Development Co-operation Reviews: Japan 1999

Japan is the leader in volume among DAC donors, but it ranks 19th out of 21 bilateral Members in terms of ODA as a percentage of GNP. Compared to other Members, its aid programme has a higher proportion of loans, with preference towards Asia and lower middle-income countries, and a heavy emphasis on...

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Autor principal: Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development.
Autor Corporativo: Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (-)
Formato: Libro electrónico
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Paris : OECD Publishing 1999.
Colección:Development Co-operation Reviews, no.34.
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Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Summary and Conclusions
  • Chapter 1. Overall Framework and New Developments
  • Overview
  • ODA Charter and Japan’s philosophy on aid
  • ODA reforms
  • Administrative reform
  • Support for the international development strategy (IDS)
  • Country strategy approach
  • Council on ODA Reform
  • Transparency and efficiency
  • OECF/JEXIM merger
  • Asian crisis
  • The Second Tokyo International Conference on African Development
  • Chapter 2. Organisational Structure and Aid Management
  • Overall structure
  • Economic Co-operation Bureau (ECB) of MOFA
  • Implementing agencies
  • JICA
  • OECF
  • Aid co-ordination with other donors
  • NGOs
  • MOFA support to NGOs
  • Postal Savings for International Voluntary Aid (POSIVA)
  • Situation of Japanese NGOs
  • Information and public opinion
  • Public information efforts
  • Information disclosure
  • Local governments
  • Japan Overseas Co-operation Volunteers (JOCV)
  • Public opinion
  • Chapter 3. Sectoral, Cross-Cutting and Effectiveness Issues
  • Health
  • Education
  • Environment
  • Water and sanitation
  • Basic human needs
  • Poverty
  • Gender equality
  • Governance and corruption
  • Evaluation and effectiveness
  • Chapter 4. Policy Coherence
  • Introduction
  • Institutional framework
  • Trade patterns
  • Market access for developing countries
  • Agriculture
  • Fisheries
  • Manufactured products— Footwear and Textiles
  • The Generalised System of Preferences
  • Investment flows
  • Policies
  • Conclusion
  • Chapter 5. Basic Profiles
  • ODA volume
  • Contribution to multilaterals
  • Main categories of the programme
  • Instruments
  • Geographical distribution
  • Income distribution
  • Sectoral distribution
  • Tying and procurement
  • Debt relief
  • ANNEX I.  EXCERPTS FROM JAPAN’S OFFICIAL DEVELOPMENT ASSISTANCE CHARTER ADOPTED BY THE CABINET IN 1992
  • ANNEX II CHINA REPORT
  • ANNEX III GHANA REPORT
  • ANNEX IV COUNCIL ON ODA REFORMS FOR THE 21ST CENTURY (EXCERPTS FROM SUMMARY OF FINAL REPORT)
  • ANNEX V THE OUTLINE OF THE MEMORANDUM ON ENHANCEMENT OF TRANSPARENCY AND EFFICIENCY OF ODA(27 NOVEMBER 1998)
  • ANNEX VI JAPAN’S NEW ASSISTANCE PROGRAMME FOR AFRICA IN LINE WITH THE TOKYO INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON AFRICAN DEVELOPMENT (TICAD) II AGENDA FOR ACTION
  • ANNEX VII STATISTICS OF AID AND OTHER FLOWS
  • PRESS RELEASE OF DAC PEER REVIEW OF JAPAN
  • DESCRIPTION OF KEY TERMS