International Exchanges in September | Seminars and other events in September | Lunch Meeting | Publication in September | PRI TOPICS (monthly)
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| September 10 (Tuesday) – 12 (Thursday): Bookkeeping Course for Elementary Examination Level held in Lao PDR |
For the purpose of spreading the use of bookkeeping in Lao People’s Democratic Republic (Lao PDR), the Policy Research Institute (PRI), in collaboration with the Kawasaki Chamber of Commerce & Industry (KCCI) and the Lao National Chamber of Commerce and Industry (LNCCI), held a bookkeeping course for the elementary examination level in Vientiane, Lao PDR. The course, based on the Japanese elementary examination conducted by The Japan Chamber of Commerce and Industry, was held with 39 participants, including enterprise executives, managers and staff as well as government officers. Certificates of course completion were issued to 21 participants who passed the examination prepared by the organizers on the last day of the course.
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| Group photo of the participants | Closing ceremony |
| 〇 Leading-Edge Seminar |
The PRI has been holding the Leading-Edge Seminar series of lectures, in which frontline researchers give lectures on leading-edge research within the academic community or of their own.
The following lecture was held in September.
| September 10 (Tuesday) | |
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The Natural Level of Capital Flows Professor Francis Warnock (University of Virginia-Darden and NBER) Professor Veronica Warnock (University of Virginia-Darden) |
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| Professor Francis Warnock | Professor Veronica Warnock |
PRI invites a broad range of experts in and outside the organization to hear leading-edge information so that we can obtain useful information contributing to the MOF’s policy planning.
The following lectures were held in September.
| September 4 (Wednesday) | |
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Keeping Watch on FRB, ECB and BOJ under Sudden Changes in the World Situation KATO Izuru (President and Chief Economist, The Totan Research Co., Ltd.) |
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| Mr. KATO Izuru |
| September 13 (Friday) | |
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MaaS: The Current Situation and Future Prospects INOUE Takekazu (Senior Specialist, Center for the Strategy of Emergence, The Japan Research Institute, Limited) |
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| Mr. INOUE Takekazu |
Financial Review
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| No. 3 of 2019 (No. 138 [consecutive]) Special Edition: “The Latest Update on FinTech” |
This special issue explores the accelerating trend of promoting FinTech research with the involvement of central banks and regulatory agencies worldwide, and covers FinTech’s macro perspective, the latest updates in both the forerunner U.S. and Japan, AI operations, as well as online alternative finance, from theoretical and empirical perspectives. |
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