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91: Toward a Theory of Human Security

Akihiko Tanaka

90: The Impact of Training on Technology Adoption and Productivity of Rice Farming in Tanzania: Is Farmer-to-Farmer Extension Effective?

Yuko Nakano, Takuji Tsusaka, Takeshi Aida and Valerien Pede

89: Spatial vs. Social Network Effects in Risk Sharing

Takeshi Aida

88: Chains of Knowledge Creation and Emerging Donors

Yasutami Shimomura and Wang Ping

87: The Benefits of Unification Failure: Re-examining the Evolution of Economic Cooperation in Japan

Jin Sato

86: Constraints on Rice Sector Development in Mozambique

Kei Kajisa

85: An Empirical Study of the Conditions for Successful Knowledge Transfer in Training Programs

Satoru Mikami and Mitsuaki Furukawa

84: A Single-blinded Randomized Controlled Trial to Estimate the Impact of Information to Change Japanese Attitudes towards ODA

Satoru Mikami

83: Aid Fragmentation and Effectiveness for Infant and Child Mortality and Primary School Completion

Mitsuaki Furukawa

82: Management of the International Development Aid System Aid System and the Creation of Political Space for China:The Case of Tanzania

Mitsuaki Furukawa

81: Risk, Infrastructure, and Rural Market Integration: Implications of Infrastructure Provision for Food Markets and Household Consumption in Rural Indonesia

Suguru Miyazaki and Yasuharu Shimamura

80: Enhancing Rice Production in Uganda: Impact Evaluation of a Training Program and Guidebook Distribution in Uganda

Yoko Kijima

79: Interdependent Happiness:Cultural Happiness under the East Asian Cultural Mandate

Hidefumi Hitokoto

78: Estimating China’s Foreign Aid 2001-2013

Naohiro Kitano and Yukinori Harada

77: Analysis of Poverty between People with and without Disabilities in Nepal

Kamal Lamichhane, Damaru Ballabha and Diana Kartika

76: Happiness in Thailand: The Effects of Family, Health and Job Satisfaction, and the Moderating Role of Gender

Kalayanee Senasu and Anusorn Singhapakdi

75: Property Restitution and Return: Revisiting the Case of Bosnia and Herzegovina

Satoru Mikami and Mari Katayanagi

74: Effects of Transport Corridor Development on Firms’ Locational Choice and Firms’ Perception of Business Environment: A Preliminary Analysis of Transport Corridors in Mozambique

Yasuo Fujita and Asami Takeda

73: Challenges of Quality of Learning Outcomes for Countries with the Unfinished Agenda of Universal Primary Education and Gender Parity: The Case of Yemen

Takako Yuki and Yuriko Kameyama

72: Political Origins of the Japan Overseas Cooperation Volunteers, 1960–1965: Why the State Sends Young Volunteers Abroad

Yasunobu Okabe

71: To What Extent Does the Adoption of Modern Variety Increase Productivity and Income? A Case Study of the Rice Sector in Tanzania

Yuko Nakano and Kei Kajisa

70: Access to Infrastructure and Human Development:Cross-Country Evidence

Jeet Sapkota

69: Inter-Ethnic Hostility and Mobility of Political Power: Changing Influences of Perceived Horizontal Inequalities

Satoru Mikami

68: A Quantitative Study of Social Capital in the Tertiary Sector of Kobe: Has Social Capital Promoted Economic Reconstruction Since the Great Hanshin Awaji Earthquake?

Go Shimada

67: Ex-post Risk Management Among Rural Filipino Farm Households

Akira Murata and Suguru Miyazaki

66: Objectives and Institutions for Japan’s Official Development Assistance (ODA): Evolution and Challenges

Keiichi Tsunekawa

65: Does Infrastructure Facilitate Social Capital Accumulation? Evidence from Natural and Artefactual Field Experiments in a Developing Country

Keitaro Aoyagi, Yasuyuki Sawada and Masahiro Shoji

64: Is Country-system-based Aid Really Better than Project-based Aid? Evidence from Rural Water Supply Management in Uganda

Mitsuaki Furukawa and Satoru Mikami

63: Between Economic and Political Crises:Thailand’s Contested Free Trade Agreements

Thitinan Pongsudhirak

62: Achieving the Millennium Development Goals:Lessons for Post-2015 New Development Strategies

Jeet Sapkota and Sakiko Shiratori

61: Extensification and Intensification Process of Rainfed Lowland Rice Farming in Mozambique

Kei Kajisa and Ellen Payongayong

60: A Fresh Look at Capacity Development from Insiders’ Perspectives:A Case Study of an Urban Redevelopment Project in Medellín,Colombia

Mine Sato

59: How Access to Irrigation Influences Poverty and Livelihoods:A Case Study from Sri Lanka

Sonali Senaratna Sellamuttu, Takeshi Aida, Ryuji Kasahara, Yasuyuki Sawada and Deeptha Wijerathna

58: The Determinants of Technology Adoption:The Case of the Rice Sector in Tanzania

Yuko Nakano and Kei Kajisa

57: A Tale of Two Crises: Indonesia’s Political Economy

Muhamad Basri

56: Conflict Analysis in Virtual States (CAVS): A New Experimental Method Based on the Extensive Use of Multi-Agent Simulation (MAS) and Geographical Information System (GIS)

Takuto Sakamoto

55: Impact of a Shade Coffee Certification Program on Forest Conservation:A Case Study from a Wild Coffee Forest in Ethiopia

Ryo Takahashi and Yasuyuki Todo

54: Measurements and Determinants of Multifaceted Poverty:Absolute, Relative, and Subjective Poverty in Indonesia

Teguh Dartanto and Shigeru Otsubo

53: China and the Two Crises: From 1997 to 2009

Barry Naughton

52: Institutional Development of Cross-Border Higher Education:The Case of an Evolving Malaysia-Japan Project

Kazuhiro Yoshida, Takako Yuki and Nozomi Sakata

51: Financial Restructuring after the 1997 Crisis and Impact of the Lehman Shock: Path Dependence of Financial Systems in Korea and Thailand

Yasunobu Okabe

50: Is GBS Still a Preferable Aid Modality?

Mitsuaki Furukawa and Junichiro Takahata

49: Expansion of Lowland Rice Production and Constraints on a Rice Green Revolution: Evidence from Uganda

Yoko Kijima

48: General Budget Support in Tanzania Late Disbursement and Service Delivery

Mitsuaki Furukawa and Junichiro Takahata

47: Modes of Collective Action in Village Economies:Evidence from Natural and Artefactual Field Experiments in a Developing Country

Yasuyuki Sawada, Ryuji Kasahara, Aoyagi Aoyagi, Masahiro Shoji and Mika Ueyama

46: Regional Integration in East Africa Diversity or Economic Conformity

Junichi Goto

45: Success as Trap? Crisis Response And Challenges To Economic Upgrading in Export-Oriented Southeast Asia

Richard Doner

44: Unraveling the Enigma of East Asian Economic Resiliency:The Case of Taiwan

Yun-han Chu

43: 99 Problems (But A Crisis Ain’t One) Political Business and External Vulnerability in Island Southeast Asia

Thomas B. Pepinsky

42: Do Community-Managed Schools Facilitate Social Capital Accumulation? Evidence from the COGES Project in Burkina Faso

Yasuyuki Sawada and Ishii Takaharu