A Study of China's Foreign Aid: An Asian Perspective - Paperback

by Y. Shimomura (Editor), H. Ohashi (Editor)

This book provides a new perspective of China's controversial foreign aid strategy. The chapters offer a thorough examination of data to show how China has created knowledge in its long experiences of aid and how this accumulated knowledge could contribute to other developing countries. The book also examines China's aid philosophy and strategy through an Asian perspective, instead of the Western perspective that is postulated in existing academic literature. This is important as China shares a number of common features with other Asian donors, including India and Japan. Finally, the book explores how to utilize the potential effect of this rising major donor for worldwide development and poverty reduction.

Author Biography

Yasutami Shimomura is Professor Emeritus at Hosei University, Tokyo, Japan Hideo Ohashi is Professor of Development Economics and Asian Studies at Senshu University, Japan Shino Watanabe is Associate Professor of the Faculty of Liberal Arts at Saitama University, Japan Takaaki Kobayashi is an associate professor at the Graduate School of International Social Sciences, Yokohama National University, Japan Izumi Ohno is Professor at the National Graduate Institute for Policy Studies (GRIPS), Japan. She previously served for the Japan International Cooperation Agency, the World Bank, and the Japan Bank for International Cooperation Wang Ping a Postdoctoral Research Fellow at the Faculty of Asian Languages and Cultures, Guangdong University of Foreign Studies (GDUFS), Guangzhou, China Juichi Inada now a Professor for International Political Economy at the School of International Economics, Senshu University, Japan Dennis D. Trinidad is Associate Professor and Coordinator for Japanese Studies Programme at De La Salle University, Manila Naohiro Kitano is the former Director General for the East and Central Asia and Caucasus Department at the Japan International Cooperation Agency (JICA), Japan