Aid Relationships in Asia

Part I. The Concept of Ownership in the Aid Debate

1. Introduction: Conceptualising Ownership in Aid Relations
Alf Morten Jerve, Annette Skovsted Hansen

2. Donor-Recipient Relationships in the Aid Effectiveness Debate
Machiko Nissanke

3. Ownership of What?: Beyond National Poverty Strategies and Aid Harmonisation in the Case of Vietnam
Izumi Ohno, Kenichi Ohno

Part II. Aid Relations Where Aid Dominates

4. Laos: Contestation of National Ownership — the Role of Aid Relations and the Case of the Electricity Sector
Stéphanie Robert, Henrik Secher Marcussen

5. Sri Lanka: Exploring ‘Ownership’ of Aid-Funded Projects: a Comparative Study of Japanese, Norwegian and Swedish Project Aid
Alf Morten Jerve, W. D. Lakshman, Piyadasa Ratnayake

6. Mongolia: Unpredictable Ownership — Comparing a Japanese and a Swedish Funded Project
Lkham Luvsanjamts, Marie Söderberg

7. Nepal and Its Donors — Partners in Learning To Cope
Sudhindra Sharma, Annette Skovsted Hansen, Tatsuro Fujikura, Juhani Koponen

Part III. Aid Relations Where Aid Is Marginal

8. China: How Size Matters — a Comparative Study of Ownership in Japanese and Swedish Aid Projects
Liping He, Marie Söderberg

9. Thailand: Legitimacy and Aid Recipient Ownership — the Case of the Export Promotion Strategy
Yasutami Shimomura

10. Vietnam: the Making of Recipient Ownership and Responses to Swedish and Japanese Aid
Le Thanh Forsberg

11. Thailand: What Makes Recipient Ownership?: a Comparative Study of Japanese and Danish Aid to Environmental Conservation
Siriporn Wajjwalku, Euamporn Tasarika

Keywords: Economics, International Economics, Development Economics, Regional/Spatial Science, Asian Economics