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September 2011- October 2010
September 2010- October 2009
September 2009- October 2008
September 2008- October 2007
September 2007- October 2006
September 2006- October 2005
September 2005- April 2003

| JICA Sponsored |
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Dr. Scott Valentine
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Assistant Professor, Assistant Director MPP/IP Program, Graduate School of Public Policy (GraSPP), The University of Tokyo
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"Strategic Environmental Management and Public Policy " |
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Dr. Yasuyuki Sawada
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Associate Professor, Graduate School of Economics,
Faculty of Economis, The University of Tokyo
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"Economics of Foreign Aid: Views from Japan and
East Asia" |
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Dr. Hoang Anh Tuan
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Vice President of the Institute for Strategic and Foreign Policy Studies, Vietnam
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"The Building of East Asian Community :
A Vietnamese Perspective" |
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Dr. Rizal Affandi Lukman
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Deputy Chairman, Coordinating Ministry for Economic Affairs
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"Indonesian Economic Development : The Role of Indonesia in the Globalized Economy" |
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Dr. Surach Tanboon
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Modeling and Forecasting Team, Monetary Policy Dept. Bank of Thailand
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"Current Issues in Macroeconomic Management: the case of Thailand" |
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Dr. Shee Poon Kim
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Visiting Professor,
Department of Global Politics and Economics, Tamkang University
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"The Political Economy of Chinafs String of Pearls Strategy" "Chinafs Energy Security and Global Economic Diplomacy" "Building an East Asian Community: who will be the leader, Japan, China, or ASEAN?"
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Ms. Than Than Lin
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Director, Foreign Economic Relations Department, Ministry of National Planning and Economic Development
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"Myanmar-Japan Economic Cooperation: Challenges and Priorites"
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Dr. Tin Maung Maung
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Senior Fellow, Institute of Southeast Asian Studies, Singapore
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"States and Good Governance in Southeast Asia"
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Dr. Sirimal Abeyratne
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Professor of Economics, Department of Economics, University of Colombo
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"Post-Conflict Development in Sri Lanka: Prospects and Challenges
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Dr. Huang Jing
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Visiting Professor, Lee Kuan Yew School of Public Policy,
National University of Singapore
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"An Asian Community: Problems and Prospects"
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Dr. Ragayah Haji Mat Zin
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Principal Research Fellow,
Institute of Malaysian & International Studies,
University Kebargsaan Malaysia
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"Malaysian Development Experience: Lessons for Other Developing Countries"
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| Special Seminars |
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Dr. Masahiro Sugiyama
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Socio-Economic Research Center, Central Research Institute of Electric Power Industry
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"Climate Change and Policy" |
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Mr. Kazuyuki Takemoto
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Surveyor
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"Nuclear Power Plants on Fragile Land" |
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Mr. Romuald Semblat
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Senior Economist, IMF Regional Office for Asia and the Pacific
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"Long-Term Fiscal Challenges in Developed Economies" |
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Mr. Katsuhiko Bando
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Attorney
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"The Error Shall Not Be Repeated" |
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Mr. Swami Sadyojathah
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The Art of Living Foundation
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"Art of Living and Inner Peace" |
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Dr. Michael R. Waschak
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Lecturer in Public Administration and Environmental Policy
Rochester Institute of Technology
American University in Kosovo
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"The Development of Environmental Policy in Kosovo: Adaptive Management in the World's Newest Country" |

