Aid Relationships in Asia Exploring Ownership in Japanese and Nordic Aid [Hardcover]

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.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.S?derberg 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.S?derberg 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.TasarikaLE THANH FORSBERG PhD Candidate, Department of Economic History, Lund University ; Research Associate, European Institute of Japanese Studies, Stockholm School of Economics, Sweden TATSURO FUJIKURA Associate Professor, Department of South l£c