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No.22 Acquisition of Microfinance Institutions by Commercial Investors: Evidence on Its Impacts on Outreach of the Cambodian Microfinance Institutions

  • AIBA Daiju
Recent developments in the microfinance sector have attracted a large inflow of capital investment. At t...
  • Date of issuance｜ 2024年03月
  • Research area｜ Economic Growth and Poverty Reduction
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No.21 Synthesizing the Empirical Evidence on the Productivity of Public Capital in Japan: A Meta-Analysis

  • ISHIZUKA Fumiaki
Over the past few decades many attempts have been made to measure the output elasticity of public capita...
  • Date of issuance｜ 2024年03月
  • Research area｜ Economic Growth and Poverty Reduction
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A Survey of Cambodian Households in Rural Villages: An Assessment of Living Standards Using Kakeibo and its Impact as a Financial Education Tool

  • AIBA Daiju
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  • Noguchi Yoshinari
Kakeibo is a method of household bookkeeping designed to efficiently save money. In the field of social ...
  • Date of issuance｜ 2024年03月
  • Research area｜ Economic Growth and Poverty Reduction
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No.20 Examining Women’s Commuting Experience in Urban Philippines: A Photovoice Exercise on Human Security

  • Lisette R. ROBLES
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  • Sandy Mae Gaspay
Human security is easily associated with examining disasters and other catastrophic events. However, our...
  • Date of issuance｜ 2024年03月
  • Research area｜ Peacebuilding and Humanitarian Support
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China’s Foreign Aid as a Proxy of ODA: Preliminary Estimate 2001-2022

  • KITANO Naohiro
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  • Miyabayashi Yumiko
By establishing the China International Development Cooperation Agency (CIDCA) in 2018, China has attemp...
  • Date of issuance｜ 2024年03月
  • Research area｜ Politics and Governance
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China-Zambia Engagements: Is There Change, What Has Changed and Why?

  • Godfrey Hampwaye
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  • Pádraig Carmody
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  • Phoebe Mokgadi Ramaloko
This paper examines China-Zambia bilateral relations from a historical perspective. In particular, it lo...
  • Date of issuance｜ 2024年01月
  • Research area｜ Politics and Governance
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How Do Smaller Countries in the Indo-Pacific Region Proactively Interact With China? An Introduction

  • TAKAHARA Akio
What factors have contributed to the evolution of bilateral relations between the smaller states in the ...
  • Date of issuance｜ 2024年01月
  • Research area｜ Politics and Governance
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How Does the Development Frontline View the Major Powers? A Perception Survey Toward China in Zambia

  • ASADA Ray
In general, perception surveys toward foreign countries tend to focus on urban populations with consiste...
  • Date of issuance｜ 2024年01月
  • Research area｜ Politics and Governance
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No.17 Financial Literacy Among Microfinance Borrowers: Its Importance and Determinants from a Household Survey in Cambodia

  • SAMRETH Sovannroeun
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  • AIBA Daiju
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  • Vandy Phal
Financial inclusion can play an important role in reducing poverty and improving people’s living standar...
  • Date of issuance｜ 2024年01月
  • Research area｜ Economic Growth and Poverty Reduction
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No.16 Measuring Interregional Fund Flows in a Dollarized Economy: Evidence from Branch-level Data of Deposits and Loans in Cambodia

  • AIBA Daiju
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  • Vithyea You
Partial dollarization is a prevailing phenomenon in the banking sectors of many developing countries. Ho...
  • Date of issuance｜ 2024年01月
  • Research area｜ Economic Growth and Poverty Reduction
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Understanding Bangladesh-China Relations: Bangladesh’s Rising Geopolitical Agency and China’s Regional and Global Ambitions

  • Lailufar Yasmin
Bangladesh-China relations has been a matter of much scrutiny since China emerged as Bangladesh’s bigges...
  • Date of issuance｜ 2024年01月
  • Research area｜ Politics and Governance
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Unveiling Sri Lanka’s Agency: Empowering Infrastructural Transformation in China-Sri Lanka Relations

  • Chulanee Attanayake
Sri Lanka’s relations with China have been under wide discussion since Beijing’s rapid engagement with t...
  • Date of issuance｜ 2023年12月
  • Research area｜ Politics and Governance
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The New Dynamics of Japan’s Official Development Assistance in an Era of Great Power Competition

  • SHIGA Hiroaki
Escalation of great power rivalry resulting from China’s rise and Russia’s invasion of Ukraine has promp...
  • Date of issuance｜ 2023年12月
  • Research area｜ Politics and Governance
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What Does the Media of a Smaller State Say About Bigger States? - Spotlighting Bangladesh’s Leading Online Media

  • IMAI Natsuko
This paper examines how the Bangladeshi online media argues the country’s bilateral relations with bigge...
  • Date of issuance｜ 2023年11月
  • Research area｜ Politics and Governance
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From Aquino to Marcos: Political Survival and Philippine Foreign Policy Towards China

  • Alvin Camba
How does the Philippines form its foreign policy toward the People’s Republic of China (PRC)? Existing w...
  • Date of issuance｜ 2023年11月
  • Research area｜ Politics and Governance
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Laos-China Infrastructure Cooperation: Legitimation and the Limits of Host-country Agency

  • Cheng-Chwee Kuik
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  • Zikri Rosli
Focusing on Laos’s engagement with China’s Belt and Road Initiative (BRI), this article examines the rol...
  • Date of issuance｜ 2023年11月
  • Research area｜ Politics and Governance
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Human Security and Empowerment in Asia: Beyond the Pandemic

  • Mely Caballero-Anthony
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  • MINE Yoichi
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  • ISHIKAWA Sachiko
Many East Asian countries have realized high economic growth; however, their economic growth is not nece...
  • Date of issuance｜ 2023年10月
  • Research area｜ Peacebuilding and Humanitarian Support
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Nudging Not Nagging: Leveraging Mentorship and Patronage in Sino-Uzbek Relations, 2017-2022

  • Timur Dadabaev
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  • Shigeto Sonoda
This paper considers Sino-Uzbek relations by critically assessing the positivist depictions of Central A...
  • Date of issuance｜ 2023年10月
  • Research area｜ Politics and Governance
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Introducing Foreign Models for Development: Japanese Experience and Cooperation in the Age of New Technology

  • OHNO Izumi
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  • Jin Kimiaki
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  • Amatsu Kuniaki
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  • Mori Junichi
This open access book studies how foreign models of economic development can be effectively learned by a...
  • Date of issuance｜ 2023年10月
  • Research area｜ Development Cooperation Strategies
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No.4 Estimating the Economic Viability of Long-Term Investment in Flood Protection: Case Study of the Natorigawa River

  • ISHIWATARI Mikio
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  • Sakamoto Masashi
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  • Sasaki Daisuke
Investments in disaster risk reduction are essential for mitigating disaster damage, an aim stressed by ...
  • Date of issuance｜ 2023年09月
  • Research area｜ Development Cooperation Strategies
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