Seminars & Events
APL (Ajiken Power Lunch)
APL (Ajiken Power Lunch) is a lunchtime workshop open to public, including IDE staffs, visiting research fellows, IDEAS students, outside researchers and graduate students. This workshop provides a platform for presentation of any work in progress where we can discuss in either English or Japanese.
Please have a contact with APL organizers by email in advance (contact information is shown in the bottom of this page), if you would like to present your work or attend a seminar.
Please have a contact with APL organizers by email in advance (contact information is shown in the bottom of this page), if you would like to present your work or attend a seminar.
Contact:
Institute of Developing Economies, APL OrganizersKenmei Tsubota E-mail：kenmei_tsubota  Yoshihiro Hashiguchi E-mail:yoshihiro_hashiguchi
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| Date | Speaker | Theme |
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| May 29, 2012 (Tuesday) | Hongman JIN (Division Chief of the Trade Statistics Division. Statistics Department of the General Administration of Customs of China, GACC) |
China’s Practice on measuring goods for inward processing |
| April 26, 2012 (Thursday) | Akira Shibanuma (National Graduate Institute for Policy Studies) | Improving SMEs’ management and performance through KAIZEN Impacts of teaching KAIZEN and non-KAIZEN practices to manufacturing SMEs in Ethiopia |
| April 20, 2012 (Friday) | Dr LEONG Yueh-Kwong (Director and Senior Fellow, Penang Institute, Malaysia) | The Institutional Framework for Sustainable Development in Malaysia: Rhetoric and Reality |
| April 19, 2012 (Thursday) | KAM Suan Pheng (Senior Scientist, WorldFish Center, Penang, Malaysia) | Aquaculture and Adaptation to Climate Change: The Mekong River Delta of Vietnam |
| April 12, 2012 (Thursday) | Hisaki KONO | Lending maturity of microcredit and dependence on moneylenders |
| April 11, 2012 (Wednesday) | Yuya KUDO （Development Studies Center） | Women's Marriage Migration as Old Age Insurance: Evidence from a Land Tenure Policy in Rural Tanzania |
| March 21, 2012 (Wednesday) | Tomohiko Inui (Cabinet Office, Government of Japan) | Overseas R&D and Performance Abroad: Evidence from Japanese Multinational Firms |
| March 15, 2012 (Thursday) | Jose Antonio Puppim de Oliveira (Assistant Director and Senior Research Fellow, the United Nations University Institute of Advanced Studies (UNU-IAS) ) |
Social and Environmental Upgrading of Clusters and Small Enterprises in Developing Countries |
| February 13, 2012 (Monday) | Kamal Vatta (Agricultural Economist, Punjab Agricultural University) | Rural Non-Farm Employment and Income: Evidence from Indian Punjab |
| February 9, 2012 (Thursday) | Neantro Saavedra-Rivano （Vice-Director, The Program in Economics and Public Policy Management, University of Tsukuba; Associate Researcher, University of Brasilia） |
Development and the Financing of Human Capital |
| January 30, 2012 (Monday) | Bum-Hoan KIM （Professor, Department of Electronic Commerce, Paichai University in Korea) | A further Step towards the common methodology for the comparable economic effect between various R&D programs |
| January 26, 2012 (Thursday) | Yohei Okawa （PhD candidate, University of Virginia） | International Portfolio Choice: Theory, Empirics and Computation |
| December, 15, 2011 (Thursday) | Liu Hong, Dean (Professor of School of Humanities and Social Sciences, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore) | From Mao to Confucius: China Builds Soft Power in Southeast Asia |
| December, 6, 2011 (Tuesday) | Jonathan Morduch（Professor of Public Policy and Economics, NYU Wagner Graduate School of Public Service） | Behavioral Foundations of Microcredit: Experimental and Survey Evidence from Rural India |
| November, 24, 2011 (Thursday) | Wu Xiao An (Professor, Peking University) | Historical linkage and political connection: commemoration and representation of Sun Yat-Sen and the 1911 revolution in China and Southeast Asia, 1946–2010 |
| November, 11, 2011 (Friday) | Benedict R. O’G. Anderson (Aaron L. Binenkorb Professor of International Studies, Emeritus, Cornell University） | Thinking ahead and noticing absences |
| November, 10, 2011 (Thursday) | Yuka KODAMA （Area Study Centre） | Young women’s economic lives in rural Ethiopia: methodology and brief results review |
| October, 27, 2011 (Thursday) | Masami IMAI (Associate Professor of Economics, Wesleyan University) | Economic shocks and civil conflict: evidence from the constraints of the open-economy trilemma |
| October, 11, 2011 (Tuesday) | Mariko WATANABE （Area Studies Center） | Competition of Mechanisms: How Chinese Home Electronic Appliance Firms Coped with Trade Credit Default? |
| September, 29, 2011 (Thursday) | Momoe MAKINO （South Asian Studies Group, Area Studies Center） | Effects of Birth Order and Sibling Sex Composition on Human Capital Investment in Children in India |
| August, 30, 2011 (Tuesday) | Dr. Nazmul Chowdhury (Senior Economist, The World Bank) | Giving it Back: Evaluating the Impact of Devolution of School Management to Communities in Nepal |
| August, 4, 2011 (Thursday) | Katsuo Kogure (Assistant Professor. Institute of Economic Research, Hitotsubashi) | Impacts of Forced Marriages on Child Education under the Pol Pot Regime in Cambodia |
