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Peace and Development
No.32 "Gacaca and DDR: The Disputable Record of State-Building in Rwanda"
Shinichi Takeuchi
Published in July, 2011
No.5 "State-building in Fragile Situations: Japanese Aid Experiences in Cambodia, Afghanistan, and Mindanao"
Ryutaro Murotani, Eiji Wakamatsu, Tomonori Kikuchi, Masafumi Nagaishi, Naoyuki Ochiai
Published in March, 2010
No.1 "Conflict and Land Tenure in Rwanda"
Shinichi Takeuchi, Jean Marara
Published in September, 2009

Growth and Poverty Reduction
No.45 "Success as Trap? Crisis Response And Challenges To Economic Upgrading in Export-Oriented Southeast Asia"
Richard Doner
Published in March, 2012
No.44 "Unraveling the Enigma of East Asian Economic Resiliency: The Case of Taiwan"
Yun-han Chu
Published in March, 2012
No.43 "99 Problems (But A Crisis Ain't One) Political Business and External Vulnerability in Island Southeast Asia"
Thomas B. Pepinsky
Published in March, 2012
No.40 "Policy Challenges for Infrastructure Development in Asian LICs: Lessons from the Region"
Yasuo Fujita
Published in March, 2012
No.38 "Do Export Costs Matter in Determining Whether, When, and How Much African Firms Export?"
Wim Naudé and Marianne Matthee
Published in February, 2012
No.37 "Ethnic Networks and Technical Knowledge Learning in Industrial Clusters"
Yessica C.Y. Chung
Published in January, 2012
No.35 "Evidence from Spatial Correlation of Poverty and Income in Kenya"
Nobuaki Hamaguchi
Published in November, 2011
No.33 "Social Capital as an Instrument for Common Pool Resource Management: A Case Study of Irrigation Management in Sri Lanka"
Takeshi Aida
Published in August, 2011
No.28 "Empirical Study on Industrial Cluster in Africa, the Role of Space, Infrastructure, Human Resource and Social Capital
― Location Choice and Performance of Furniture Workshops in Arusha, Tanzania― "
Megumi Muto, Yessica, C.Y. Chung , and Shinobu Shimokoshi
Published in March, 2011
No.25 "On the Possibility of a Lowland Rice Green Revolution in Sub-Saharan Africa:
Evidence from the Sustainable Irrigated Agricultural Development (SIAD) Project in Eastern Uganda"
Yoko Kijima, Yukinori Ito, and Keijiro Otsuka
Published in December, 2010
No.22 "Ethnicity and Democracy in Africa"
Bruce J. Berman
Published in November, 2010
No.20 "Ethnic Patriotism and Markets in African History"
John Lonsdale
Published in September, 2010
No.19 "Will China's Recovery Affect Africa's Prospects for Economic Growth?"
MASWANA, Jean-Claude Djo Lamana
Published in July, 2010
No.18 "Challenge for the OVOP Movement in Sub-Saharan Africa
―Insights from Malawi, Japan and Thailand―"
Kiyoto Kurokawa, Fletcher Tembo, Dirk Willem te Velde
Published in June, 2010
No.17 "The Green Revolution and Its Significance for Economic Development
―The Indian Experience and Its Implications for Sub-Saharan Africa―"
Koichi Fujita
Published in June, 2010
No.16 "Motives behind Community Participation
―Evidence from Natural and Field Experiments in a Developing Country―"
Masahiro Shoji, Keitaro Aoyagi, Ryuji Kasahara, Yasuyuki Sawada
Published in June, 2010
No.15 "The Global Financial Crisis and Recession
―Impact on and Development Prospects for Africa―"
MASWANA, Jean-Claude Djo Lamana
Published in April, 2010
No.14 "Has Decentralization in Indonesia Led to Elite Capture of Reflection of Majority Preference?"
Shyamal Chowdhury, Futoshi Yamauchi
Published in March, 2010
No.13 "Climate Change, Perceptions and the Heterogeneity of Adaptation and Rice Productivity: Evidence from Indonesian Villages"
Futoshi Yamauchi, Sony Sumaryanto, Reno Dewina
Published in March, 2010
No.12 "Impact of Prenatal and Environmental Factors on Child Growth: Evidence from Indonesia"
Futoshi Yamauchi, Katsuhiko Higuchi, Rita Nur Suhaeti
Published in March, 2010
No.11 "Human Capital, Mobility, and Income Dynamics: Evidence from Indonesia"
Reno Dewina and Futoshi Yamauchi
Published in March, 2010
No.10 "Are Schooling and Roads Complementary? Evidence from Rural Indonesia"
Futoshi Yamauchi, Megumi Muto, Shyamal Chowdhury, Reno Dewina, Sony Sumaryanto
Published in March, 2010
No.9 "Conceptualizing and Measuring Ethnicity"
Graham K. Brown, Arnim Langer
Published in April, 2010
No.8 "Stability of the Market Economy in the Presence of Diverse Economic Agents"
Anjan Mukherji
Published in March, 2010
No.7 "Market, Democracy, and Diversity of Individual Preferences and Values"
Satish K. Jain
Published in March, 2010
No.6 "Diversity of Communities and Economic Development: An overview"
Gustav Ranis
Published in March, 2010
No.4 "The Role of Infrastructure in Mitigating Poverty Dynamics
―A Case Study of an Irrigation Project in Sri Lanka―"
Yasuyuki Sawada, Masahiro Shoji, Shinya Sugawara, Naoko Shinkai
Published in March, 2010
No.3 "Social Capital Formation in an Imperfect Credit Market
―Evidence from Sri Lanka―"
Masahiro Shoji, Keitaro Aoyagi, Ryuji Kasahara, Yasuyuki Sawada, Mika Ueyama
Published in March, 2010

