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 Mission
Report to South Korea
(PDF185KB revised on 20 Dec,
2010)
(December 2010) The GRIPS Development Forum, together with rsearchers
and officials from Vietnam and Ethiopia, visited South Korea from Nov.
22-26, 2010 to Study Korea's experiences in industrial development. The
mission paid special attention to: (i) economic and industrial policy
making; (ii) industrial policy tools and approaches, especially, SME promotion; and
(iii) Korea's ODA policy with focus on the recently launched "Knowledge
Sharing Program." This is one of the series of industrial policy study missions
supported by JICA (under JICA/GRIPS industrial policy dialogues with
Ethiopia), which aims at compiling useful lessons for today's developing
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ODA
Reform: Five Recommendations,
by the Multi-sectoral Task Force for the Reform of Japanese ODA (PDF528KB)
(December 2010) A multi-sectoral Task Force
composed of Japanese professionals involved in Japanese ODA gathered
voluntarily in a personal capacity, to think about Japan's ODA in a new era
and its strategic directions and institutional framework to effectively
address global challenges. Based on a series of intensive discussions during
February-June 2010 (with a total of about 300 participants), we put
together, ODA Reforms: Five Recommendations -- Moving into the 21st-century
"Development Cooperation (DC)" in June 2010. This is the English translation
of the original, Japanese publication. The activity of the Task Force aimed
at contributing to the on-going debates on ODA reforms, initiated by the
Japanese government under the DPJ (started in September 2009), from
multi-stakeholder perspectives (including political circles, the media,
NGOs, businesses, consultant firms, academia, government and
aid-implementing agencies). |
Mission
Report to Singapore
(PDF168KB)
(September 2010) The GRIPS Development Forum,
together with researchers and officials from Vietnam and Ethiopia, visited
Singapore from Aug.29 to Sep.3, 2010 to study Singapore's experiences in
productivity improvement and skills upgrading as well as organizational
aspects of industrial policy formulation and implementation. Singapore was
the first country where Japan provided comprehensive technical cooperation
(called "Productivity Development Project") in the 1980s in order to
transfer Japan's know-how in productivity improvement. Subsequently,
Singapore became quite successful in internalization, scaling up, and
institutionalization of Productivity Movement, and now it provides technical
cooperation in this area to developing countries Africa. Its experiences
should offer useful insight for developing countries which plan to introduce
similar projects. The findings of this Singapore mission were presented to
the Ethiopian authorities, under the JICA-supported industrial policy
dialogue, in which our GRIPS team participates. |
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GMF-GRIPS
Round Table “Toward a Brighter Future”
Presentation from the
Transatlantic Taskforce on Development
(25 May 2010)
GRIPS Development Forum has organized a small round table discussion with a
selected group of the Transatlantic Taskforce on Development*, with
particular focus on Food Security and Development. We welcomed the Honorable
Jim Kolbe (former US Congressman), Prof. Carol Lancaster (Georgetown Univ.)
and Mr. Max Lawson (Senior Policy Advisor, OXFAM International) from the
Taskforce, and also Mr. Junichi Hanai (Senior Advisor, Rural Development
Dept., JICA) as a discussant.
*The Transatlantic Taskforce on Development, co-chaired by the Honorable Jim
Kolbe (former US Congressman) and the Swedish Minister for International
Development, Gunilla Carlsson, launched the Taskforce report “Toward a
Brighter Future” in February 2009. In late May 2010, a selected group of
Taskforce members visited Japan and China to discuss food security and
development, one of the key challenges presented in the report.
More
information on the Transatlantic Taskforce on Development is available here:
http://www.gmfus.org/taskforce/
The Report “Toward a Brighter Future: Transatlantic Call for Renewed
Leadership and Partnerships in Global Development” is also available here;
http://www.gmfus.org/taskforce/GMF6694_Taskforce_FINAL.pdf
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