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191: Estimating Social Infrastructure Demand: The Case of Japan

Fumiaki Ishizuka, Tsuyoshi Hara, Yu Namba and Koki Hirota

190: Willingness to Pay for Mortality Risk Reduction from Air Quality Improvement: Evidence from Urban Bangladesh

Minhaj Mahmud, Yasuyuki Sawada and Eiji Yamada

189: Effects on Consumer Attitudes of Appeal Information of Ethical Products

Akiko Masuda, Hiroaki Ishii and Naoto Onzo

188: Second Chance Education in Northern Uganda: Pathways and Motivation

Marion MacLellan

187: A Second Chance for Education: Examining the Roles of Education in Conflict and Peace based on Life Stories from Bosnia and Herzegovina

Mari Katayanagi

186: Humanitarian Crises and the Rise of the Rest: The Future of Humanitarianism from the Perspective of Four Latin American Emerging Countries

Oscar A. Gomez

185: Currency Choice in Domestic Transactions by Cambodian Households: The Importance of Transaction Size and Network Externalities

Ken Odajima, Daiju Aiba and Vouthy Khou

184: Japan’s Foreign Aid and ‘Quality’ Infrastructure Projects: The Case of the Bullet Train in India

Purnendra Jain

183: Determinants of the EIA Report Quality for Development Cooperation Projects: Effects of Alternatives and Public Involvement

Tetsuya Kamijo and Guangwei Huang

182: Second-chance Education in Post-conflict Timor-Leste: Youth and Adult Learners’ Motives, Experiences and Circumstances

Taro Komatsu

181: The Impact of Migration and Remittances on Labor Supply in Tajikistan

Enerelt Murakami, Eiji Yamada and Erica Sioson

180: Variety of Middle-Income Donors: Comparing Foreign Aid Approaches by Thailand and Indonesia

Jin Sato and Awidya Santikajaya

179: Critical Factors for Success among Social Enterprises in India

Katsuo Matsumoto

178: Does Social Capital Encourage Disaster Evacuation? Evidence from a Cyclone in Bangladesh

Masahiro Shoji and Akira Murata

177: Mainstreaming Biodiversity in Development Cooperation Projects through the Application of Mitigation Hierarchy and Green Infrastructure Approaches

Tetsuya Kamijo

176: Capacity Development in Environmental Management Administration through Raising Public Awareness: A Case Study in Algeria

Mitsuo Yoshida

175: Sexual Exploitation of Trafficked Children: Evidence from Bangladesh

Masahiro Shoji and Kenmei Tsubota

174: Spillovers as a Driver to Reduce Ex-post Inequality Generated by Randomized Experiments: Evidence from an Agricultural Training Intervention

Kazushi Takahashi, Yukichi Mano and Keijiro Otsuka

173: Impacts of Kaizen Management on Workers: Evidence from Central America and the Caribbean Region

Go Shimada and Tetsushi Sonobe

172: Managing International Cooperation Projects for Organizational Capacity Development: A Design-Focused Case Study of the Egypt-Japan University of Science and Technology

Michael Barzelay, Masakatsu Okumoto and Hideki Watanabe

171: Managing Safety and Security Management for International Volunteers: A Case Study of Japan Overseas Cooperation Volunteers in Colombia during the War on Drugs

Kumiko Kawachi

170: Japan’s Experience of Creating Innovation for Smart Cities: Implications for Public Policy for Urban Sustainability

Masaru Yarime

169: A ‘Local’ Response to Peacebuilding Efforts in Timor-Leste

Yukako Sakabe Tanaka

168: Managing Were the Adverse Effects of Disability on Employment Mitigated during 2002-2015 in South Africa?: A Pseudo-Panel Approach

Kengo Igei

167: Stagnation of Integration in Aid Administration in South Africa―Choices Between Norms, Interests and Power Balance―

Hisahiro Kondo

166: Enlightening Communities and Parents for Improving Student Learning Evidence from Randomized Experiment in Niger

Eiji Koazuka

165: Inverse J-Shaped Relationship between Fertility and Gender Equality: Different Relationships of the Two Variables According to Income Levels

Yoko Nakagaki

164: Measuring the Competencies of International Volunteers: Key Competencies of the Japan Overseas Cooperation Volunteers and their Perceived Achievements and Outcomes

Mayuko Onuki

163: Managing Technical Efficiency of Public and Private Hospitals in Vietnam: Do Market-Oriented Policies Matter?

