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Allocation of Japanese Foreign Aid and Its Impact on LDC's

Research Project

Project/Area Number 04620036
Research Category

Grant-in-Aid for General Scientific Research (C)

Allocation TypeSingle-year Grants
Research Field Politics
Research InstitutionUniversity of the Ryukyus

Principal Investigator

HOSHINO Eiichi  University of the Ryukyus, College of Law & Literature, Associate Professor, 法文学部, 助教授 (50229176)

Project Period (FY) 1992 – 1994
Project Status Completed (Fiscal Year 1994)
Budget Amount *help
¥1,000,000 (Direct Cost: ¥1,000,000)
Fiscal Year 1994: ¥300,000 (Direct Cost: ¥300,000)
Fiscal Year 1993: ¥300,000 (Direct Cost: ¥300,000)
Fiscal Year 1992: ¥400,000 (Direct Cost: ¥400,000)
KeywordsOfficial Development Aid / ODA / Japanese Foreign Aid / LDC / 開発理論 / 南北問題 / 日本外交
Research Abstract

Two issues regarding Japanese foreign aid to developing countries are particularly important. The first is what impact, if any, the aid has on development in reality. Aid should generate at least significant economic growth in the receiving countries. Related to the issue of impact is the question of decision of donor countries to give aid. What factors, aside from those of economic development, are operative here?
The purpose of this project is to examine these two interrelated issues : allocation of Japanese foreign aid and its impact on economic growth and equality in the recipient countries.
When a group of decision makers in a donor country are assumed to be a rational unitary actor, they should take the recipient needs into consideration in allocating their limited resources as foreign economic aid. Since non-superpower donors cannot fine-tune the foreign and/or domestic policies of the recipient government, they have little to gain from giving their resources away to unneedy reciplents. Our examination of Japanese foreign aid shows that decisions in Japan's economic aid allocation are best explained by the community of interests model. When the community of interests model holds, it is not reasonable for policy makers to allocate scarce resources with an expectation of changing other country's domestic or foreign policy behaviors. An appropriate rationale to extend ODA is to support countries or governments with favorable policy stances for Japan by assisting recipient development.

Report

(4 results)
  • 1994 Annual Research Report   Final Research Report Summary
  • 1993 Annual Research Report
  • 1992 Annual Research Report
  • Research Products

    (7 results)

All Other

All Publications (7 results)

  • [Publications] 星野英一: "日本の政府開発援助-援助供与政策と途上国経済への影響-" 琉大法学. 52. 425-458 (1994)

    • Description
      「研究成果報告書概要(和文)」より
    • Related Report
      1994 Final Research Report Summary
  • [Publications] Eiichi Hoshino: "Japanese Foreign Aid and Human Rights Conditionality" 琉大法学. 58(予定). (1997)

    • Description
      「研究成果報告書概要(和文)」より
    • Related Report
      1994 Final Research Report Summary
  • [Publications] Eiichi Hoshino: ""Allocation of Japanese Foreign Aid and Its Impact on LDC's, "" Ryudai Law Review. No.52, March. 425-458 (1994)

    • Description
      「研究成果報告書概要(欧文)」より
    • Related Report
      1994 Final Research Report Summary
  • [Publications] Eiichi Hoshino: ""Japanese Foreign Aid and Human Rights Conditionality, "" Ryudai Law Review. No.58, March (forthcoming). (1997)

    • Description
      「研究成果報告書概要(欧文)」より
    • Related Report
      1994 Final Research Report Summary
  • [Publications] 星野英一: "日本の政府開発援助(2)途上国経済への影響" 琉大法学. 55. (1995)

    • Related Report
      1994 Annual Research Report
  • [Publications] 星野英一: "日本の政府開発援助(2)途上国経済への影響" 琉大法学. 53. (1994)

    • Related Report
      1993 Annual Research Report
  • [Publications] 星野 英一: "日本の政府開発援助(1)援助供与政策" 琉大法学. 51. (1993)

    • Related Report
      1992 Annual Research Report

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Published: 1992-04-01   Modified: 2016-04-21  

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