| Role of Private Sector on International Development |
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| Mr. Naonobu Minato |
Acting Director, International Development
Research Institute, FASID
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"Poverty Reduction and role of private enterprises: Business opportunities for poverty market" |
| Dr. Nawalage S. Cooray |
Associate Professor, Director of
International Peace Studies Program (IPSP), IUJ
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"Bottom of the Pyramid:Potentials and Opportunities for Donors" |
| Dr. Jay Rajasekera |
Professor of Management Systems and Strategy, GSIM, IUJ
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"Who are in the Bottom of the Pyramid and What Business Models Excite Them?" |
| JICA Sponsored |
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| Mr. Lalith Lankatilleke |
Senior Human Settlements Officer, UN-HABITAT, Regional Office for Asia and the Pacific-Fukuoka |
"Rebuilding Post-Conflict and Post-Disaster Communities Adapting the People's Process" |
| Mr. Shintaro Yamaguchi |
Assistant Professor, Department of Economics of McMaster University,
Canada |
"Tasks and Heterogeneous Human Capital" |
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Mr. John Academia Atienza |
Bank Officer III, Bangko Sentral ng Pilipinas
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"Problem Bank Idetification and intervension" |
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Mr. Waleed A. Siam |
Ambassador, Palestinian Autority in Japan
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"Peace in the Middle East" |
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Dr. Pa Ngoun Teang |
Director, Cambodian Center for Independent Media and Voice of Democracy Radio
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"Cambodia: The rise of Media and Human Rights Advocacy" |
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Dr. Er-win Tan |
Professor, Univ. of Malaysia |
"The Denuclearization of the Korean Peninsular: The Six Party Talks and the Role of Japan" |
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Dr. Lee, Heejin |
Professor and Associate Dean,
Graduate School of International Studies,
Yonsei University
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"Dilemmas Facing an Emerging Donor: Challenges and Changes in South Korea's ODA" |
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President Kyung-seo Park |
Center for Peace Studies, Ewha Womans University |
"Peace/Justice & Human Rights in 21st Century" |
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Dr. Hodaka Morita |
Professor, University of New South Wales |
"Economic Analysis on Firm Relationship" |
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Dr. Suahashi Nazara | Dept. Head, Faculty of Economics, University of Indonesia
"Participatory Poverty Assessment in West Java and South Sulawesi" |
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Dr. Takeshi Daimon |
Associate Professor, Waseda University |
"Participatory Poverty Assessment in West Java and South Sulawesi" |
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Mr. Dennis Arroyo |
Director, National Economic and Development Authority Republic of the Philippines |
"Policy Reform in Asian Countries" |
| Special Seminars |
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Mr. Teng Shulong |
Beijing Association of Sustainable Development |
"Building Energy Efficiency Diagnostics" |
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Mr. Katsuhiko Bando |
Attorney |
"Rediscovery of Minamata diseas" |
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Mr. Romuald Semblat |
IMF Regional Office for Asia and the Pacific |
"The International Monetary System and the Role of the IMF" |

| Mr. Naonobu Minato |
Acting Director, International Development
Research Institute, FASID
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"Evolution of Ideas on Development and Development Assistance" |
| Dr. Nawalage S. Cooray |
Associate Professor, Director of
International Peace Studies Program (IPSP), IUJ
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"Japan's ODA: Pattern's of Determinants" |
| Dr. Keiko Watanabe |
Program Officer, International Development
Research Institute, FASID
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"Perspectives from the field: Development Assistance for Peacebuilding
of Sudan" |
| JICA Sponsored |
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| Dr. Ayako Suzuki |
Professor,Waseda University |
"Yard Stick Competition to Elicit Private Information" |
| Dr. Hodaka Morita |
Professor,University of New South Wales |
"Firm-Specific Human Capital and Its Application of Japanese" |
| Dr. S.M.P. Senanayake |
Professor,University of Colombo |
"South Asian Regional Food Security" |
| Dr. Sorpong Peou |
Professor, Sophia University |
"The Future of Security Studies in the Asia-Pacific" |
| Dr. My-Van Tranh |
Associate Professor, University of South Australia |
"Vietnam Today" |
| Dr. Iwan Azis |
Professor, Cornel University, USA and
Visiting Professor, Gakushuin University |
"Current Financial Crisis" |
| Dr. Wimal Rankaduwa |
Professor, Dept. of Economics, Univ.of Prince Edward Island in Canada |
"Effect of Defence Spending on Economic Growth:An Empirical Investigation" |
| Dr. Young-Ro Yoon |
Visiting Assistant Prof., Indiana Univ., USA |
"Strategic Disclosure of Valuable Information within Competitive Environments" |
| Special Seminars |
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| Mr. W. Michael Meserve |
Minister Counselor for Political Affairs,
U.S. Embassy Tokyo |
"U.S.-Japan Relations under the Obama Administration" |
| Ms. Yuriko TANAKA |
Chairman, Tokyo SMON Association |
"No More Smon, No More Yakugai" |
| Mr. Christopher Anthony Pitts |
Associate Prof., Kyoritsu Women's College, Tokyo
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"Human Rights and Amnesty International" |

