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No.232 Understanding Financial Inclusion in Mongolia From a Micro Perspective: Is There a Gender Gap?

  • Enerelt Murakami
This paper investigates the determinants of financial inclusion in Mongolia – a country where persistent...
  • Date of issuance｜ 2022.03
  • Research area｜ Economic Growth and Poverty Reduction
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No.231 Unpacking the Influence of Business Approaches to Development on the Expansion of Women’s Choices and Empowerment: A Case Study of a Handicraft Business in the Kyrgyz Republic

  • Yukimi Shimoda
Over the last decade, collaboration with the private sector in international development has accelerated...
  • Date of issuance｜ 2022.03
  • Research area｜ Development Cooperation Strategies
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No.230 Risk Management for Smallholder Farmers: An Empirical Study on the Adoption of Weather-Index Crop Insurance in Rural Kenya

  • Fukumori Keiko
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  • Arai Ayumi
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  • Matsumoto Tomoya
This study examines the determinants of smallholder farmers’ adoption of weather-index crop insurance, w...
  • Date of issuance｜ 2022.03
  • Research area｜ Economic Growth and Poverty Reduction
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No.228 Perceived Home and Host Country Institutional Environment Pressures by Bilateral Development Cooperation Agency's Constituents

  • Fushimi Katsutoshi
Neo-institutional theorists assert that institutional environments control organisational behaviour. The...
  • Date of issuance｜ 2022.03
  • Research area｜ Development Cooperation Strategies
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No.227 Gender Income Gap Among Cambodian Farmers: The Effects of Formal Credit Usage

  • Vichet Sam
The purpose of this article is to analyze the determinants of the gender income gap among farmers in Cam...
  • Date of issuance｜ 2021.12
  • Research area｜ Economic Growth and Poverty Reduction
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No.226 The Importance of Farm Management Training for the African Rice Green Revolution: Experimental Evidence from Rainfed Lowland Areas in Mozambique

  • Kei Kajisa
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  • Vu Trang Thu
There remains an unsettled question regarding the achievement of the African rice Green Revolution (GR):...
  • Date of issuance｜ 2021.12
  • Research area｜ Development Cooperation Strategies
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No.225 From Project to Outcome: the Case of the National Greenhouse Gas Inventory in Indonesia

  • Kawanishi Masato
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  • Nela Anjani Lubis
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  • Ueda Hiroyuki
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  • Morizane Junko
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  • Fujikura Ryo
This study analyzes how and under what conditions technical cooperation may generate larger effects on e...
  • Date of issuance｜ 2021.12
  • Research area｜ Global Environment
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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｜ 2021.10
  • Research area｜ Economic Growth and Poverty Reduction
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No.223 Evaluating the Robustness of Project Performance Under Deep Uncertainty of Climate Change: A Case Study of Irrigation Development in Kenya

  • NARITA Daiju
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  • SATO Ichiro
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  • Daikichi Ogawada
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  • Akiko Matsumura
While financing for climate adaptation projects is gaining prominence worldwide, the methods of performa...
  • Date of issuance｜ 2021.08
  • Research area｜ Global Environment
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No.222 Strengthening Teacher Support for Students to Improve Math Learning: Empirical Evidence on a Structured Pedagogy Program in El Salvador

  • MARUYAMA Takao
While recent debates on educational development focus on the learning crisis in primary education, the c...
  • Date of issuance｜ 2021.07
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No.221 Investments in Flood Protection: Trends in Flood Damage and Protection in Growing Asian Economies

  • Ishiwatari Mikio
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  • Sasaki Daisuke
Investing in flood protection is crucial in mitigating flood damage. However, most recent studies have n...
  • Date of issuance｜ 2021.05
  • Research area｜ Economic Growth and Poverty Reduction
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No.220 An Inquiry into the Process of Upgrading Rice Milling Service: The Case of Mwea Irrigation Scheme in Kenya

  • Yukichi Mano
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  • Timothy Njagi Njeru
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  • Keijiro Otsuka
Countries in sub-Sahara Africa (SSA) heavily rely on rice imported from Asia, partly because of rapidly ...
  • Date of issuance｜ 2021.03
  • 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
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  • Vanndy Vat
This paper examines the effects of the imposition of an interest rate ceiling in the microfinance sector...
  • Date of issuance｜ 2021.03
  • Research area｜ Economic Growth and Poverty Reduction
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No.218 Resilience against the Pandemic: the Impact of COVID-19 on Migration and Household Welfare in Tajikistan

  • Shimizutani Satoshi
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  • YAMADA Eiji
Tajikistan’s economy hinges heavily on remittance inflows mainly from Russia that have exceeded a quarte...
  • Date of issuance｜ 2021.01
  • Research area｜ Economic Growth and Poverty Reduction
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No.217 Developing Textbooks to Improve Student Math Learning: Empirical Evidence from El Salvador

  • MARUYAMA Takao
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  • Kurosaki Takashi
School enrollment has rapidly increased since 1990 in developing countries at the primary level but the ...
  • Date of issuance｜ 2021.01
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No.216 Microfinance Competition and Multiple Borrowing: Evidence Using Panel Data from Bangladesh

  • Minhaj Mahmud
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  • Yasuyuki Sawada
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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｜ 2021.01
  • Research area｜ Economic Growth and Poverty Reduction
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No.215 A Quest for Learning and Beyond: Aiming at Second Chance Education in the Occupied Palestinian Territories

  • Sachiko G. Kamidohzono
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  • Iyas Salim Abu-Hajiar
Violent conflict poses huge challenges and restrictions on people’s lives and their fundamental rights, ...
  • Date of issuance｜ 2020.09
  • Research area｜ Peacebuilding and Humanitarian Support
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No.214 Monetary Policy Spillover Into a Developing Country When the US Federal Fund Rate Rises: Evidence on a Bank Lending Channel

  • AIBA Daiju
Banks in developing countries are highly dependent on funding sources from abroad, and such high depende...
  • Date of issuance｜ 2020.07
  • 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｜ 2020.07
  • Research area｜ Economic Growth and Poverty Reduction
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No.212 Are the Operations of Microfinance Institutions Different Across Countries? A Comparative Analysis of Cambodia and the Philippines Using DEA and PCA

  • AIBA Daiju
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  • OKUDA Hidenobu
Of all the Southeast Asian countries, Cambodia and the Philippines have well-developed microfinance inst...
  • Date of issuance｜ 2020.03
  • Research area｜ Economic Growth and Poverty Reduction
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