Provides perspectives into the debate on aid effectiveness and aid relationships in Asia.

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.

PART I: THE CONCEPT OF OWNERSHIP IN THE AID DEBATE - Introduction: Conceptualising Ownership in Aid Relations
A.M.Jerve &
A.S.Hansen - Donor-Recipient Relationships
in the Aid Effectiveness Debate
M.Nissanke - Ownership of What? Beyond National Poverty Strategies and Aid Harmonisation in the Case of Vietnam
I.Ohno &
K.Ohno - PART II: AID RELATIONS WHERE AID DOMINATES - Laos: Contestation of National Ownership - the Role of Aid Relations and the Case of the Electricity Sector
S.Robert &
H.S.Marcussen - Sri Lanka: Exploring 'Ownership' of Aid-Funded Projects: A Comparative Study of Japanese, Norwegian
and Swedish Project Aid
A.M.Jerve, W.D.Lakshman &
P.Ratnayake - Mongolia: Unpredictable Ownership - Comparing a Japanese and a Swedish Funded Project in Mongolia
L.Luvsanjamts &
M.Soderberg - Nepal and Its Donors - Partners in Learning to Cope
S.Sharma, A.S.Hansen,
T.Fujikura &
J.Koponen - PART III: AID RELATIONS
WHERE AID IS MARGINAL - China: How Size Matters - A Comparative Study of Ownership in Japanese and Swedish Aid Projects
L.He &
M.Soderberg - Thailand: Legitimacy and Aid Recipient Ownership - the Case of the Export Promotion
Strategy
Y.Shimomura - Vietnam: The Making of Recipient Ownership and Responses to Swedish and Japanese Aid
L.T.Forsberg - Thailand: What Makes Recipient Ownership? A Comparative Study of Japanese and Danish Aid to Environmental Conservation
S.Wajjwalku &
E.Tasarika