| Special Lectures |
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| Mr. Romuald Semblat |
Senior Economist, The Regional Office for Asia and the Pacific, International Monetary Fund in Tokyo |
"The IMF Global and Regional Economics Outlook" |
| Ms. Yuriko Tanaka |
Former Secretary of the Group of Plaintiffs of SMON Suit at Tokyo District
Court and the current Chair of the Tokyo SMON Association |
"No More Yakugai SMON" |
| Mr. Kuniki Nakamori |
Resident Director General, Japanese Representative Office
, Asian Development Bank |
"Greater Mekong Subregion - For Future Connectivity" |
| Mr. Chika Kiyoichi |
A Teller of Minamata Disease |
"Minamata Disease" |
| Mr. Akira Chiba |
Director of UN Planning and Administration Division,
Ministry of Foreign Affairs |
"Japan's UN Diplomacy: Learning from the Past, Striving for the Future" |
| Dr. Ghanim Alwan Al-Jumaily |
Ambassador of Iraq to Japan |
"Iraq Past, Present and Future" |
| Ambassador Koji Tsuruoka |
Director-General for Global Issues, Ministry of Foreign Affairs |
"Climate Change: A Global Challenge" |
| JICA Sponsored |
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| Dr. Aamir Arain |
Project Manager,United Nations Development
Program, Cambodia |
"The UN Crisis" |
| Dr. Yen-Kyun Wand |
Prof. Department of Economics, Chung-Ang University in Korea |
"Flexible BBC Exchange Rate System and Exchange Rate Cooperation in East Asia" |
| Dr. Victor Larin |
Prof., Dept. of Forign Policies and International Affairs in East Asia, Director of Institute of History, Archeology, and Ethnology of the People of the Far East, Russian Academy of Sciences, Far Eastern Branch, Far Eastern National Univ. Vladivostok, Russia |
"Russia Today" |
| Dr. W. D. Lakshman |
Prof., Dept. of Economics, University of Colombo, Sri Lanka |
‡@"Limits of Neo-Liberalism as a Path to Sustainable Development: Lessons from Sri Lanka"
‡A"Ethnic Conflict in Sri Lanka:Socio-Ecomonic Policy and Ethnic Conflict Nexus and Economic Development as a Route to Peace" |
| Dr. Quansheng Zhao |
Director of Division of Comparative & Regional Studies,
School of Intl Service, American University |
"China North Korea Policy and the Japan Factor" |
| Dr. Vesselin Popovski |
Director of Studies on Intl Order and Justice, Academic Program Officer Peace and Government Program, United Nations University, Tokyo |
"Terrorism and Human Rights" |
| Mr. Satoshi Inomata |
Director, Microeconomic Analysis Group,
Development Studies Center,
Institute of Development Economies Japan
External Trade Organization (IDE-JETRO) |
"Introduction to Input-Output Analysis" |
| Dr. Tomoo Marukawa |
Associate Professor,
Institute of Social Science,
University of Tokyo |
"A Comparative Study of Japanese and Chinese Mobile Phone Industries" |
| Mr. Ligang Song |
Associate Professor, Australia National University |
"Rapid Industrialization and Market for Energy and Minerals" |
| Dr. Kohno Takeshi |
Associate Professor, National Graduate Institute for Policy Studies |
"Islam and Governance in Indonesia" |

| Special Lectures |
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| Mr. Nobuo Hayashi |
Legal Advisor at the Norwegian Centre for Human Rights, University of Oslo Law Faculty |
‡@"Politics of International Criminal Justice" ‡A"Law and Violence in Contemporary Civil Wars" ‡B"Defining the Crime of Aggression?
A Case for Going beyond Statism in Contemporary Civil Wars" |
| Mr. Iikka Korhone |
Research Supervisor, Bank of Finland |
"The Experience of Monetary Union of European Union" |
| Dr. Akira Ariyoshi |
Director of the Regional Office for Asia and the Pacific (OAP),
International Monetary Fund (IMF) |
"IMFfs Evolving Role" |
| Dr. Ross McLeod |
Senior Fellow, Indonesia project of Australia
National University |
"Governance and Growth in Indonesia" |
| Mr. E. Kwan Choi |
Prof., Dept. of Economics, Iowa State University |
"Factor Growth and Equalized Factor Prices" |
| Mr. BAAK, SaangJoon |
Associate Prof., School of International Liberal Studies, Waseda University |
"The Impact of Chinese renminbi on the exports of Korea and Japan to the US" |
| JICA Sponsored |
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Dr. Libor Jansky@ and Ms. Nevelina Pachova |
Senior Academic Programe Officer, and Program Associate,
Environment and Sustainable Development Programme,
United Nations University |
"Sustainable Land Management for Global Benefit" |
| Dr. Gene Hsin Chang |
Department of Economics,
The University of Toledo in USA |
"How much is the Chinese Currency Undervalued?@A Quantative Estimation" |
| Dr. Devyani Mani |
Human Security and
Regional Development Expert/Coordinator, Human Security Unit of United
Nations Center for Regional Development (UNCRD) in Nagoya office |
"The Human Security Concept: Its Evolution and Some Operational Issues" |

