Tag - development

 
 

DEVELOPMENT

COMMENTARY / World
Jul 18, 2015
Making sure 'developing' countries develop
The rich world needs to commit more resources to the very poorest among us, and in smarter ways than before.
WORLD
Jul 16, 2015
World leaders strike deal on financing development
Rich and poor countries agreed on Thursday to overhaul global finance for development, unlocking money for an ambitious agenda to end extreme poverty, protect the environment and improve economic opportunity by 2030.
Japan Times
JAPAN / Politics
Jul 4, 2015
Japan, Mekong ink new ¥750 billion aid deal
Japan reveals a new three-year aid plan at the Japan-Mekong Summit to promote stability in the region and counter China's growing clout in Southeast Asia.
EDITORIALS
Jul 1, 2015
Addressing concerns with the AIIB
If Japan has concerns about the AIIB's governance and lending standards, it should try to fix the problems from the inside, not the outside.
EDITORIALS
Jun 29, 2015
Declining research capabilities
Japan's ability to create new industries will suffer if steps are not taken to bolster the nation's scientific research capabilities.
BUSINESS
Jun 28, 2015
57 countries set to sign on to China-backed investment bank AIIB
One of China's biggest foreign policy successes ever will take shape Monday when delegates from 57 countries sign an agreement on the Asian Infrastructure Investment Bank.
COMMENTARY / Japan
Jun 21, 2015
A lesson in the geopolitics of infrastructure finance
The war to compel China to abide by the U.S.-designed and controlled post-1945 liberal international economic order is well and truly lost.
COMMENTARY / World
Jun 9, 2015
Aim for green infrastructure expansion in Asia
Infrastructure projects in Asia must be accompanied by protective safeguards to avoid damaging the environment, climate and communities — and slowing economic growth.
Japan Times
LIFE / Style & Design
Jun 6, 2015
Refusing to check out of the Hotel Okura
With the iconic landmark poised to close for renovation in August, we explore its significance to the development of modernist architecture in Tokyo.
COMMENTARY / Japan
Jun 1, 2015
The AIIB key to Beijing's new economic order
China's approach to creating an infrastructure bank that will knit Asia into a Sino-centric economic order could prove to be a nightmare.
COMMENTARY / Japan
May 29, 2015
Changes to ODA Charter reflect new realities
Japan's strategy for distributing foreign aid has undergone a much-needed revamping to reflect today's realities.
COMMENTARY / World
May 26, 2015
Development finance with Chinese features?
If China can help find a way to balance the need for high standards and safeguards in project lending with the imperative of rapid loan dispersion, global economic governance would benefit significantly.
COMMENTARY / Japan
May 20, 2015
The AIIB has little to offer Japan and the U.S.
Japan is wise not to join China's Asian Infrastructure Investment Bank, which could end up merely as a policy instrument for Beijing.
COMMENTARY / World
May 18, 2015
Long-term greening of China's financial system
It is imperative that development banks make sure financing decisions nurture environmentally sustainable growth.
Japan Times
BASKETBALL / HOOP SCOOP
May 16, 2015
Nash looks back on days with Dr. J
Years before Julius Erving became the iconic Dr. J and one of basketball's all-time legends, he established a friendship with Bob Nash that has lasted for decades.
COMMENTARY / World
May 16, 2015
Life-saving drugs for all can be achieved
With the right incentives, drugmakers could be induced to develop medicines that save lives in the Third World as well as the First.
COMMENTARY / Japan
May 4, 2015
An Asian community can wait
Japan should not join the AIIB until the criteria for monitoring its investments are clear.

Longform

Visitors walk past Sou Fujimoto's Grand Ring, which has been recognized as the largest wooden structure in the world.
Can a World Expo still matter? Japan is about to find out.