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To participate effectively in the formation of international trends in development and international cooperation, the JICA Ogata Research Institute is actively engaged in intellectual partnership with internationally influential research institutions and in the construction of research networks. We are also cooperating in many other ways, including co-hosting seminars and exchanges among researchers.

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Joint Study with Brookings Institution on "Nature and People"

Preserving nature and enhancing its contribution to human well-being are explicitly recognized in the SDGs, notably through Goals 14 and 15. The 2022 Kunming-Montreal biodiversity framework set updated targets for 2030 while the 2024 UN-CBD COP16 in Colombia and Brazil-hosted G20 deepened policy understanding of key issues. But nature and nature-based solutions, and the impact they have on people, are still not adequately integrated into sustainable development policies and processes.

Research Term|2025年06月16日〜2027年05月15日

Enhancing Human Security and Promoting Growth and Development through a Just Green Transition (Sixth Joint Research Project with Initiative for Policy Dialogue at Columbia University)

The Green Transition is becoming increasingly important as global warming continues. The term "green transition" refers to efforts to shift from an industrial and social structure based on fossil energy sources such as coal, oil and natural gas to one based on clean energy sources such as solar and wind power. Although the green transition is not inherently opposed to growth, it is not always easy to reconcile them, due to the existence of market failures and the absence of appropriate capital and risk exchange markets, based on traditional market-oriented thinking.

Research Term|2025年03月01日〜2028年03月31日

Joint Study with Brookings Institution on "For the World’s Profit: How Business Can Support Sustainable Development"

The likelihood of achievement of the Sustainable Development Goals (SDCs) by 2030 rests on how innovative technologies, in addition to current ones, could drive rapid change and offer breakthroughs in tackling the development challenges. New technologies should be simple and low-cost if adopted and deployed in low-income countries. The study is jointly conducted with the Brookings Institution and will focus on technologies that can be introduced soon and could be easily replicated across the world. The following ten themes were selected to prepare proposals to adopt new technologies to achieve SDGs. The research will be published in the form of an edited volume which is targeted at policymakers as well as wide range of readers who have interests in the achievement of the SDGs.

Research Term|2023年03月08日〜2025年03月31日

Joint Study with Brookings Institution on "Breakthrough: The Promise of Frontier Technologies for Sustainable Development"

Research Term|2020年03月15日〜2022年03月31日

Employment: The Impact of Global Changes in Industrial Structure and Demographics (Fifth Joint Research Project with IPD)

There is growing concern around global employment trends. Population growth will increase labor force supply but whether job creation that meets this can actually follow needs to be closely watched. In particular, in Africa, exponential growth in labor force is forecasted; according to a medium-range projection by the United Nations, the global increase of working age population is expected to be around 1.5 billion between 2010 and 2050, of which 1 billion is expected to take place in Africa. The key challenge here is whether inclusive growth that absorbs this increase in labor force can be realized. Meanwhile in South Asia, the rate of job growth has become slower than that of economic growth. A situation like this is often called jobless growth. Moreover, how employment around the world will be affected by factors such as advancements in robotics and artificial intelligence (AI) technologies, changes in economic structure and supply chains following the COVID-19 pandemic, and the transition to green economy, is yet to be fully understood.

Research Term|2020年02月28日〜2024年03月31日

Joint Research with the Brookings Institution on 'Leave No One Behind,' Addressing a Central Promise of the SDGs

The JICA Research Institute (JICA-RI) and the Brookings Institution have been conducting joint research on effective aid since 2010 and have published four books. (See "Research Outcome" at the bottom.)

Research Term|2018年12月01日〜2020年03月31日

From Summits to Solutions: Innovations in Implementing the Sustainable Development Goals(The Brookings Institution and JICA-RI collaborative Research)

After a year of summits and consensus building during 2015, attention is turning to implementation of the ambitious pledges by United Nations (UN) member states under the auspices of "Agenda 2030." The oft-repeated refrain "business-as-usual will not suffice" has not yet been replaced with a positive agenda of what needs to be done under a global framework of voluntary commitments to achieve the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs).

Research Term|2016年08月01日〜2018年09月30日

JICA-RI/GDN Joint Research Project "Quality and Productivity Improvement in the private and public sectors – Roles and Lessons from Kaizen Approaches"

The fact that the low income countries fail to attain sustainable growth is attributed to the low productivity due to the low quality of workers’ skills and poor management capacity. Especially, in those countries, the weak management capacity in the private sector prevents productivity improvement.