Hideaki Kitaki

162: The Hearts, Minds, and Sentiments: The Volunteers Program in the Immunization Program in Bangladesh and the Chagas Diseases Control Project of Honduras

Naoko Ueada

161: Long-term and Spillover Effects of Rice Production Training in Uganda

Yoko Kijima

160: Determinants of Firms’ Capital Structure Decisions in Highly Dollarized Economies: Evidence from Cambodia

Hidenobu Okuda and Daiju Aiba

159: Teacher and Parental Perspectives of Barriers for Inclusive and Quality Education in Mongolia

Kameyama Yuriko, Kuroda Kazuo, Utsumi Yuji and Hosoi Yuka

158: What Motivates Japan’s International Volunteers? Categorizing Japan Overseas Cooperation Volunteers (JOCVs)

Okabe Yasunobu, Shiratori Sakiko and Suda Kazuya

157: Contract Farming, Farm Mechanization, and Agricultural Intensification: The Case of Rice Farming in Cote d’Ivoire

Yukichi Y., Yukichi Mano, Kazushi Takahashi and Keijiro Otsuka

156: Individualized Self-learning Program to Improve Primary Education: Evidence from a Randomized Field Experiment in Bangladesh

Yasuyuki Sawada, Minhaj Mahmud, Seki Mai, Le An and Kawarazaki Hikaru

155: A New Perspective on Conflict Resolution in Asia: Integration of Peace and Development for the Philippines

Ishikawa Sachiko

154: Women Empowerment in Bangladesh: Household Decisions under Development of Non-Farm Sectors and Microfinance Institutions

Minhaj Mahmud, Keijiro Otsuka, Yasuyuki Sawada, Mari Tanaka and Tanaka Tomomi

153: Impact of Universal Primary Education Policy on Out of School Children in Uganda

Kamal Lamichhane and Takahiro Tsujimoto

152: Managing International Cooperation for Organizational Capacity Development: Setting a Conceptual Foundation for Case Study Research and its Utilization

Michael Barzelay, Masakatsu Okumoto and Hideki Watanabe

151: Breaking the Poverty Trap: A Psychological Framework for Facilitating Autonomous Motivation and Sustainable Behavioral Change in Development Aid Beneficiaries

Nobuo R. Sayanagi

150: Policy Measures for Mitigating Fine Particle Pollution in Korea and Suggestions for Expediting International Dialogue in East Asia

Changsub Shim

149: The Discourse of Japanese Development Assistance and the Scaling-up of Community-based Health Planning and Services (CHPS) in Ghana

Kweku Ampiah

148: Implications for Teacher Training and Support for Inclusive Education in Cambodia: An Empirical Case Study in a Developing Country

Kazuo Kuroda, Diana Kartika and Yuto Kitamura

147: Can Efficient Provision of Business Development Services Bring Better Results for SMEs?: Evidence from a Networking Project in Thailand

Aya Suzuki and Kengo Igei

146: The Evolving Life Improvement Approach: From Home Taylorism to JICA Tsukuba, and Beyond

Tomomi Kozaki and Yusuke Nakamura

145: A Comparative Study of Urban Air Quality in Megacities in Mexico and Japan: Based on Japan-Mexico Joint Research Project on Formation Mechanism of Ozone, VOCs and PM2.5, and Proposal of Countermeasure Scenario

Shinji Wakamatsu, Isao Kanda, Yukiyo Okazaki, Masahiko Saito, Mitsuhiro Yamamoto, Takuro Watanabe, Tsuneaki Maeda and Akira Mizohata

144: Focusing on the Quality of EIS to Solve the Constraints on EIA Systems in Developing Countries: A Literature Review

Tetsuya Kamijo and Guangwei Huang

143: Foreign Currency Borrowing and Risk-Hedging Behavior: Evidence from a Household Survey in Cambodia

Daiju Aiba, Ken Odajima and Vouthy Khou

142: Untangling Disability and Poverty: A Matching Approach Using Large-scale Data in South Africa

Kengo Igei