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The Japan External Trade Organization (JETRO) is a government-related organization that works to promote mutual trade and investment between Japan and the rest of the world. Originally established in 1958 to promote Japanese exports abroad, its core focus in the 21st century has shifted to promoting foreign direct investment into Japan and ...
1984, joined the Ministry of International Trade and Industry (MITI); 1999-2001, Director, Information Disclosure Promotion Office, Minister's Secretariat, MITI; 2001-04, Director-General, JETRO, New York Office; 2004-06, Director, Commerce Policy Division, Commerce and Information Policy Bureau, Ministry of Economy, Trade and Industry (METI); 2006-10, Director-General, Canon; 2010-11 ...
October 2015, became President, JETRO. LLB, University of Tokyo; attended the International Career Associates Program, School of International Relations and Pacific Studies (IR/PS), University of California, San Diego. 1987, began government service, Ministry of International Trade and Industry (MITI, later METI after 2001).
The plan, known as PDP8, will require $134.7 billion of funding for new power plants and grids. Offshore wind power capacity is expected to reach six GW by the end of this decade and at least 70 GW by 2050. Vietnam said on Tuesday it has approved a long-awaited power plan for this decade, in a move meant to boost wind energy and gas, while ...
Geethanjali Nataraj is a Visiting Fellow at Bruegel. She is an economist with more than 19 years of research experience in international trade issues and trade policy of India and other developing economies. She is also a senior visiting fellow to Observer Research Foundation, New Delhi. She has carried out research on foreign direct investment issues, regional trading agreements ...
Global Gender Gap Report 2018. This year’s edition of the report benchmarks 149 countries on their progress towards gender parity on a scale from 0 (disparity) to 1 (parity) across four thematic dimensions—the subindexes Economic Participation and Opportunity, Educational Attainment, Health and Survival, and Political Empowerment—and ...
Kazumi Nishikawa. Director, Healthcare Industries Division, METI (Ministry of Economy Trade and Industry) of Japan. Member of the Global Future Council for Human Enhancement and Longevity, World Economic Forum. Prior to current appointment, held various positions in METI over a period of 23 years, including Director for Trade Strategy to cover ...
The G7 summit 2021 in the UK ended with pledges on COVID-19, tax and the environment. A promised billion doses of COVID-19 vaccine was described by some as too little. But President Joe Biden said the summit had been "extraordinarily collaborative". The Group of Seven (G7) advanced economies met in Cornwall, UK in June 2021.
Today, the Global Gender Gap score stands at 68%. 12 This means that, on average, there is still a 32% gap to close. Figure 1 shows the distribution of this gap across all 149 countries covered by this year’s report. It highlights how the gap is still large across most of the 149 countries assessed. To date, no country has achieved parity ...
Green hydrogen is generally assumed to be more expensive than blue – but this depends on several factors. In India, the path to a prosperous, clean energy future lies with the former. To give ourselves the best chance of following this path, however, we must act now. As the International Energy Agency’s recent Global Hydrogen Review 2021 ...