Japans Development Assistance Foreign Aid and the Post-2015 Agenda [Hardcover]

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.The book is no doubt an important intellectual contribution and a substantial addition to the existing studies on Japans foreign assistance. I hope that the book will be widely read by researchers, policymakers, and practitioners in the related field. I also trust that it will trigger future research on Japanese ODA including the analysis of unique contributions that Japan can make to help build self-reliant economies in the developing regions in the SDGs era. (Izumi Ohno, Social Science Japan Journal, Vol. 20 (2), August, 2017)

Yoshiaki Abe, World Bank. Tony Addison, United Nations University's World Institute for Development Economics Research (UNU-WIDER) in Helsinki, Finland. Julie Biau, Inter-American Development Bank (IDB). Scarlett Cornelissen, Stellenbosch University, South Africa. Ryo Fujikura, Hosei University, Japan. Oscar A. G?mez, Japan International Cooperation Agency Research Institute (JICA-RI), Japan. Sukehiro Hasegawa, Hosei University and United Nations University, Japan Akio Hosono, JICA-RI, Japan. Purnendra Jain, University of Adelaide, Australia. Sachiko Goto Kamidohzonom, JICA-RI, Japan. Shigeo Katsu, Nazarbayev University, Kazakhstan. Homi Kharas, Brookings Institution, USA. Eun Mee Kim, Ewha Womans University, South Korea. Kiyoshi Kodera, JICA-RI, Japan. Richard Manning, Oxford University, UK. Huang Meibo, Xiamen University, China. Yoichi Mine, Doshisha University, Kyoto, Japan. Mikiyasu Nakayama, University of Tokyo, Japan. Masaaki Ohashi, Center for International Cooperation (JANIC), Japan. Yasunobu Okabe, Tohoku University, Japan. Jin Sato, University of Tokyo, Japan. Barbara Stalll£Ù