PROJECTS
SPF Program Agenda(2006)

Russian Far East in the Asia-Pacific Region

10,500,000 yen (Self-operated/Grant Project)
The Sasakawa Peace Foundation, Economic Research Institute, Far Eastern Branch of the Russian Academy of Sciences (ERI, Russia)


The Russian Far East area has been suffering from decreasing population and economic recession partly because of poor support from the central government since the transformation of the old systems in the 1990s. Now, there are great expectations that the Russian Far East will be a resource supply center in the Pacific area involved in the development of Sakhalin and the development of pipelines from Siberia to the Pacific area, but no master plan for integrated cooperation between the Russian Far East and the Pacific area has been shown. The project aims to study possible strategies for the economic development of the Russian Far East from the viewpoint of Asian researchers.

Activities of the last year will be as follows.
  1. Russian Far East in the Asia-Pacific Region project (Grant project to ERI)
    (1) Preliminary workshop (August, 2006 in Khabarovsk)
    (2) International conference (February, 2007 in Khabarovsk)
    (3) Publication of policy proposals (March, 2007)

  2. Dispatch of Asian researchers to the preliminary workshop and international conference (Self-operated project)
    SPF will dispatch four Asian economic experts (Professor Mya Than of Chulalongkorn University, Thailand, Professor Jin Park from Korea Development Institute, Korea, Professor Satoshi Mizobata from the Institute of Economic Research, Kyoto University, and Assistant Professor Qiao Liu from School of Economics & Finance, the University of Hong Kong) to the preliminary workshop and international conference.

(Final year of a 3-year project)





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