Research Term|2016年04月22日〜2020年03月31日

Quality Growth in Africa (IPD)

In the words of the Stiglitz-Sen-Fitoussi Report of the Commission on the Measurement of Economic Performance and Social Progress "GDP is an inadequate metric to gauge well-being ..... particularly in its economic, environmental and social dimensions". The Report calls for greater focus on broader measures of social progress. Amongst these, those of particular relevance to Sub-Saharan Africa (hereinafter Africa) are sustainability; employment; inequality, the quality of health and education and insecurity and resilience in both physical and economic terms. The Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) adopted in 2015 similarly focus on both growth and its quality in these broader terms.
In this research, the task force formulated between the Initiative for Policy Dialogue (IPD) at Columbia University and Japan International Cooperation Agency (JICA) will produce several academic papers on the quality of growth and the sustainable development goals in Africa. The tentative list of topics to be covered include placing inequality in Africa in the global context and the debate on rising inequality; the impact of global rules on inequality as well as other aspects of the quality of growth (e.g. of trade and investment agreements and taxation of multinational corporations); on measurement of wider social well-being than that captured in GDP; on employment; on monitoring and implementation of the SDGs; on environmental sustainability including financing of dealing with climate change.

Research Term|2016年03月31日〜2019年11月30日

CSIS-JICA Joint Research Project on Transformative Innovation for Sustainable Development and Poverty Reduction

The Center for Strategic and International Studies (CSIS)and JICA Research Institute (JICA-RI) launched a two-year joint research project on transformative innovation in the summer of 2015. The past few years have seen the emergence of new industries and exploding technologies that are transforming the world. They are also changing the context for international development. In line with the fourth industrial revolution, "transformative innovation" refers to system-level innovation that shifts the existing system toward a totally new and sustainable way of operating.the Japanese government reinforced the importance of the technology innovation on the new development cooperation charter. For its part, the United States has also emphasized innovation through efforts. In the first year of the project, CSIS and JICA-RI identified two locations, the Philippines and Indonesia, for case studies and have explored the potential of transformative innovation for international development.

Research Term|2015年07月01日〜2017年07月31日

Joint Research on Transforming Africa's Agriculture (ACET)

Agricultural productivity in Africa is about one third of comparable Asian small holder farmers. Many factors affect agriculture productivity and these differ by product and by country. In an attempt to find lasting solutions to help remedy the low productivity and kickstart the transformation of the agricultural sector, this joint collaborative research between JICA and ACET aims at providing practical policy recommendations for transforming African economies. This joint research commissioned six studies to produce an overall review to feed into the chapters of the "African Transformation Report 2016/2017 (ATR 2016/2017)"by ACET.

Research Term|2015年06月01日〜2016年03月31日

Joint Research for Global Emerging Markets Forum 2015 (EMF)

The emerging markets’ rapid rise in the global economy is somehow inevitable, the traditional boundaries between developed and developing countries will continue to be blurred. while the prerequisites and strategies for the emerging economies to continue rapid development and permit the majority of the countries to avoid the middle-income trap would be similar, the specifics would vary significantly between countries. In 2005, the Emerging Markets Forum was created as a not-for-profit initiative in Centennial Group Holdings. EMF is carrying out a study on the long-term development and social prospects of major regions (Asia, Latin America, Africa) and countries (India, Mexico, and Kazakhstan) and launced in internatioinal conferences. However, there is presently no single in-depth study covering developing countries as a whole without any ideological or institutional bias. So, a number of sponsors of EMF have suggested that the time has come to carry out an even more challenging study covering all emerging market economies, within a framework that covers the entire global economy.The study would offer the sugestions for the policy of emerging economies and the world economy through 2050.

Research Term|2015年05月28日〜2016年01月31日

New Perspectives to Industrial Development (IPD)

Development policy in the 1990s advocated by international financial institutions was influenced by Washington Consensus thinking. This strategy, based largely on liberalization, privatization, and price-stability, down-played, if not disregarded, the role of government in economic planning. With the exception of Asia, many developing countries adopted the view that industrial policy resulted in inefficiency and poor economic growth pervaded. Despite this negative perception, this prescription has been successfully employed in what are now some of the most vibrant emerging markets. Last few years, the necessity of structural transformation has been debated widely. Based on the changing situation, the task force formulated between the Initiative for Policy Dialogue (IPD) at Columbia University and Japan International Cooperation Agency (JICA) explores new perspectives or aspects for industrial policy, with particular attention to neglected issues. This will include regional comparison of Learning Societies as well as research on the roles expected for aid agencies and development finance in the area of industrial policies.

Research Term|2013年09月01日〜2016年03月31日