A paper by a former JICA Research Institute Senior Research Fellow, Mitsuaki Furukawa, who is currently at the Security Management Department in JICA, was published in the African Journal of Economic and Management Studies, Vol. 9 Issue: 4, pp. 477–491. Furukawa authored the paper titled, "General Budget Support in Tanzania: Implications of late disbursements for service delivery" based on JICA-RI Working Paper No. 48. The paper was co-authored with Junichiro Takahata, associate professor at Dokkyo University.