Aid Relationships in Asia

LE 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 and West Asian Area Studies, Graduate School of Asian and African Area Studies Kyoto University, Japan LIPING HE Professor and Chair, Department of Finance, School of Economics and Business Administration, Beijing Normal University, China JUHANI KOPONEN Professor of Development Studies, University of Helsinki, Finland W.D. LAKSHMAN Senior Professor of Economics, University of Colombo, Sri Lanka LUVSANJAMTS LKHAM Doctoral Student, Mongolian University of Science and Technology, Mongolia HENRIK SECHER MARCUSSEN Professor and Head, Department of Geography and International Development Studies, Roskilde University, Denmark MACHIKO NISSANKE Professor of Economics, School of Oriental and African Studies (SOAS), University of London, UK IZUMI OHNO Professor, National Graduate Research Institute for Policy Studies (GRIPS), Japan KENICHI OHNO Professor, National Graduate Research Institute for Policy Studies (GRIPS), Japan PIYADASA RATNAYAKE Professor of Economics, Faculty of Economics, Saga University, Japan STAePHANIE ROBERT Department of Geography and International Development Studies, Roskilde University, Denmark; Paris 7 University, France SUDHINDRA SHARMA Director, Interdisciplinary Analysts, Kathmandu YASUTAMI SHIMOMURA Professor of Development Economics and Dean of the Graduate School of Environmental Management, Hosei University, Tokyo, Japan MARIE SA-DERBERG Associate Professor, European Institute of Japanese Studies, Stockholm School of Economics, Sweden EUAMPORN TASARIKA Assistant Professor of Economics, Thammasat University, Thailand SIRIPORN WAJJWALKU Assistant Professor, Faculty of Political Science, Thammasat University, Thailand; Project Coordinator, Japan Watch Project, Thailand Research Fund, Thailand

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.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.