| Special Lectures |
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| Dr.Kiyoshi Taniguchi |
Economist,Asian Development Bank during lunch time |
"Introductory to Asian Development Bank:Pacific Operation" |
| Mr. Yotaro Kobayashi |
Chairman of the Board, IUJ |
"Issues of Corporate Societal Responsibility" |
| Mr. S. Pushpanathan |
Director, ASEAN plus Three |
"ASEAN's Strategy for Building East Asia Community" |
| Mr. Ranjith Uyangada |
Sri Lankan Ambassador to Japan |
"Foreign Workers in Japan: Asian Experience" |
| Mr. Masakatsu Kato |
Former Chief of the Evaluation Service, FAO |
"Agricultural and Rural Community Development" |
| Dr. David Cowen |
Waseda University |
"Escaping from the Conflict Trap: The Political Economy of Peace-Building in Afghanistan" |
| Prof. Takeshi Daimon |
Waseda University |
"Escaping from the Conflict Trap: The Political Economy of Peace-Building in Afghanistan" |
| Mr. Rajaram Panda |
Chief Program Officer
The Japan Foundation |
"Asian Economic Integration" |
| JICA Sponsored |
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| Mr. Lee, Doowon |
Prof. of Economics, Yonsei University |
"Trade Balance Effects of Koreafs FDI into China" |
| Mr. Yoji Kaneko |
Executive Director, Niigata Association of Nonprofits |
"NPO Involvement in Disaster Recovery with Special Reference to Chuetsu Earthquake Recovery" |
| Prof. Lee, Hyun-Hoon |
Kangwon National University, Korea & Keio University |
"Towards Environmentally Sustainable Economic Growth (Green Growth) in Asia and the Pacific" |
| Prof. Kiyoun SOHN |
Department of International Trade, University of Incheon, Korea |
"Does the International Trade Help to Enhance National Security?" |

| Special Lectures |
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| Mr. Sumihiro Kuyama |
Former Chairman and Inspector of Joint Inspection Unit (JIU) |
"United Nations: Challenges and Reforms" |
| Ms. Tomiko Yamaguchi |
Researcher, Office for GMO Research and Development, National Institute of Agrobiological Sciences |
"Understanding Implications of Agrifood Biotechnology: Bt Cotton Controversies in India" |
| Dr. Prema-chandra Athukorala |
Professor of Economics, Research School of Pacific and Asian Studies, Australian National University |
"International Labour Migration in East Asia: Trends, Economic Impact and Policy Issues" |
| Mr. Doddy Zulverdi |
Senior Economist, Bureau of Economic Research, Bank Indonesia |
"The Bank Intermediary Function and Undisbursed Loans Phenomenon: Causes and Policy Implications" |
| Mr. Ichiro Otani |
Economic Policy Consultant, Former Head, IMF Office in China |
‡@"Adjusting Global External Imbalances: China's Role and Its Implications for Asian countries" ‡A"Capital Controls and Interest Rate Parity: Evidences from China, 1999-2004" |
| Prof. Kal Holsti |
University of British Columbia |
"The Real Revolution in Military Affairs" |
| Prof. Hall Hill |
Professor, Australian National University |
"The Philippine's Development Puzzle" |
| Mr. Motohiro Ono |
Senior Researcher, Middle East Institute of Japan (IUJ-GSIR Class of 1989) |
"The Situation in Iraq and the Future" |
| Dr. Jungsoo Lee |
Director, Japanese Representative Office, Asian Development Bank |
"Poverty Reduction in the Asian Pacific region and the Role of ADB" |
| Prof. Fukunari Kimura |
Professor of Economics, Keio University |
"The Formation of International Production and Distribution Networks in East Asia" |
| JICA Sponsored |
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| Dr. Guanghua Wan |
Senior Research Fellow, World Institute for Development Economics Research (WIDER) |
"Globalization and Regional Income Inequality: Evidence from within China" |
| Prof. Wen S. Chern |
Department of Agricultural, Environmental, and Development Economics, The Ohio State University |
"Contingent Valuation of the Willingness to Pay for Genetically Modified Foods: A Multi-Country Analysis" |
| Prof. Matt Bonham |
Syracuse University |
"The Axis of Evil and Iran" |
| Special Seminars / Panel Discussion |
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| Panelists: Prof. Buszynski, Prof. Watantabe, Prof. Shee, Prof. Welfield, Prof. Shinoda, and Dr. Hassan (Guest Panelist) |
Panel Discussion on Iraq |
| Prof. SaangJoon Baak |
Associate Professor, IUJ (IDP Faculty Seminar) |
"Economic Factors Affecting Trade among the Asia Pacific Countries" |
| Prof. Kiyoshi Taniguchi |
Assistant Professor, IUJ (IDP Faculty Seminar) |
"Learning by Eating: a Case Study on the Cost of Hunger in Sri Lank" |
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