Promoting Development
The Political Economy of East Asian Foreign Aid
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Open AccessAssociations of patient-generated subjective global assessment (PG-SGA) and NUTRISCORE with survival in gastric cancer patients: timing matters, a retrospective cohort study
The timing of nutritional assessment may be important to treat cancer patients and predict their prognosis. This study examined whether Patient-Generated Subjective Global Assessment (PG-SGA) and NUTRISCORE sc...
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South Korea’s Foreign Aid as a Foreign Policy Instrument
The main objective of this chapter is to analyze South Korea’s international development cooperation as a donor, with special reference to the history of institutional structure and foreign aid allocation. In ...
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When Nonprofit Organizations Meet Information and Communication Technologies: How Organizational Culture Influences the Use of Traditional, Digital, and Sharing Media
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Expansion of sustainability science needed for the SDGs
Dominant research modes are not enough to guide the societal transformations necessary to achieve the 2030 Agenda. Researchers, practitioners, decision makers, funders and civil society should work together to...
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Human Security in East Asia: Beyond Crises
In this globalized world, we face multiple threats to human security, a powerful supplement to national security. The introduction to this book provides both a history and a definition of human security. Enhan...
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Human Security in Practice: The Case of South Korea
This chapter discusses the acceptance of human security by the “ODA community” in South Korea. The authors examine official documents, academic publications, and interviews with stakeholders, to see whether th...
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Conclusion: Ownership and Collaboration for Human Security in East Asia
This last chapter provides cross-country analysis and draws lessons from each of the case study chapters according to the three research questions: sovereignty, coordination and empowerment. In addition to the...
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Conclusions: East Asia and the Future of Foreign Aid
Chapter 7 concludes the book. It looks back at the four propositions that we set out to test. They concern the reasons that Asian aid is different from aid from the West and its impact in recipient countries. We ...
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Asian versus Western Modes of Foreign Aid
The first chapter provides the framework for the book. While most analysts focus on the differences between traditional and emerging donors, we argue that a more important distinction is between East Asian don...
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South Korea as an Emerging Asian Donor
Chapter 3 is an analysis of South Korea, the smallest of the three East Asian donors, which transformed itself from a very poor country into an important donor. As a recent member of the “donor club,” it has a...
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Vietnam as an Asian Recipient of Aid
Chapter 5 looks at Asian aid from below. This chapter is a case study of Vietnam, which is the recipient of large quantities of Asian resources. Since Vietnam is also a recipient of aid from the West, it is po...
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Japan as a Traditional Donor in the Asian Mode
Chapter 2 is a study of Japan, Asia’s leading foreign aid donor. Japan provided a model of development and of foreign aid that was emulated to a significant extent by South Korea and China. This model focuses ...
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China as a Non-Traditional Asian Donor
Chapter 4 examines the role of China as an increasingly important donor. Although China’s aid program began decades ago, it has recently become one of the largest donors. China is not a member of the “donor cl...
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Toward an Evaluation of East Asian Aid
Chapter 6 also focuses on Vietnam to help evaluate the Asian model of foreign aid. While we argue that Asian aid and other resources have made a major contribution to the economic and social success of Vietnam, w...
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Japan, Korea, and China: Styles of ODA in East Asia
East Asian donors have come to play an increasingly important role in the international foreign aid regime over the past couple of decades. Japan, Korea, and China are the leading actors from the region and ha...
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Introduction: The South Korean Development Experience
It has become almost a cliché within the global ODA (Official Development Assistance) community to stress South Korea’s unique position as a former aid recipient turned into an emerging donor. South Korea rece...
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Conclusion: Beyond Aid
Rapid economic development of South Korea during the latter half of the 20th century shaped the theories on economic development. South Korea used export-oriented industrialization as its primary strategy for ...
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The South Korean Developmental Alliance between Business, Labor and Government
The remarkable story of South Korea’s economic development and poverty reduction has been a shining example for develo** countries. The South Korean government has taken on, as its new global role, promoting...
