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GPI Brief no. 8 (January 2009)
| GPI Brief no. 8 (January 2009) | Table of Contents and Abstracts |
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- "Policy Institutions" Research Note
Direction of the Obama Administration’s East Asia Diplomacy.........2
Tsuneo Watanabe (GPI Policy Expert Member and Research Fellow, The Tokyo Foundation)
- Obama administration is challenged by financial/economic crisis and security crisis in
Afghanistan and Pakistan. In order to maintain stability in both economy and security in the East Asia and the world, Obama diplomacy would avoid confrontation with China in a short term. Obama transition team appointed both Japan and China experts for its East Asia team. Obama team also continues to appreciate bilateral alliance with Japan as a hedge against China’s unpredictable future. Japan should not worry about closer US-China relations too much. At the same time, Japan is required to shape its East Asian policy with its own initiative in multilateral frameworks beyond its traditional bilateral thinking on the US-Japan alliance.
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- "Globalization and Public Policy" Research Note
Global Financial Crisis and Japanese Employment Policy.........5
Erika Wada (Researcher, Peterson Institute for International Economics)
- The global economy is in the middle of financial crisis, and Japanese economy has been slowing down at the fastest pace since the World War II. Why Japanese economy is in such a bad shape despite Japanese financial institutions operate relatively better than their counterparts in the US and Europe? One of the keys for this situation can be found in Consumer Confidence Survey which shows job-loss anxiety is going up tremendously. Some argues that temporary workers should be regulated in manufacturing sector. However, in order to improve Japanese firms’competitiveness in the global economy, and to address the labor shortage in the near future, labor mobility should not be regulated. Instead, the only effective way to provide flexible working style and to reduce job-loss anxiety will be to introduce and implement equal pay for equal jobs policy.
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- "Policy Research" Note
Food Security through Systematic Data Schemes.........9
Kanichiro Matsumura (Associate Professor of Policy Studies, Kwansei Gakuin University)
- The progress of Information Technology and Internet Networks provide useful information on the global demand and supply for food. The demand for food is a function of income and price, and the supply for food is a function of yield and cultivated land. The yield is influenced by precipitation, temperature, and soil conditions. Cultivated areas are influenced by urban expansion and human activities. Combining these different kinds of data systematically will help us to understand the demand and supply structure for food at the global level. Thus, future prospects of food price may be possible, which will lead to establishing food security system.
- Essay
- Pursuing Maximum Development Impact through Private-Public Partnerships.........15
Yasuko Fumuro (Vice President for Public Relations, Microfinance International Corporation) |
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