Environment and Development / Climate Change
No.36 "State Inaction in Resource Governance: Natural Resource Control and Bureaucratic Oversight in Thailand"
Jin Sato
Published in December, 2011

Aid Strategies
No.42 "Do Community-Managed Schools Facilitate Social CapitalAccumulation? Evidence from the COGES Project in Burkina-Faso"
Yasuyuki Sawada and Takaharu Ishii
Published in March, 2012
No.41 "The Labor Market Outcomes of Two Forms of Cross-Border Higher Education Degree Programs between Malaysia and Japan"
Yoshiko Koda and Takako Yuki
Published in March, 2012
No.39 "Cross-Border Collaborative Degree Programs in East Asia:Expectations and Challenges"
Takako Yuki, Yeeyoung Hong, Kyuwon Kang, and Kazuo Kuroda
Published in March, 2012
No.34 "Assessing Effectiveness and Sustainability of Community-managed Informal Irrigation in Africa
―A Comparative Institutional Analysis of "Temporary" Irrigation in Malawi―"
Atsushi Hanatani and Mine Sato
Published in August, 2011
No.31 "Impact of Community Management on Forest Protection: Evidence from an Aid-Funded Project in Ethiopia"
Ryo Takahashi and Yasuyuki Todo
Published in July, 2011
No.30 "Impact of Farmer Field Schools on Agricultural Income and Skills: Evidence from an Aid-Funded Project in Rural Ethiopia"
Yasuyuki Todo and Ryo Takahashi
Published in May, 2011
No.29 "Cross-Border Higher Education for Labor Market Needs: Mobility of Public-Funded Malaysian Students to Japan over Years"
Yoshiko Koda, Takako Yuki and Yeeyoung Hong
Published in April, 2011
No.27 "What Makes the Bangladesh Local Government Engineering Department (LGED) So Effective?
― Complementarity Between LGED Capacity and Donor Capacity Development Support ― "
Yasuo Fujita
Published in January, 2011
No.26 "Cross-Border Higher Education for Regional Integration:Analysis of the JICA-RI Survey on Leading Universities in East Asia"
Kazuo Kuroda, Takako Yuki, Kyuwon Kang
Published in December, 2010
No.24 "Linking Resource Users' Perceptions and Collective Action
―An Examination of Water Supply System in Southern Senegal―"
Atsushi Hanatani, Kana Fuse
Published in November, 2010
No.23 "Exploring the Causal Mechanism of Collective Action for Sustainable Resource Management
― A Comparative Analysis of Rural Water Supply Systems in Senegal ―"
Atsushi Hanatani
Published in November, 2010
No.21 "Diversity and Transformation of Aid Patterns in Asia's 'Emerging Donors'"
Hisahiro Kondoh, Takaaki Kobayashi, Hiroaki Shiga and Jin Sato
Published in October, 2010
No.2 "How Do 'Emerging' Donors Differ from 'Traditional' Donors?
―An Institutional Analysis of Foreign Aid in Cambodia―"
Jin Sato, Hiroaki Shiga, Takaaki Kobayashi, Hisahiro Kondoh
Published in March, 2010