia University)～

  • Joseph STIGLITZ
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  • Julia Cagé
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  • Ha-Joon Chang
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  • Sakiko FUKUDA-PARR
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  • Stephany Griffith-Jones
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  • HOSONO Akio
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  • Danny Leipziger
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  • Shahid Yusuf
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  • Akbar Noman
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  • Annalisa Primi
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  • Go Shimada
JICA-RI has conducted a joint research with the Initiative for Policy Dialogue (IPD), led by Professor J...
  • Date of issuance｜ 2013年05月
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Development Challenges in Africa Towards 2050

JICA-RI released a report, Development Challenges in Africa Towards 2050 for the Fifth Tokyo Internation...
  • Date of issuance｜ 2013年05月
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For Inclusive and Dynamic Development in Sub-Saharan Africa

  • Kei Yoshizawa
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  • MAKINO Koji
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  • OTSUKA Keijiro
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  • Jiro Aikawa
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  • Go Shimada
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  • Toru Homma
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  • Hiromichi Murakami
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  • Yasuo Fujita
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  • Ippei Tsuruga
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  • Asami Takeda
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  • Kaori Matsushita
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  • TAKIZAWA Ikuo
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  • Kazuro Shibuya
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  • Tomonori Sudo
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  • Ryutaro Murotani
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  • Shunichiro Honda
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  • Yukimi Shimoda
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  • MAKINO Koji
The JICA Research Institute has prepared a report that summarizes the experiences amassed by JICA and it...
  • Date of issuance｜ 2013年04月
  • Research area｜ Economic Growth and Poverty Reduction
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No.58 The Determinants of Technology Adoption:The Case of the Rice Sector in Tanzania

  • Yuko Nakano
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  • Kei Kajisa
Using an extensive household-level data set collected in Tanzania, this paper investigates the determina...
  • Date of issuance｜ 2013年03月
  • Research area｜ Economic Growth and Poverty Reduction
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No.56 Conflict Analysis in Virtual States (CAVS): 　A New Experimental Method Based on the Extensive Use of Multi-Agent Simulation (MAS) and Geographical Information System (GIS)

  • Takuto Sakamoto
Conflict Analysis in Virtual States (CAVS) offers a fresh approach to analyzing civil conflicts,which al...
  • Date of issuance｜ 2013年03月
  • Research area｜ Development Cooperation Strategies
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No.55 Impact of a shade coffee certification program on forest conservation: A case study from a wild coffee forest in Ethiopia

  • Ryo Takahashi
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  • Yasuyuki Todo
In recent years, shade coffee certification programs have attracted increased attention from conservatio...
  • Date of issuance｜ 2013年03月
  • Research area｜ Development Cooperation Strategies
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How Can Africa Flourish with Ethnic Diversity? : Synopsis of the Fifth Kobe University/JICA Conference on Ethnic Diversity and Economic Instability in Africa

  • Hiroyuki Hino
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  • John Lonsdale
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  • Taylor St. John
Ethnicity is believed to be a source of deep-rooted social tensions in Africa, posing a threat to the st...
  • Date of issuance｜ 2013年01月
  • Research area｜ Economic Growth and Poverty Reduction
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No.50 Is GBS Still a Preferable Aid Modality?

  • Mitsuaki Furukawa
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  • Junichiro Takahata
This paper attempts to assess the effect of General Budget Support (GBS) in developing countries by usin...
  • Date of issuance｜ 2013年01月
  • Research area｜ Development Cooperation Strategies
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No.49 Expansion of Lowland Rice Production and Constraints on a Rice Green Revolution: Evidence from Uganda

  • Yoko Kijima
In Uganda, rice production has increased rapidly in the past 10 years while the yield has been stagnant....
  • Date of issuance｜ 2012年12月
  • Research area｜ Economic Growth and Poverty Reduction
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No.48 General Budget Support in Tanzania, Late Disbursement and Service Delivery

  • Mitsuaki Furukawa
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  • Junichiro Takahata
The actual flow of General Budget Support (GBS) is not well known in developing countries.There have bee...
  • Date of issuance｜ 2012年11月
  • Research area｜ Development Cooperation Strategies
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No.47 Modes of Collective Action in Village Economies: Evidence from Natural and Artefactual Field Experiments in a Developing Country

  • Ryuji Kasahara
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  • Keitaro Aoyagi
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  • Masahiro Shoji
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  • Mika Ueyama
In a canonical model of collective action, individual contribution to collective action is negatively co...
  • Date of issuance｜ 2012年08月
  • Research area｜ Economic Growth and Poverty Reduction
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Ethnic Diversity and Economic Instability in Africa: Interdisciplinary Perspectives

  • Hiroyuki Hino
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  • John Lonsdale
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  • Gustav Ranis
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  • Frances Stewart
Ethnic diversity is generally assumed a contributor to poor economic growth and economic instability in ...
  • Date of issuance｜ 2012年07月
  • Research area｜ Economic Growth and Poverty Reduction
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No.46 Regional Integration in East Africa Diversity or Economic Conformity

  • Junichi Goto
The present paper examines the economic rationale for regional economic integration, such as a common ma...
  • Date of issuance｜ 2012年06月
  • Research area｜ Economic Growth and Poverty Reduction
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No.42 Do Community-Managed Schools Facilitate Social CapitalAccumulation? Evidence from the COGES Project in Burkina-Faso

  • Yasuyuki Sawada
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  • Takaharu Ishii
In this paper, we investigate the role of a School Management Committee (COGES) in facilitating social c...
  • Date of issuance｜ 2012年03月
  • Research area｜ Development Cooperation Strategies
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Good Growth and Governance in Africa: Rethinking Development Strategies

  • Akbar Noman
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  • Kwesi Botchwey
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  • Howard Stein
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  • Joseph STIGLITZ
The result of the joint research between JICA Research Institute and the Initiative for Policy Dialogue ...
  • Date of issuance｜ 2012年03月
  • Research area｜ Economic Growth and Poverty Reduction
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No.8 "Prevention of Violent Conflict in Africa"

  • Date of issuance｜ 2012年03月
  • Research area｜ Peacebuilding and Humanitarian Support
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Linking Resource Users' Perceptions and Collective Action in Commons Management – An Examination of Water Supply Systems in Southern Senegal

  • HANATANI Atsushi
The absence of sustainable management and the lack of maintenance of water supply systems remain major c...
  • Date of issuance｜ 2012年02月
  • Research area｜ Economic Growth and Poverty Reduction
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No.38 Do Export Costs Matter in Determining Whether, When, and How Much African Firms Export?

  • Wim Naudé and Marianne Matthee
What is the impact of export costs on the speed and extent to which African firms exports? We answer thi...
  • Date of issuance｜ 2012年02月
  • Research area｜ Economic Growth and Poverty Reduction
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