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No.224 Impact of Interest Rate Cap Policies on the Lending Behavior of Microfinance Institutions: Evidence from Millions of Observations in the Credit Registry Database

  • AIBA Daiju
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  • SAMRETH Sovannroeun
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  • Sothearoath Oeur
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  • Vanndy Vat
In April 2017, the Cambodian central bank introduced an interest rate cap (IR cap) policy relating to le...
  • Date of issuance｜ 2021年10月
  • Research area｜ Economic Growth and Poverty Reduction
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The Cost Efficiency of Cambodian Commercial Banks: A Stochastic Frontier Analysis

  • AIBA Daiju
In recent decades, the Cambodian banking sector has rapidly expanded in line with the country’s sustaine...
  • Date of issuance｜ 2021年10月
  • Research area｜ Economic Growth and Poverty Reduction
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No.8 Interest Rate Cap Policy in Cambodia -Summary of Findings from a Survey and the Policy Implications-

  • AIBA Daiju
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  • SAMRETH Sovannroeun
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  • Vandy Phal
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  • Sothearoath Oeur
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  • Date of issuance｜ 2021年07月
  • Research area｜ Economic Growth and Poverty Reduction
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No.7 Understanding the Progress of Bangladesh

  • YAMADA Eiji
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  • Yasuo Fujita
Despite its start as one of the poorest countries in the world, Bangladesh has been observing a continuo...
  • Date of issuance｜ 2021年03月
  • Research area｜ Economic Growth and Poverty Reduction
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No.219 Impacts of the Interest Rate Ceiling on Microfinance Sector in Cambodia: Evidence from a Household Survey

  • SAMRETH Sovannroeun
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  • AIBA Daiju
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  • Sothearoath Oeur
    • ,
  • Vanndy Vat
This paper examines the effects of the imposition of an interest rate ceiling in the microfinance sector...
  • Date of issuance｜ 2021年03月
  • Research area｜ Economic Growth and Poverty Reduction
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No.216 Microfinance Competition and Multiple Borrowing: Evidence Using Panel Data from Bangladesh

  • Minhaj Mahmud
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  • Mari Tanaka
This paper examines the causes and consequences of multiple borrowing in rural Bangladesh using long-ter...
  • Date of issuance｜ 2021年01月
  • Research area｜ Economic Growth and Poverty Reduction
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No.213 The Local Economic Competitiveness of Rural Hometowns for Overseas Remittances-Induced Investments: Two Case Studies from the Philippines

  • Alvin P. Ang
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  • Jeremaiah M. Opiniano
Rural communities of origin play an important role in harnessing the development potential of overseas r...
  • Date of issuance｜ 2020年07月
  • Research area｜ Economic Growth and Poverty Reduction
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Migration, Living Conditions, and Skills: A Panel Study - Tajikistan, 2018

  • Enerelt Murakami
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  • YAMADA Eiji
Tajikistan is the poorest country in Central Asia with an economy that is heavily dependent on migration...
  • Date of issuance｜ 2020年03月
  • Research area｜ Economic Growth and Poverty Reduction
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No.209 Remittance Investment Climate Analysis: Framework and Methods to Ascertain the Local Development Potential of Overseas Remittances

  • Jeremaiah M. Opiniano
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  • Alvin P. Ang
This paper presents the integrated mixed methods results and findings of four community-based studies on...
  • Date of issuance｜ 2020年03月
  • Research area｜ Economic Growth and Poverty Reduction
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No.208 The Cost Efficiency of Cambodian Commercial Banks: A Stochastic Frontier Analysis

  • AIBA Daiju
Regulating a banking sector requires a deep understanding of the industry structure and behavior of bank...
  • Date of issuance｜ 2020年03月
  • Research area｜ Economic Growth and Poverty Reduction
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No.204 Does Learning the Social Model Improve Behavior towards Persons with Disabilities? A Randomized Experiment for Taxi Drivers in South Africa

  • IGEI Kengo
This study examines the impacts of a training program related to the social model of disability, called ...
  • Date of issuance｜ 2020年03月
  • Research area｜ Economic Growth and Poverty Reduction
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Leave No One Behind: Time for Specifics on the Sustainable Development Goals

  • Homi KHARAS
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  • John W. McArthur
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  • OHNO Izumi
In 2015, all 193 member states of the United Nations adopted the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) an...
  • Date of issuance｜ 2019年10月
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No.5 Evidence-Based Strategy for a Rice Green Revolution in Sub-Saharan Africa

It is urgent to increase productivity of staple crops per unit of land in order to improve food security...
  • Date of issuance｜ 2019年03月
  • Research area｜ Economic Growth and Poverty Reduction
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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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No.168 Were the Adverse Effects of Disability on Employment Mitigated during 2002-2015 in South Africa?: A Pseudo-Panel Approach

  • IGEI Kengo
This study examines the effects of disability on employment status and changes in these effects over tim...
  • Date of issuance｜ 2018年03月
  • Research area｜ Economic Growth and Poverty Reduction
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No.165 Inverse J-Shaped Relationship between Fertility and Gender Equality: Different Relationships of the Two Variables According to Income Levels

  • Yoko Nakagaki
The fertility decline, which started first in developed countries, has been observed among most developi...
  • Date of issuance｜ 2018年03月
  • Research area｜ Development Cooperation Strategies
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Harnessing the Data Revolution to Achieve the Sustainable Development Goals: Enabling Frogs to Leap

  • Erol Yayboke
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  • Erin Nealer
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  • Charles Rice
Information Communication Technology (ICT) has developed rapidly, and the volume and types of data have ...
  • Date of issuance｜ 2017年09月
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No.151 Breaking the Poverty Trap: A Psychological Framework for Facilitating Autonomous Motivation and Sustainable Behavioral Change in Development Aid Beneficiaries

  • Nobuo R. Sayanagi
Workers in the field of development aid, particularly those involved in capacity development projects, h...
  • Date of issuance｜ 2017年03月
  • Research area｜ Development Cooperation Strategies
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No.146 The Evolving Life Improvement Approach: From Home Taylorism to JICA Tsukuba, and Beyond

  • Tomomi Kozaki
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  • Yusuke Nakamura
In this article, we examine the history of the Life Improvement Approach (LIA) from around the turn of t...
  • Date of issuance｜ 2017年03月
  • Research area｜ Development Cooperation Strategies
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No.142 Untangling Disability and Poverty: A Matching Approach Using Large-scale Data in South Africa

  • IGEI Kengo
Disability and poverty are interconnected with each other. This entangled relationship and the complexit...
  • Date of issuance｜ 2017年03月
  • Research area｜ Development Cooperation Strategies
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