Japan’s Development Assistance

1. Front Matter

   Pages i-xxix

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2. Japan’s ODA 1954–2014: Changes and Continuities in a Central Instrument in Japan’s Foreign Policy

   1. Japan’s ODA 1954–2014: Changes and Continuities in a Central Instrument in Japan’s Foreign Policy

      • Hiroshi Kato

      Pages 1-18

3. Japan’s Engagement with Multilateral Development Banks: Do Their Professional Paths Really Cross?

   1. Japan’s Engagement with Multilateral Development Banks: Do Their Professional Paths Really Cross?

      • Kiyoshi Kodera

      Pages 19-35

4. Origin and Institutional Foundation of Japan’s Bilateral ODA

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 37-37

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   2. Origins of Japanese Aid Policy—Post-war Reconstruction, Reparations, and World Bank Projects

      • Ryo Fujikura, Mikiyasu Nakayama

      Pages 39-55

   3. Japan’s Foreign Aid: Institutional Change and Shifting Policy Directions

      • Purnendra Jain

      Pages 56-71

   4. The Political Economy of Japan’s Aid Policy Trajectory: With Particular Reference to the Changes and Continuity under the ODA Charter

      • Yasutami Shimomura

      Pages 72-87

   5. The Benefits of Unification Failure: Re-examining the Evolution of Economic Cooperation in Japan

      • Jin Sato

      Pages 88-102

5. Japan, Asia, and Africa: Adapting Aid to Changing Contexts

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 103-103

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   2. The East Asian Miracle and Development Policy: A Twenty-Year Retrospective

      • John Page

      Pages 105-119

   3. Japan, Korea, and China: Styles of ODA in East Asia

      • Barbara Stallings, Eun Mee Kim

      Pages 120-134

   4. Policies and Practices of China’s Foreign Aid: A Comparison with Japan

      • Meibo Huang

      Pages 135-148

   5. Japan’s Official Development Assistance to Sub-Saharan Africa: Patterns, Dynamics, and Lessons

      • Scarlett Cornelissen

      Pages 149-165

6. Instruments and Footprints

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 167-167

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   2. Catalyzing Transformation for Inclusive Growth

      • Akio Hosono

      Pages 169-187

   3. Revisiting Policy-Based Financing: Experiences of Japan, Asia, and Other Countries, and Their Relevance to the Post-2015 Development Agenda

      • Kazuto Tsuji

      Pages 188-204

   4. Embracing Human Security: New Directions of Japan’s ODA for the 21st Century

      • Sachiko G. Kamidohzono, Oscar A. Gómez, Yoichi Mine

      Pages 205-221

   5. Japan Overseas Cooperation Volunteers: Its Genesis and Development

      • Yasunobu Okabe

      Pages 222-236

7. Japan and the Multilateral Institutions

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 237-237

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   2. Japan and the United Nations: Its Past, Present, and Future

      • Sukehiro Hasegawa

      Pages 239-254

Once the world's largest ODA provider, contemporary Japan seems much less visible in international development. However, this book demonstrates that Japan, with its own aid philosophy, experiences, and models of aid, has ample lessons to offer to the international community as the latter seeks new paradigms of development cooperation.

• Japan
• official development assistance
• ODA
• foreign aid
• international cooperation
• development cooperation
• human security
• Millennium Development Goals
• post-2015 development agenda
• inclusive growth
• aid effectiveness
• development
• development aid
• Development Cooperation
• East Asia
• Engagement
• development policy

“The book is no doubt an important intellectual contribution and a substantial addition to the existing studies on Japan’s foreign assistance. I hope that the book will be widely read by researchers, policymakers, and practitioners in the related field. I also trust that it will trigger future research on Japanese ODA including the analysis of unique contributions that Japan can make to help build self-reliant economies in the developing regions in the SDGs era.” (Izumi Ohno, Social Science Japan Journal, Vol. 20 (2), August, 2017)

• Japan International Cooperation Agency, Japan

  Hiroshi Kato

• Brookings Institution, USA

  John Page

• Hosei University, Japan

  Yasutami Shimomura

Yoshiaki Abe, World Bank. Tony Addison, United Nations University's World Institute for Development Economics Research (UNU-WIDER) in Helsinki, Finland. Julie Biau, Inter-American Development Bank (IDB). Scarlett Cornelissen, Stellenbosch University, South Africa. Ryo Fujikura, Hosei University, Japan. Oscar A. Gómez, Japan International Cooperation Agency Research Institute (JICA-RI), Japan. Sukehiro Hasegawa, Hosei University and United Nations University, Japan Akio Hosono, JICA-RI, Japan. Purnendra Jain, University of Adelaide, Australia. Sachiko Goto Kamidohzonom, JICA-RI, Japan. Shigeo Katsu, Nazarbayev University, Kazakhstan. Homi Kharas, Brookings Institution, USA. Eun Mee Kim, Ewha Womans University, South Korea. Kiyoshi Kodera, JICA-RI, Japan. Richard Manning, Oxford University, UK. Huang Meibo, Xiamen University, China. Yoichi Mine, Doshisha University, Kyoto, Japan. Mikiyasu Nakayama, University of Tokyo, Japan. Masaaki Ohashi, Center for International Cooperation (JANIC), Japan. Yasunobu Okabe, Tohoku University, Japan. Jin Sato, University of Tokyo, Japan. Barbara Stallings, Brown University, USA. Akihiko Tanaka, JICA-RI, Japan. Finn Tarp, University of Copenhagen, Denmark. Kazuto Tsuji, Saitama University, Japan.

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