In considering Japan's future policies in the global context, it is crucial to discuss various relevant issues by inviting and incorporating opinions from around the world. This corner introduces the views of some of the world's leading researchers regarding various issues including economic policy, security and environmental problems.
The Research Institute of Economy, Trade and Industry (RIETI) has entered into a partnership with VoxEU.org, a policy portal established by the Centre for Economic Policy Research (CEPR), as a consortium member. Japanese consortium members now include RIETI and the Research Unit for Statistical and Empirical Analysis in Social Sciences (G-COE Hi-Stat). Under such cooperative relations, our selected columns will be reposted on VoxEU.org, and likewise those from VoxEU.org will be reposted in the Perspectives from Around the World feature section on the RIETI website.
Back Issues
030: June 2013
Technology and income dynamics: 1800-2000
Diego COMIN
(Associate Professor of Business Administration, HBS)
Martí MESTIERI
(Assistant Professor, Toulouse School of Economics)
029: May 2013
Japan's Growth Strategy and the World Economy
Dale W. JORGENSON
(Samuel W. Morris University Professor, Harvard University)
028: April 2013
A Multi-Dimensional Partnership between Japan and France
Christian MASSET
(Ambassador of France to Japan)
027: April 2013
EU Growth and Trade Liberalisation in Asia
Hans Dietmar SCHWEISGUT
(Ambassador of the European Union to Japan)
026: April 2013
Transforming Japan's Aerospace and Defense Industry for the 21st Century
Stephen T. GANYARD
(President, Avascent International)
NAGASE Masato
(President and Founder, Global Insight Corporation)
James E. AUER
(Director, Center for U.S.-Japan Studies and Cooperation at the Vanderbilt Institute for Public Policy Studies)
025: February 2013
South Africa Moves to a Knowledge Economy
Mohau PHEKO
(South African Ambassador to Japan)
024: February 2013
Are the Nordic Countries Really Less Innovative Than the US?
Mika MALIRANTA
(Research Supervisor at the Research Institute of the Finnish Economy (ETLA))
Niku MÄÄTTÄNEN
(Research Director at ETLA)
Vesa VIHRIÄLÄ
(Managing Director at ETLA)
023: January 2013
Entering the Uncharted Territory
Iwan J. AZIS
(Head, Office of Regional Economic Integration (OREI), Asian Development Bank (ADB), and Professor, Cornell University)
022: December 2012
Changing Trends and Future Challenges Facing China's Employment Situation
CAI Fang
(Professor and Director of Institute of Population and Labor Economics, Chinese Academy of Social Sciences (CASS))
021: December 2012
Japan as an External Creditor and Internal Debtor: Are These Positions Sustainable?
Rolf J. LANGHAMMER
(Professor, Kiel Institute for the World Economy)
020: September 2012
The Doomsday Cycle Turns: Who's Next?
Peter BOONE
(Research Associate, Centre for Economic Performance, LSE)
Simon JOHNSON
(Professor of Entrepreneurship, Sloan School of Management, MIT and CEPR Research Fellow)
019: July 2012
Don't Count on Enhanced Global Governance
Jeffry A. FRIEDEN
(Professor at Harvard University's Department of Government)
Michael PETTIS
(Senior Associate, Carnegie Endowment for International Peace; Finance Professor, Guanghua School of Management at Peking University)
Dani RODRIK
(Rafiq Hariri Professor of International Political Economy at the John F. Kennedy School of Government.)
Ernest ZEDILLO
(Director of the Yale Center for the Study of Globalization, ex-President of Mexico)
018: July 2012
Hidden Champions of the 21st Century
Hermann SIMON
(Chairman, Simon-Kucher & Partners)
017: July 2012
New preface to Charles Kindleberger, The World in Depression 1929-1939
Barry EICHENGREEN
(Professor of Economics and Political Science at the University of California, Berkeley; and formerly Senior Policy Advisor at the International Monetary Fund. CEPR Research Fellow)
J. Bradford DELONG
(Professor in the Department of Economics at U.C. Berkeley)
016: June 2012
The Sun Goddess! Please Never Turn Back Again!
HAMADA Koichi
(Tuntex Professor of Economics, Yale University)
015: June 2012
The next steps in ASEAN+3 monetary integration
Pradumna B. RANA
(Associate Professor at the S, Rajaratnam School of International Studies, Nanyang Technological University)
014: June 2012
21st Century Trade and the 21st Century WTO
Richard BALDWIN
(Professor of International Economics, Graduate Institute, Geneva, CEPR Policy Director, and VoxEU.org Editor-in-Chief)
013: May 2012
A new eReport: Excessive risk-taking by banks
Richard BALDWIN
(Professor of International Economics, Graduate Institute, Geneva, CEPR Policy Director, and VoxEU.org Editor-in-Chief)
012: February 2012
The German Path to the Energy of the Future: Reliable, affordable, and environmentally sound
Volker STANZEL
(German Ambassador to Japan)
011: January 2012
The Rise of Developing Asia and the New World Order
Dale W. JORGENSON
(Samuel W. Morris University Professor, Harvard University)
010: December 2011
Innovation and Entrepreneurship as Keys to Revival After 3/11
John V. ROOS
(U.S. Ambassador to Japan)
009: October 2011
Japan's Other Deficit: A Deficit in political leadership
Daniel I. OKIMOTO
(Professor Emeritus, Stanford University)
008: October 2011
Internationalization of the Renminbi: What does history tell us about the precedents?
Jeffrey FRANKEL
(Harpel Professor, Harvard Kennedy School)
007: September 2011
Eurozone's Malaise: Is there a way out?
Salvatore ZECCHINI
(Professor of International Economic Policy at University of Rome "Tor Vergata" and Chair of the OECD WPSMEE and its Steering Group)
006: September 2011
Tommy KOH
(Co-Chairman, Japan-Singapore Symposium)
005: July 2011
Securing a Future Energy Supply in a Sustainable Manner
TANAKA Nobuo
(Executive Director, International Energy Agency)
004: July 2011
Pier Carlo PADOAN
(Deputy Secretary-General and Chief Economist, OECD)
003: June 2011
Scale Startups: Meeting the growth challenge in developed economies after the recession
Robert E. LITAN
(Vice President for Research and Policy at the Ewing Marion Kauffman Foundation)
002: June 2010
When Other Countries Have the Money
Stephen S. COHEN
(Professor, Regional Planning, University of California at Berkeley / Co-Director, Berkeley Roundtable on the International Economy (BRIE))
001: June 2010
U.S.-Japan Alliance: Present and Future
Joseph S. NYE Jr.
(Sultan of Oman Professor of International Relations, Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University)