Japanese Aid to the Pacific Islands Region
Author: Junko Edo
Publisher: Pacific Islands Development Program
Published: 1986
Total Pages: 112
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DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Author: Junko Edo
Publisher: Pacific Islands Development Program
Published: 1986
Total Pages: 112
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DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Author: Sandra Tarte
Publisher: Asia Pacific Press
Published: 1998
Total Pages: 268
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DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Factors that have motivated and shaped Japan's official development assistance towards the pacific islands are explored. Also examined is how Japan has responded to these criticisms and challenges, the impact of competing interests and objectives on Japan's aid policies.
Author: David Arase
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2012-10-12
Total Pages: 310
ISBN-13: 1134239025
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →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 of research, 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 and non-governmental organizations (NGOs). Including contributions from experts with direct experience with Japanese ODA, the book provides a wide range of recipient and donor viewpoints and presents important policy recommendations.
Author: Bruce M Koppel
Publisher: Westview Press
Published: 1993
Total Pages: 396
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DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Assesses the transformation of Japan's foreign aid policies within the context of the nation's changing economic and political relations throughout Asia and beyond.
Author: Grant K Goodman
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2019-06-26
Total Pages: 229
ISBN-13: 1000306771
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →The interrelationships of the United States and Japan with Micronesia, a U.S. dependency, and Papua New Guinea, a newly independent nation, are the focus of this study. The authors demonstrate that dependence does not by any means automatically terminate by virtue of a legal change in political status. To a surprising extent, Micronesia (the last UN trusteeship) and independent Papua New Guinea depend for their very survival on the United States and Japan. The authors point out that the interests of the United States and Japan in this region too often–and unnecessarily–operate in isolation from one another and in direct conflict. Cooperative U.S.-Japanese efforts are vital in this area; whatever plans are made for the region, they must be island-specific, culturally congruent, politically sensitive, and economically viable.
Author: Brij V. Lal
Publisher: University of Hawaii Press
Published: 2000-01-01
Total Pages: 710
ISBN-13: 9780824822651
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →An encyclopaedia of information on major aspects of Pacific life, including the physical environment, peoples, history, politics, economy, society and culture. The CD-ROM contains hyperlinks between section titles and sections, a library of all the maps in the encyclopaedia, and a photo library.
Author: John Overton
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2018-08-06
Total Pages: 314
ISBN-13: 0429816200
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →One of the key principles for effective aid programmes is that recipient agencies exert high degrees of ownership over the agendas, resources, systems and outcomes of aid activities. Sovereign recipient states should lead the process of development. Yet despite this well-recognised principle, the realities of aid delivery mean that ownership is often compromised in practice. Aid, Ownership and Development examines this ‘inverse sovereignty’ hypothesis with regard to the states and territories of the Pacific Island region. It provides an initial overview of different aid ‘regimes’ over time, maps aid flows in the region, and analyses the concept of sovereignty. Drawing on a rich range of primary research by the authors and contributors, it focuses on the agencies and individuals within the Pacific Islands who administer and apply aid projects and programmes. There is indeed evidence for the inverse sovereignty effect; particularly when island states and their small and stretched bureaucracies have to deal with complex and burdensome donor reporting requirements, management systems, consultative meetings and differing strategic priorities. This book outlines important ways in which Pacific agencies have proved adept not only at meeting these requirements, but also asserting their own priorities and ways of operating. It concludes that global agreements, such as the Paris Declaration on Aid Effectiveness in 2005 and the recently launched Sustainable Development Goals, can be effective means for Pacific agencies to both hold donors to account and also to recognise and exercise their own sovereignty.