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No.16 Toward Improving Governance in Bangladesh: Insights from Experience in Supporting City Governance

  • WATANABE Hiroki
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  • ANZAI Naoko
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  • FUSAMAE Rie
Since the 2000s, Bangladesh has experienced consistent economic growth, yet significant challenges persi...
  • Date of issuance｜ 2026年05月
  • Research area｜ Development Cooperation Strategies
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No.51 At-Risk Youth as a Source of Peacebuilding: Findings from a Field Survey in Liberia

  • ASANO Rui
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  • TANAKA-SAKABE Yukako
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  • NAGATSUJI Takashi
At-risk youth, who are disconnected and marginalized from others, are considered a threat to national se...
  • Date of issuance｜ 2026年04月
  • Research area｜ Politics and Governance
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No.50 Mazrui’s Pan-Africanism: A Post-TICAD 9 Commentary

  • Seifudein ADEM
Pan-Africanism has a long pedigree. It has meant many things for varied people at different times. But i...
  • Date of issuance｜ 2026年03月
  • Research area｜ Peacebuilding and Humanitarian Support
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No.47 Land Reform and Rural Transformation: Linking Land Tenure Security to Labour Reallocation, International Migration, and Nutritional Outcomes in Sub-Saharan Africa

  • TEKLEHAYMANOT Solomon Haddis
This study examines whether land-tenure reforms—specifically rural land certification—facilitate labour ...
  • Date of issuance｜ 2026年02月
  • Research area｜ Economic Growth and Poverty Reduction
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No.17 Legitimacy-driven organisations: How can we manage them for better results?

  • Fushimi Katsutoshi
Sociological neo-institutionalism asserts that aid-recipient and development organisations need to demon...
  • Date of issuance｜ 2025年12月
  • Research area｜ Development Cooperation Strategies
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No.30 The Impact of Social-Economic Factors in the Rise of Violent Extremism―An Empirical Study in African Countries

  • Bin Ni
What roles do social-economic factors play in the process of violent extremism (hereafter VE)? Concernin...
  • Date of issuance｜ 2024年11月
  • Research area｜ Peacebuilding and Humanitarian Support
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No.29 Zambia’s Media Perspective on China, the US, Japan, and South Africa: Comparative Exploration through Private Online Media

  • IMAI Natsuko
This paper examines Zambia’s private online media perspectives on bilateral relations with China, Japan,...
  • Date of issuance｜ 2024年11月
  • Research area｜ Politics and Governance
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State-Managed International Voluntary Service: The Case of Japan Overseas Cooperation Volunteers

  • OKABE Yasunobu
Since its establishment in 1965, Japan Overseas Cooperation Volunteers (JOCVs) have believed that they s...
  • Date of issuance｜ 2024年10月
  • Research area｜ Development Cooperation Strategies
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‘Human Security, Politics and Society under Compounded Crises’—the Second Issue of the JICA Ogata Research Institute Report ‘Human Security Today’

  • Akihiko Tanaka
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  • MINE Yoichi
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  • Mely Caballero-Anthony
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  • HARADA Tetsuya
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  • MAKIMOTO Saeda
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  • MUTO Ako
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  • SHIGA Hiroaki
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  • TAKAHARA Akio
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  • SATO Jin
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  • HANATANI Atsushi
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  • Sugitani Kota
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  • TAKEUCHI Kaito
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  • ARAI Makiko
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  • ISHIZUKA Fumiaki
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  • IDA Akiko
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  • HIKAMI Naoko
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  • TSUCHIYA Tsunetaka
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  • SATO Ichiro
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  • NOGUCHI Fumiko
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  • ENDO Kei
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  • Fujiie Hitoshi
JICA Ogata Sadako Research Institute for Peace and Development (JICA Ogata Research Institute) has launc...
  • Date of issuance｜ 2024年09月
  • Research area｜ Politics and Governance, Economic Growth and Poverty Reduction, Human Development, Peacebuilding and Humanitarian Support, Global Environment, Development Cooperation Strategies
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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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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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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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The Dynamics of the Republic of Serbia’s Cooperation with China via the Belt and Road Initiative and the “Sixteen plus One” Platform

  • Dragana MITOVIC
In this paper, we examine what factors played a determining role in creating new and dynamic bilateral r...
  • Date of issuance｜ 2023年08月
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