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Policy
Mission to Myanmar
(Dec.2019)
GDF and JICA
visited Myanmar to study automotive, SEZ and garment policies. The
results will be reported to the Ethiopian government in the next
industrial policy dialogue session as part of Ethiopia's policy
learning. Myanmar is ahead of Ethiopia in attracting Japanese FDI,
automobile policy, drafting economic laws and soft and hard support at
Thilawa SEZ. However, power supply and logistics need upgrading. Myanmar
also differs from Ethiopia and Vietnam in high willingness to accept
Japanese policy advice.
Myanmar Mission Report
(translated from the Japanese text)
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34th Ethiopia Mission Report
(Dec. 2019) GDF conducted a small mission in Ethiopia in October. We
had a discussion with higher officials about Homegrown Economic Reform
Agenda, Ethiopia's new automotive policy, etc.
34th Ethiopia Mission Report
(Japanese text only)
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Ethiopian Productivity
and Automotive Policy
(Aug. 2019) GDF conducted another policy mission to
Ethiopia during Aug. 5-9. The main themes were the second workshop on
the Ethiopian Productivity Report which GDF and PSI, the government
think tank, were preparing; and advice on the new automotive policy
Ethiopia was beginning to formulate.
Ethiopia will draft the next five-year plan and ten-year perspective in
coming months, to which Japanese intellectual inputs must contribute.
33rd Ethiopia Mission Report (Japanese text
only)
Presentation materials
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How Nations Learn
 (July
2019) K.Ohno (GRIPS) and
A.Oqubay (Ethiopian minister at PM Office) published an edited volume,
How Nations Learn: Technological Learning, Industrial Policy and
Catch-up (OUP, 2019). Renowned researchers examine key features of
successful industrialization, state's role in catch-up and innovation,
and cases from Asia, Africa and Latin America with particular emphasis
on HOW policies are executed. This book is another offshoot from the
Ethiopia-Japan Industrial Policy Dialogue.
Book Website (Oxford University Press)
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32nd Ethiopia Mission
Report
(Jun. 2019) GRIPS Development Forum conducted a small
mission in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia during May 27-June 1. The main
objective of this mission was to engage in substantive discussion with
the three key groups (PM office, Ministry of Finance (MOF),
Ethiopia Investment Commission (EIC)). We also had a meeting with Mr. Teka,
the new state minister of the Ministry of Trade and Industry (MOTI), as
the forth key person. Automotive policy was given highest attention by
the key groups among three issues we proposed (automotive, industrial
parks, and productivity report/mindset). We will pursue this topic in
coming months.
32nd Ethiopia Mission Report
(Japanese version only) (revised on
June 21)
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31st Ethiopia Mission
Report
(Mar. 2019) GRIPS Development Forum and JICA visited
Ethiopia during Feb. 18-23 to hold several discussions with key persons of
the new Ethiopian government in charge of development policy.
Additionally, an automotive industry seminar was held in collaboration with
the Ministry of Trade and Industry and the
Development Policy Forum was organized to report the progress of
bilateral Ethiopian productivity research in cooperation with Policy Studies Institute,
a newly merged government think tank.
We also visited Djibouti during Feb. 24-27 to
study its industrial policy and logistic issues between Ethiopia and Djibouti.
31st Ethiopia Mission Report
(Japanese version only)
Presentation materials
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30th Ethiopia
Mission Report
(Mar. 2019) GRIPS
Development Forum conducted a small mission in Ethiopia from Dec. 1st to
7th, 2018. We visited Mekkelle together with Ethiopian researchers from
Policy Studies Institute to conduct a field survey of Ethiopian
garment industry.
We also conducted several discussions with new high-level officials and
Ethiopian organization and factories in Addis Ababa.
30th Ethiopian Mission Report
(Japanese version only)
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