Aid Relationships in Asia

Exploring Ownership in Japanese and Nordic Aid

Inbunden, Engelska, 2007

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Beskrivning

This book brings fresh perspectives into the debate on aid effectiveness and aid relationships. Asia provides a varied picture with its combination of rapidly developing countries where aid plays a less central role such as China, Vietnam, and Thailand as well as more aid dependent countries such as Nepal, Sri Lanka and Mongolia.

Produktinformation

Utgivningsdatum:2007-12-14
Mått:140 x 216 x 20 mm
Vikt:435 g
Format:Inbunden
Språk:Engelska
Antal sidor:237
Upplaga:2008
Förlag:Palgrave Macmillan
ISBN:9780230004955

Utforska kategorier

Internationell ekonomi inom Ekonomi och Ledarskap

Mer om författaren

ALF MORTEN JERVE is a Social Anthropologist, and graduated from the University of Bergen, Norway. Currently he is Director of the Chr. Michelsen Institute in Bergen. He has more than twenty years experience in development related research, consultancy and operational work. His main research areas are: development aid, social and economic rights, local government, rural development, institutional development, social impact assessment, resettlement and land-use management. The geographical focus has been East and Southern Africa, South and South-East Asia. He is the author of several aid

Innehållsförteckning

PART I: THE CONCEPT OF OWNERSHIP IN THE AID DEBATE Introduction: Conceptualising Ownership in Aid Relations; A.M.Jerve & A.S.Hansen Donor-Recipient Relationships in the Aid Effectiveness Debate; M.Nissanke Ownership of What? Beyond National Poverty Strategies and Aid Harmonisation in the Case of Vietnam; I.Ohno & K.Ohno PART II: AID RELATIONS WHERE AID DOMINATES Laos: Contestation of National Ownership - the Role of Aid Relations and the Case of the Electricity Sector; S.Robert & H.S.Marcussen Sri Lanka: Exploring 'Ownership' of Aid-Funded Projects: A Comparative Study of Japanese, Norwegian and Swedish Project Aid; A.M.Jerve, W.D.Lakshman & P.Ratnayake Mongolia: Unpredictable Ownership - Comparing a Japanese and a Swedish Funded Project in Mongolia; L.Luvsanjamts & M.Söderberg Nepal and Its Donors - Partners in Learning to Cope; S.Sharma, A.S.Hansen, T.Fujikura & J.Koponen PART III: AID RELATIONS WHERE AID IS MARGINAL China: How Size Matters - A Comparative Study of Ownership in Japanese and Swedish Aid Projects; L.He & M.Söderberg Thailand: Legitimacy and Aid Recipient Ownership - the Case of the Export Promotion Strategy; Y.Shimomura Vietnam: The Making of Recipient Ownership and Responses to Swedish and Japanese Aid; L.T.Forsberg Thailand: What Makes Recipient Ownership? A Comparative Study of Japanese and Danish Aid to Environmental Conservation; S.Wajjwalku & E.Tasarika