Essays about: "Asian development cooperation."

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  1. 1. Aid Strategies of an Asian Democracy: The Formation of Japanese Governance and Democracy Promotion in the Field

    University essay from Lunds universitet/Graduate School

    Author : Hugo Ekelund; [2023]
    Keywords : Key words: democracy promotion; development assistance; Japanese foreign policy; street-level bureaucrats; Asian development cooperation.; Law and Political Science; Social Sciences;

    Abstract : This is a study of the promotion of democracy and governance as a part of Japan’s official development cooperation. Despite being one of few Asian democracies among aid donors, Japan’s work with democracy and governance has largely been overlooked in the discussion of its aid programme. READ MORE

  2. 2. The Legal Empowerment Paradoxy? : A Critical Exploration of Power Imbalances in the Legal Empowerment Discourse from a Global North/South Perspective

    University essay from Uppsala universitet/Statsvetenskapliga institutionen

    Author : Anna Wifvesson; [2020]
    Keywords : Legal Empowerment; North-South; South-South; Development Aid; Postcolonialism;

    Abstract : Legal empowerment as a theoretical and practical concept has gained increasing attention in international development. Due to the shifting aid paradigm, caused by the rising of South-South cooperation, legal empowerment’s proposed bottom-up character has challenged the larger conventional top-down approaches to development that traditionally have dominated the development agenda. READ MORE

  3. 3. Water carved out the mountains. Policy communication of Engaged Buddhists related to international development cooperation

    University essay from Malmö högskola/Fakulteten för kultur och samhälle (KS)

    Author : Kristin Olson; [2016]
    Keywords : Engaged Buddhism; Civil Society Organizations; Faith-Based Organizations; Human Right Based Approach; participation; complexity systemic approaches; power; Thich Nhath Hanh; Sister Chan Khong; Sulak Sivaraksa; Bikkhuni Dhammananda; A.T. Ariyaratne; Sarvodaya;

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  4. 4. Emerging Donors and Development Cooperation: Thailand and Malaysia

    University essay from Lunds universitet/Centrum för öst- och sydöstasienstudier

    Author : Manon Carle; [2015]
    Keywords : Malaysia; Thailand; Development cooperation; Emerging donor; Social Sciences;

    Abstract : Using textual analysis based on a constructivist perspective, this thesis attempted to analyze how development cooperation policy builds the emerging donor identity. It did so by looking at foreign policy in the case studies of two small Asian donors, Thailand and Malaysia. READ MORE

  5. 5. Rhetoric and Interests within Japanese ODA: the case of assistance to human development in Vietnam

    University essay from Lunds universitet/Centrum för öst- och sydöstasienstudier

    Author : Silvia Giannelli; [2013]
    Keywords : human development; Japanese ODA; Vietnam; human capital; human resource development; Social Sciences;

    Abstract : In the past few decades, the central topic of targeting human development through aid has been given more importance by both international organizations, recipient and donor countries. One of the goals of this study is to investigate how the mutual cooperation between the inflow of Japanese Official Development Assistance (ODA), on one side, and the implementation of the national socio-economic development strategy in Vietnam, on the other, is having effects on human and social development in the latter. READ MORE