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Since the early 1990s, Japan has played an increasingly important and influential role in Africa. A primary mechanism that has furthered its influence has been through its foreign aid policies. Japan’s primacy, however, has been challenged by changing global conditions related to aid to Africa, including the consolidation of the poverty reduction agenda and China’s growing presence in Africa.
This book analyzes contemporary political and economic relations in foreign aid policy between Japan and Africa. Primary questions focus on Japan’s influence in the African continent, reasons for spending its limited resources to further African development, and the way Japan’s foreign aid is invested in Africa. The context of examining Japan’s foreign aid policies highlights the fluctuation between its commitments in contributing to international development and its more narrow-minded pursuit of its national interests.
The contributors examine Japan’s foreign aid policy within the theme of a globalized economy in which Japan and Africa are inextricably connected. Japan and many African countries have come to realize that both sides can obtain benefits through closely coordinated aid policies. Moreover, Japan sees itself to represent a distinct voice in the international donor community while Africa needs foreign aid from all sources.
1. Introduction: The Global Politics of Japanese-African Relations Howard P. Lehman 2. History of Japanese ODA to Africa Makoto Sato 3. The Asian Economic Model in Africa: Japanese Developmental Lessons for Africa Howard P. Lehman 4. The Ambiguous Japan: Aid Experience and the Notion of Self-Help Motoki Takahashi 5. International Debt Management: Japan’s Policy to Africa Jun’ichi Hasegawa 6. Policy Coordination Among Aid Donors: Japan’s Position from a European Perspective Nobuyuki Hashimoto 7. Japan and the Poverty Reduction Aid Regime: Challenges and Opportunities in Assistance for Africa Motoki Takahashi
Howard P. Lehman received his Ph.D. in political science from the University of Minnesota in 1987 and has been teaching at the University of Utah since 1986. His publications include a book on economic development and many articles on South Africa, foreign debt negotiations, and African interest groups.
\"The volume is a very useful addition to the recent publications about Japan’s relations with Africa, especially in the manner in which some of the chapters contend with policy issues about development.\" - Kweku Ampiah, Pacific Affairs: Volume 85, No. 1 - March 2012
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Japan's foreign aid policy in Africa : evaluating the TICAD process
'Japan's Foreign Aid Policy in Africa' evaluates TICAD's intellectual contribution to and its development practices regarding Africa over the past 20 years. A central conclusion is that, while TICAD bureaucrats lacked agency to support Japanese companies in Africa, the model of emerging powers partnerships has expanded in Africa.
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Japan's foreign aid
This volume has grown out of a study of Japanese official development assistance(ODA) that I organized in 2001. Up to that time, Japan had been the world's singlelargest contributor of bilateral ODA, but it was clear that changes of policydirection were brewing due to factors explained in the introduction to this volume.My idea was to gather the views of experts from a variety of backgrounds to gainperspectives on the state of Japanese ODA at the start of the new millennium thatmight do justice to the many dimensions of this policy area
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The Business of Japanese Foreign Aid
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 countries exert considerable influence over the distribution of Japanese foreign aid.
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Japan's Foreign Aid Challenge
When this volume was published in 1993 it was the first comprehensive analysis of the major policy issues confronting Japan’s massive foreign aid programme. It deals with the philosophy behind Japan’s aid, Japanese reactions to the severe criticisms of its programmes and the beginnings of meaningful administrative reform of the complex aid system. Alan Rix goes on to examine the widespread innovation in programmes and policies to make Japan’s aid more responsive and the impact of the Asian bias in Japan’s aid.
1. The Philosophy of Japan’s Foreign Aid 2. Aid at Home: Public Response and Pressure Groups 3. The Real Challenge: Reforming Japan’s Aid Administration 4. Policy Innovation in Japanese Aid 5. Ties that Bind: Japanese Aid and Asia 6. Japan and Foreign Aid Leadership
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Japan's Economic Aid
Japan’s arrival since World War Two as a major industrial nation has meant that she has had to bear a greater share of the developed world’s contribution to the developing nations and foreign aid has become an integral part of foreign policy. This book describes the roots of Japan’s aid policy and shows that this side of her international economic policy is based largely on domestic conditions, structures and forces. To understand the pattern of Japanese aid as it stands today, it is important to appreciate the complexities of the Japanese decision-making process. This book clearly explains the patterns of Japanese aid policy-making.
Part 1: Aid Ideas and Aid Structures 1. Foreign Aid and the Ministries 2. ‘Scrap and Build’: The Origins of JICA Part 2: The Domestic Politics of Foreign Aid 3.Aid and the Governmental Process 4. Ministries and the Policy Process 5. Budgeting for Foreign Aid Part 3: The Politics of Aid Relationships 6. Projects, Surveys and Consultants 7. Managing Bilateral Relations 8. Policy at Work: The Cycle of Aid
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Japan's Development Aid
Filling a gap in the existing literature, this book analyzes the distinctive features of Japan's development aid, especially technical co-operation, in comparison with other donors' aid.Incorporating a wealth ofresearch, it discusses whether Japan is behind other leading donor countries in rethinking its aid policy and whether it lacks transparency, sensitivity to recipient needs, and a coherent and coordinated policy that targets poverty.The volume assesses the nature and effectiveness of the administration of Japan's aid, and explores the degree of involvement of private sector a
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