International Exchanges in May | Lunch Meeting | Top Seminar for Staff | Publication in May | PRI TOPICS (monthly)
(Provisional Translation)
May 27 (Monday) – 30 (Thursday): Business Trip for Interim Assessment of Myanmar’s SME Finance Phase 2 Support
The Policy Research Institute (PRI) has been conducting technical cooperation on SME Finance for the Myanma Economic Bank (MEB) in conjunction with the Japan Finance Corporation, Micro Business and Individual Unit (JFC-Micro). Recently, the PRI’s delegate made a business trip to conduct the interim assessment of the project’s phase 2 support. As part of this mission, the delegate held a meeting with MEB.
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| Meeting with MEB |
From the perspective of contributing to policy making at the Ministry of Finance, the PRI invites a broad range of experts from in and outside the organization to give lectures so that we can obtain the latest information.
The following lecture was held in May.
| May 9 (Thursday) | |
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Past, Present and Future of HTA* *HTA: Health Technology Assessment IGARASHI Ataru, Associate Professor, Yokohama City University School of Medicine; and Visiting Associate Professor, the Department of Drug Policy and Management, Graduate School of Pharmaceutical Sciences, The University of Tokyo |
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| Mr. IGARASHI Ataru |
As part of the training of executive personnel, PRI holds Top Seminars for Staff, where lecturers active in various fields are invited to speak. The following seminars were held in May.
| May 27 (Monday) | |
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Amazon as the World’s Most Advanced Strategy Maker NARUKE Makoto, Publisher of the book review site HONZ. JP |
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| Mr. NARUKE Makoto |
| May 31 (Friday) | |
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Basics of Internal Governance and Roles of Officials in light of Recent Misconduct HATTA Shinji, Emeritus Professor, Aoyama Gakuin University |
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| Mr. HATTA Shinji |
DP (Discussion Paper)
| Title/Author | Abstract |
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Sorting Out the Issues of RPA and Clerical Work Improvement Activities(PDF:615KB) ONISHI Junya, Visiting Scholar, PRI UMEDA Hiroshi, Lecturer, Faculty of Economics, Takasaki City University of Economics |
Robotic Process Automation (RPA) has been trumpeted in recent years. Accordingly, this paper overviews the outline of RPA and the like; makes comparisons between RPA and clerical work improvement activities; and draws some policy implications in the case where RPA is introduced into public administration. |
| Sorting Out the Issues of Calculating the Economic Efficiency of Projects and the Like(PDF:1041KB) ONISHI Junya, Visiting Scholar, PRI UMEDA Hiroshi, Lecturer, Faculty of Economics, Takasaki City University of Economics |
In calculating the economic efficiency of projects and the like that include capital investment, there are various calculation methods, and they are actually applied to public administration. Accordingly, this paper discusses the methodology of economic efficiency such as the NPV (net present value) method by overviewing the application status in enterprises from a bird's-eye view and somewhat examining the application to public administration. |
| Sorting Out the Issues of Useful Life(PDF:433KB) ONISHI Junya, Visiting Scholar, PRI UMEDA Hiroshi, Lecturer, Faculty of Economics, Takasaki City University of Economics |
In the field of public administration, dilapidated infrastructure assets and the like have become an issue, often leading to arguments on the useful life. Accordingly, this paper sorts out the issues of the useful life of depreciable assets and preliminarily examines the useful life of fixed assets in the field of public administration. |
| Global Imbalances and the IMF’s External Balance Assessment (EBA) Model(PDF:1225KB) UEDA Kenichi, Associate Professor, Graduate School of Economics, Faculty of Economics, The University of Tokyo HATTORI Takahiro, Researcher, Policy Research Institute |
The IMF conducts quantitative assessments of so-called global imbalances such as the skewed distribution on current balances and excessive exchange rates. Assuming that practitioners who don’t necessarily have an economics background will be its readers, this paper explains the details of the EBA model, which the IMF uses for the assessment of global imbalances, and clarifies academic studies on global imbalances. In addition, it also explains about the assessments on Japan in recent years. |
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