A new phase in Japanese economic cooperation

Nishigaki, Akira

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“…Japan will provide support to Vietnam in transforming the model of its economic development. Japan, being the largest donor country to Vietnam through the Official development assistance (ODA), promised to continue strengthening assistance to Vietnam in developing infrastructure and in resource development (Nishigaki, 2000). Japan will help to improve the efficiency of the ODA use in Vietnam, and is planning to allocate about US$ 835 million for this purpose.…”

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The Main Trends of Vietnam - Japan Cooperation Within the Framework of Bilateral Strategic Partnership

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2021

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The article examines the process of formation and development of the comprehensive political and trade and economic cooperation between Japan and the Socialist Republic of Vietnam since 1973, when diplomatic relations were established between the two countries, and then received a new impetus after Vietnam started the market reforms in 1986 and commenced the renewal policy (in Vietnamese – “Đổi Mới”). In 2009, Japan and Vietnam decided to raise the bilateral relations to the level of strategic partnership for the common interests of both countries. In 2010, as part of the official visit of the Prime Minister of Japan to Vietnam, a Joint Declaration on strategic cooperation for peace and prosperity in Asia was adopted.The article focuses on cooperation between the two countries in the framework of international and regional organizations, in particular in the framework of the Trans-Pacific Partnership Agreement, as well as in the framework of the Regional Comprehensive Economic Partnership, in which Japan and ASEAN member states participate. In recent decades Japan has been one of Vietnam’s main foreign economic partners and the second largest investor into Vietnamese economy. At the same time, Japan is the largest sponsor of Vietnam through the Official development assistance program (ODA), actively assisting Vietnam in implementing its national strategy of industrialization and modernization under the framework agreement on cooperation between Vietnam and Japan until 2020 with the prospect of 2030. Besides, the article discusses and analyzes the largest joint projects implemented in Vietnam with the technical and financial assistance from Japan.

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The Main Trends of Vietnam - Japan Cooperation Within the Framework of Bilateral Strategic Partnership

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2021

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“…Akira Nishigaki (2000), former president of Japan's OECF, has argued that concessional status does not necessarily enhance the quality of aid; therefore, aid should not be measured by whether it takes the form of grants or loans. This viewpoint is based on the two elements stressed in Japan's own development norms: self‐help efforts and the importance of infrastructure.…”

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Contextualizing other political ecologies: Japan's environmental aid to the Philippines

Kim

2012

Singap J Trop Geogr

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Correspondence: Soyeun Kim (email: s.s.kim@leeds.ac.uk) This paper argues for the utility of a focus on contextualized sources of environmental change to address the ever more diverse contexts of political ecology. In order to overcome the conventional approach to contextual sources that has tended to be analytically one-dimensional and limited, I seek to provide a more nuanced account, notably by examining the neglected case of green aid of a nonwestern aid donor, Japan. Using conceptual tools that are both conjuncture-based and multiscalar, the paper examines the way in which a post-Rio international policy drive to promote so called green aid during the 1990s was translated into and conditioned by the historically and geographically specific contexts of Japan and the aid recipient featured herein, the Philippines. This focus on contextual sources helps to elucidate (i) how the ambiguous nature of international aid criteria combined together with Japan's own domestic political economy to render problematic an ostensibly environmental project, (ii) the manner in which neoliberal economic restructuring was translated into one of Japan's key policy initiatives in the 1990s and formed the backdrop to the specific aid case project discussed here, (iii) how Japan's environmental aid process in the Philippines was shaped through a repoliticization of various green discourses, and (iv) how the complex dynamics among stakeholders ended up compromising the very nature of the case study project.

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“…Such Korea's experience as a recipient can be observed in the donor's emphasis on loan assistance, which is reflected on the continued increase of its bilateral ODA loans (see Figure ). Many officials commented that loan repayment responsibility is key to facilitate recipients' own self‐help efforts as well as the ownership of their development projects (Interviews with Economic Development Cooperation Fund (EDCF), ; Interviews with MOSF, ) as the quality of aid should not be measured by whether it takes a form of grants or loans (see Nishigaki, : 59)…”

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Bridging Troubled Worlds? An Analysis of the Ethical Case for South Korean Aid

Kim

2011

J of Intl Development

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This article critically assesses an ethical case of emerging donors via a case study of South Korea's official development assistance. In so doing, the article sets out two tasks: (i) overcoming the hitherto reductionist reading of emerging donors that uses the established normative framework as a reference point and (ii) addressing a relatively understudied topic of emerging donors within the mainstream aid-ethics debates. To attend to these analytical gaps, the article focuses on two things. First, the case study is discussed within Korea's own historical and institutional context to highlight the latter's significant influence on the way its ethical case for aid provision is presented. Second, this study focuses on the tensions between the stated ethical rhetoric and reality. This study finds that the ethical case is not only an important rationale for Korea's donorship but also strategic for its efforts to achieve the comparative advantage in the increasingly competitive international aid market to advance its national interests.

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A new phase in Japanese economic cooperation

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The Main Trends of Vietnam - Japan Cooperation Within the Framework of Bilateral Strategic Partnership

The Main Trends of Vietnam - Japan Cooperation Within the Framework of Bilateral Strategic Partnership

Contextualizing other political ecologies: Japan's environmental aid to the Philippines

Bridging Troubled Worlds? An Analysis of the Ethical Case for South Korean Aid

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