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No.184 Japan’s Foreign Aid and ‘Quality’ Infrastructure Projects: The Case of the Bullet Train in India

  • Purnendra JAIN
This paper analyses Japan’s motivation for supporting the high-speed rail (HSR or bullet train) project ...
  • Date of issuance｜ 2019年03月
  • Research area｜ Development Cooperation Strategies
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No.182 Second-chance Education in Post-conflict Timor-Leste:Youth and Adult Learners’ Motives, Experiences and Circumstances

  • Taro Komatsu
Timor-Leste is a post-conflict nation that marked its independence in 2002, becoming the newest sovereig...
  • Date of issuance｜ 2019年01月
  • Research area｜ Peacebuilding and Humanitarian Support
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No.181 The Impact of Migration and Remittances on Labor Supply in Tajikistan

  • Enerelt Murakami
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  • YAMADA Eiji
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  • Erica Paula Sioson
This paper examines the labor supply effects of migration and remittances in Tajikistan – a major labor ...
  • Date of issuance｜ 2019年01月
  • Research area｜ Economic Growth and Poverty Reduction
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No.180 Variety of Middle-Income Donors: Comparing Foreign Aid Approaches by Thailand and Indonesia

  • SATO Jin
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  • Awidya Santikajaya
Is there a middle-income approach to international cooperation that differs from the approach of advance...
  • Date of issuance｜ 2019年01月
  • Research area｜ Development Cooperation Strategies
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Human Security Norms in East Asia

  • MINE Yoichi
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  • Oscar A. Gomez
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  • MUTO Ako
Many East Asian countries have realized high economic growth; however, their economic growth is not nece...
  • Date of issuance｜ 2018年12月
  • Research area｜ Peacebuilding and Humanitarian Support
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No.179 Critical Factors for Success among Social Enterprises in India

  • Katsuo Matsumoto
In addressing the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), it is expected that governments, ...
  • Date of issuance｜ 2018年12月
  • Research area｜ Development Cooperation Strategies
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Regional Cooperation for Peace and Development: Japan and South Korea in Southeast Asia

  • Brendan Howe
Japan and South Korea have achieved little in the field of traditional security cooperation to date desp...
  • Date of issuance｜ 2018年11月
  • Research area｜ Peacebuilding and Humanitarian Support
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No.178 Does Social Capital Encourage Disaster Evacuation? Evidence from a Cyclone in Bangladesh

  • Masahiro Shoji
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  • MURATA Akira
Prompt evacuation is essential to survival from natural disasters, but the mechanisms behind individuals...
  • Date of issuance｜ 2018年11月
  • Research area｜ Economic Growth and Poverty Reduction
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China’s Foreign Aid: Current Status and Future Challenges

  • KITANO Naohiro
Naohiro Kitano, a visiting fellow at the JICA Research Institute and a professor, Global Center for Scie...
  • Date of issuance｜ 2018年10月
  • Research area｜ Development Cooperation Strategies
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Human Security and Cross-Border Cooperation in East Asia

  • Carolina G. Hernandez
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  • Eun Mee Kim
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  • MINE Yoichi
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  • Ren Xiao
The East Asian region faces a host of human security challenges – ranging from natural disasters and inf...
  • Date of issuance｜ 2018年09月
  • Research area｜ Peacebuilding and Humanitarian Support
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No.3 Revisiting Human Security: Recommendations from a Research Project Targeting Eleven East Asian Countries

  • MUTO Ako
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  • MINE Yoichi
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  • Ryutaro Murotani
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  • Kubokura Ken
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  • Rui SARAIVA
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  • KONO, Ayako
The concept and operationalization of human security are still controversial even after the intensive di...
  • Date of issuance｜ 2018年09月
  • Research area｜ Peacebuilding and Humanitarian Support
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Case Studies of Social Infrastructure Demand Estimates in Indonesia and Thailand

According to the Asian Development Bank’s report entitled “Meeting Asia’s Infrastructure Needs” publishe...
  • Date of issuance｜ 2018年08月
  • Research area｜ Development Cooperation Strategies
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No.175 Sexual Exploitation of Trafficked Children: Evidence from Bangladesh

  • Masahiro Shoji
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  • Kenmei Tsubota
Although human trafficking is a serious humanitarian problem of global scale, there is very little knowl...
  • Date of issuance｜ 2018年06月
  • Research area｜ Economic Growth and Poverty Reduction
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Final Report “A Study on Asia’s Infrastructure Needs: Estimating Urban Rail Infrastructure Needs”

The report “Meeting Asia’s Infrastructure Needs,” published by the Asian Development Bank (ADB) in Febru...
  • Date of issuance｜ 2018年04月
  • Research area｜ Economic Growth and Poverty Reduction
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No.170 Japan’s Experience of Creating Innovation for Smart Cities: Implications for Public Policy for Urban Sustainability

  • Yarime Masaru
In our efforts to promote an urban sustainability, the transformation to smart cities will play a signif...
  • Date of issuance｜ 2018年03月
  • Research area｜ Global Environment
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No.169 A ‘Local’ Response to Peacebuilding Efforts in Timor-Leste

  • TANAKA-SAKABE Yukako
Many international agencies and donors that have implemented peacebuilding activities in a variety of co...
  • Date of issuance｜ 2018年03月
  • Research area｜ Peacebuilding and Humanitarian Support
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No.163 Technical Efficiency of Public and Private Hospitals in Vietnam: Do Market-Oriented Policies Matter?

  • Hideaki Kitaki
This study examined how ownership and the degree of competition in the market were related to pure techn...
  • Date of issuance｜ 2018年03月
  • Research area｜ Economic Growth and Poverty Reduction
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No.162 The Hearts, Minds, and Sentiments: The Volunteers Program in the Immunization Program in Bangladesh and the Chagas Diseases Control Project of Honduras

  • Naoko Ueda
This paper argues that the work of the Japan Overseas Cooperation Volunteers (JOCV) brought about sustai...
  • Date of issuance｜ 2018年03月
  • Research area｜ Development Cooperation Strategies
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No.160 Determinants of Firms’ Capital Structure Decisions in Highly Dollarized Economies: Evidence from Cambodia

  • AIBA Daiju
This paper empirically investigates the features and determinants of capital structure decisions of firm...
  • Date of issuance｜ 2018年01月
  • Research area｜ Economic Growth and Poverty Reduction
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No.159 Teacher and Parental Perspectives of Barriers for Inclusive and Quality Education in Mongolia

  • Yuriko Kameyama
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  • KURODA Kazuo
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  • Yuji Utsumi
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  • Yuka Hosoi
This paper calls attention to the concept of quality education for children with disabilities in develop...
  • Date of issuance｜ 2017年12月
  • Research area｜ Development Cooperation Strategies
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