Author: Micheline Beaudry
Publisher: IDRC
Published: 1999
Total Pages: 239
ISBN-13: 088936883X
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Japans System of Official Development Assistance
Author: Anny Wong
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2018-10-24
Total Pages: 240
ISBN-13: 131773405X
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →First published in 2001. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.
Author: Ikuo Ota
Publisher:
Published: 1992
Total Pages: 162
ISBN-13:
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Japan is the biggest importer of tropical logs in the world, and most of them are from Southeast Asia. It is also a major offerer of Official Development Assistance (ODA) to this area. The purpose of this thesis is to analyze the relationship between Japanese bilateral ODA to three Southeast Asian countries (Indonesia, the Philippines, and Malaysia) and tropical timber harvest levels in these countries. Two different methods are applied: econometric timber market model analysis and the Granger causality test. Timber market model analysis shows a significant correlation between Japanese bilateral ODA and timber harvest levels in Indonesia and in Malaysia. It also shows a significant correlation between timber harvest levels in Malaysia and the number of new housing construction starts in Japan. There is no significant relationship for the Philippines. The Granger causality test shows clear evidence of causality from Japanese housing construction to timber harvest levels in Indonesia, and also to Japanese bilateral ODA to Indonesia. It shows evidence of causality from timber harvest levels in Malaysia to Japanese bilateral ODA to Malaysia, too. There are no causal effects among timber harvest levels in the Philippines, Japanese bilateral ODA to the Philippines, and Japanese housing construction. All of the results can be explained in a reasonable manner by considering political, economic, and forestry situations of the three Southeast Asian countries and Japan.
Author: Arne Kalland
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2013-10-31
Total Pages: 312
ISBN-13: 1136798137
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →This volume paints a general picture of the environmental situation in Asia, backing it up with several case studies. Two major points are made in this general picture. The first is that environmental campaigns in Asia tend to have a local focus; they react to very concrete problems in the immediate neighbourhood and as such usually people are engaged in a cause for practical rather than idealistic reasons. Such can be seen in case studies from the volume dealing with campaigns against logging and tree plantations, tourist facilities and factories and in support or defence of nature reserves. This pattern is in marked contrast to the profile of the most successful Western movements (in terms of fund-raising at least) for whom the focus is on perceived problems in distant parts of the world. The second point is evidence in several of the case studies in the volume, namely that environmental campaigns cannot be understood in terms of environmental issues alone. Rather, they should be regarded as a form of cultural critique and frequently are a form of political resistance in situations where open political action is too risky.
Author: Sandra Tarte
Publisher: Asia Pacific Press
Published: 1998
Total Pages: 268
ISBN-13:
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: Yasutami Shimomura
Publisher: Springer
Published: 2016-01-26
Total Pages: 392
ISBN-13: 1137505389
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →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.
Author: United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Foreign Relations
Publisher:
Published: 1989
Total Pages: 284
ISBN-13:
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