Japan can meet domestic and international challenges to its aid policies by developing a coherent national strategy for official development assistance, broadly designed to enhance partnership, effectiveness, accountability, and transparency.Japan remains the world's largest national donor of...

Deregulation in the electric power industry has been aimed at promoting competition and thereby enhancing the industry's efficiency. We use the auction data of public power procurements to study the impact of the reform on the retail power market in Japan. We quantify this impact by measuring a...

Deregulation in the electric power industry has been aimed at promoting competition, thereby enhancing the industry's efficiency. We use public bidding data from procurements of electric power supply service to study the impact of the reform on the retail supply sector in Japan. We quantify this...

Deregulation in the electric power industry has been aimed at promoting competition and thereby enhancing the industry’s efficiency. We use the auction data of public power procurements to study the impact of the reform on the retail power market in Japan. We quantify this impact by measuring...

Deregulation in the electric power industry has been aimed at promoting competition and thereby enhancing the industry's efficiency. We use the auction data of public power procurements to study the impact of the reform on the retail power market in Japan. We quantify this impact by measuring a...