Japan's Development Assistance Foreign Aid and the Post-2015 Agenda

by Kato, Hiroshi; Page, John; Shimomura, Yasutami

• ISBN13: 9781137505378
• ISBN10: 1137505370
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2015-11-25
• Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan

Summary

Once the world's largest Official Development Assistance provider, contemporary Japan seems much less visible in international development. However, this edited collection 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. Leading thinkers on international development and experienced practitioners both from Japan and worldwide look into the origins, major characteristics and historical changes of development cooperation, investigating its interactions with major partners, including Japan's Asian neighbour countries (particularly China and Korea) and international organizations.

Author Biography

Hiroshi Kato is Vice-President of the Japan International Cooperation Agency (JICA) and formerly Director of the JICA Research Institute (JICA-RI), Japan.
 
John Page is Senior Fellow in the Global Economy and Development Program at the Brookings Institutio, USA. He has authored numerous books and articles on international development.
 
Yasutami Shimomura is Professor Emeritus at Hosei University, Japan. He has written extensively on international development and foreign aid.

Table of Contents

Foreword by Akihiko Tanaka
Introduction
1. Japan's ODA 1954-2014: Changes and Continuities in a Central Instrument in Japan's Foreign Policy; Hiroshi Kato
2. Japan's Engagement with Multilateral Development Banks: Do Their Professional Paths Really Cross?; Kiyoshi Kodera
PART I: ORIGIN AND INSTITUTIONAL FOUNDATION OF JAPAN'S BILATERAL ODA
3. Origins of Japanese Aid Policy-Post-war Reconstruction, Reparations and World Bank Projects; Ryo Fujikura and Mikiyasu Nakayama
4. Japan's Foreign Aid: Institutional Change and Shifting Policy Directions; Purnendra Jain
5. The Political Economy of Japan's Aid Policy Trajectory: With Particular Reference to the Changes and Continuity under the ODA Charter; Yasutami Shimomura
6. The Benefits of Unification Failure: Re-examining the Evolution of Economic Cooperation in Japan; Jin Sato
PART II: JAPAN, ASIA AND AFRICA: ADAPTING AID TO CHANGING CONTEXTS
7. The East Asian Miracle and Development Policy: A Twenty-Year Retrospective; John Page
8. Japan, Korea, and China: Styles of ODA in East Asia; Barbara Stallings and Eun Mee Kim
9. Policies and Practices of China's Foreign Aid: A Comparison with Japan; Meibo Huang
10. Japan's Official Development Assistance to sub-Saharan Africa: Patterns, Dynamics and Lessons; Scarlett Cornelissen
PART III: INSTRUMENTS AND FOOTPRINTS
11. Catalyzing Transformation for Inclusive Growth; Akio Hosono
12. Revisiting Policy-based Financing: Experiences of Japan, Asia and Other Countries, and Their Relevance to the post-2015 Development Agenda; Kazuto Tsuji
13. Embracing Human Security: New Directions of Japan's ODA for the 21st Century; Sachiko G. Kamidohzono, Oscar A. Gómez and Yoichi Mine
14. Japan Overseas Cooperation Volunteers: Its Genesis and Development; Yasunobu Okabe
PART IV: JAPAN AND THE MULTILATERAL INSTITUTIONS
15. Japan and the United Nations: Its Past, Present and Future; Sukehiro Hasegawa
16. The World Bank and Japan; Yoshiaki Abe and Shigeo Katsu
17. OECD-DAC and Japan: Its Past, Present and Future; Richard Manning
PART V: QUO VADIS: THE EAST ASIAN ODA MODEL AND THE POST-2015 DEVELOPMENT AGENDA
18. Lessons for Japanese Foreign Aid from Research on Aid's Impact; Tony Addison and Finn Tarp
19. New Actors, New Instruments, New Priorities: Towards a Sustainable Development Transformation; Homi Kharas and Julie Biau
20. NGOs and Japan's ODA: Critical Views and Advocacy; Masaaki Ohashi
21. Japan's Foreign Assistance at 60: Reflecting on the Past and Looking to the Future; Hiroshi Kato, John Page and Yasutami Shimomura