Japan & Africa

Zusatztext "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 Informationen zum Autor 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. Klappentext 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. This book examines Japan's foreign aid policy within the theme of a globalized economy in which Japan and Africa are inextricably connected. Zusammenfassung Analyzes contemporary political and economic relations in foreign aid policy between Japan and Africa. This book offers primary questions focusing 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. Inhaltsverzeichnis 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 ...

Product details

• Assisted by: Howard P. Lehman (Editor), Howard P. (University of Utah Lehman (Editor), Lehman Howard P. (Editor)
• Publisher: Routledge Academic
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 22.06.2010
• EAN: 9780415562171
• ISBN: 978-0-415-56217-1
• Dimensions: 144 mm x 223 mm x 15 mm
• Series: Routledge Contemporary Asia Series; Routledge Contemporary Asia; Routledge Contemporary Asia Series; Routledge Contemporary Asia
• Subjects: Social sciences, law, business > Political science > Political science and political education; Japan, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Disasters & Disaster Relief, Africa, BUSINESS & ECONOMICS / Development / Economic Development, Aid & relief programmes, Development economics & emerging economies, Development economics and emerging economies, Aid and relief programmes