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No.38 Impact Investors in the Microfinance Sector: Empirical Analysis of Debt Investment in Normal and Crisis Periods

  • AIBA Daiju
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  • Bomakara Heng
The microfinance sector relies heavily on foreign funding sources, making it vulnerable to fluctuations ...
  • Date of issuance｜ 2025年04月
  • Research area｜ Economic Growth and Poverty Reduction
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Heterogeneous Effects of Horticulture Commercialization and Gender-based Decision-making on Smallholder Farmers’ Income: Evidence From a Quasi-experimental Study in Jimma Zone, Ethiopia

  • Asmiro A. Fikadu
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  • NOMURA Hisako
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  • Girma G. Gebre
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  • Payal Shah
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  • TAKAHASHI Yoshifumi
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  • YABE Mitsuyasu
This paper assesses the heterogeneous impact of horticulture commercialization and gender-based decision...
  • Date of issuance｜ 2025年03月
  • Research area｜ Development Cooperation Strategies
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No.34 Perceptions of Microfinance: Evidence from a Household Survey in Cambodia

  • SAMRETH Sovannroeun
This study examines how people perceive microfinance in Cambodia. Using data and information from a hous...
  • Date of issuance｜ 2025年01月
  • Research area｜ Economic Growth and Poverty Reduction
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State-Managed International Voluntary Service: The Case of Japan Overseas Cooperation Volunteers

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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No.26 How Mental Accounting, and Financial Literacy Shape the Financial Situation of Overseas Filipino Workers (OFWs): A Multinomial Logistic Regression Study

  • MURATA Akira
This study explores the factors affecting the financial situation of overseas Filipino workers (OFWs), u...
  • Date of issuance｜ 2024年10月
  • Research area｜ Economic Growth and Poverty Reduction
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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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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.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.13 Urban Poverty During COVID-19 in Vietnam: A Case Study of the Ma Lang-Dong Tien Neighborhood, Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam

  • Vu Le Thao Chi
Urban Poverty is a thorny issue for developing societies. But, while poverty can be a consequence of the...
  • Date of issuance｜ 2023年07月
  • Research area｜ Peacebuilding and Humanitarian Support
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No.10 Financial Literacy and Remittances: The Case of Mongolian Migrants in Japan

  • Enerelt Murakami
This paper examines determinants of financial literacy and its effect on remittances among a rarely stud...
  • Date of issuance｜ 2023年06月
  • Research area｜ Economic Growth and Poverty Reduction
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Irrigation Infrastructure and Trust: Evidence From Natural and Lab-in-the-field Experiments in Rural Communities

  • Keitaro Aoyagi
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  • Yasuyuki Sawada
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  • Masahiro Shoji
Does irrigation infrastructure build trust, and how? To answer, this paper tests two processes of trust ...
  • Date of issuance｜ 2022年05月
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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年03月
  • Research area｜ Economic Growth and Poverty Reduction
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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年12月
  • Research area｜ Economic Growth and Poverty Reduction
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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
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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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  • 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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