1st Edition

The Business of Japanese Foreign Aid Five Cases from Asia

Edited By Marie Soderberg Copyright 1996
318 Pages
by Routledge

320 Pages
by Routledge

Japan is now the biggest donor of Official Development Assistance (ODA) throughout the world. This study takes a new approach to this subject by focusing on the procedures, methodologies and business mechanisms at the implementation level that influence the process of policy-making in Tokyo. It is also the first study to explore the process of receiving aid, arguing that many of the recipient... Read more
Series editor’s preface Introduction: Time to look at Japanese aid in practice 1 Japanese ODA—what type, for whom and why? 2 OECF and the implementation process 3 Japanese ODA—the business perspective 4 Road to development in Thailand 5 Power and development in Indonesia 6 Power and democracy in the Philippines 7 Shipping aid to China 8 Rail aid to China, Conclusion: Working the two-way process

Biography

Marie Söderberg is Senior Research Fellow at the European Institute of Japanese Studies, Stockholm