1st Edition
State Building and Development
1. Introduction: Towards a new paradigm on state building and development, Keijiro Otsuka and Takashi Shiraishi Part I: State Building for Development 2. Was Modern Japan a Developmental State?, Osamu Saito 3. State Building, Economic Development and Democracy in Modern Japan 1868-1968, Keiichi Tsunekawa 4. Changing Fortunes: comparing state building and economic development in Indonesia, Malaysia, the Philippines, and Thailand, Takashi Shiraishi 5. The Evolution of Land Policy in African State-building, Shinichi Takeuchi Part II: State Failures and Successes 6. Land Disputes and Post-Election Violence in Kenya, Takashi Yamano and Yuki Tanaka 7. Fiscal Decentralization and Development Outcomes in India, Kaliappa Kalirajan and Keijiro Otsuka 8. An Inquiry into Corruption Norms and Development, Tetsushi Sonobe 9. Failure and Success of Development Policies for Industrial Clusters, Keijiro Otsuka and Takashi Shiraishi 10. Success of Industrial Development Policy in the Pharmaceutical Industry in Bangladesh, Md Nurul Amin and Tetsushi Sonobe
Biography
Keijiro Otsuka is Professor of development economics at GRIPS. He had held positions at Tokyo Metropolitan University, International Rice Research Institute, International Food Policy Research Institute, and World Bank. He has been conducting a large number of comparative case studies on industrial development and agricultural development in Asia and sub-Saharan Africa.
Takashi Shiraishi currently serves as President, GRIPS (since 2011) and President, Institute of Developing Economies-JETRO (since 2007). He served as Executive Member, Council for Science and Technology Policy (CSTP), and Cabinet Office (2009-2012). He has taught at the University of Tokyo (1979-1987), Cornell University (1987-98), Kyoto University (1996-2005), and GRIPS (2005-2009).
