Aid Relationships in Asia: Exploring Ownership in Japanese and Nordic Aid

Front Matter....Pages i-xx
Front Matter....Pages 1-1
Introduction: Conceptualising Ownership in Aid Relations....Pages 3-21
Donor-Recipient Relationships in the Aid Effectiveness Debate....Pages 22-40
Ownership of What?: Beyond National Poverty Strategies and Aid Harmonisation in the Case of Vietnam....Pages 41-62
Front Matter....Pages 63-63
Laos: Contestation of National Ownership — the Role of Aid Relations and the Case of the Electricity Sector....Pages 65-82
Sri Lanka: Exploring ‘Ownership’ of Aid-Funded Projects: a Comparative Study of Japanese, Norwegian and Swedish Project Aid....Pages 83-115
Mongolia: Unpredictable Ownership — Comparing a Japanese and a Swedish Funded Project....Pages 116-132
Nepal and Its Donors — Partners in Learning To Cope....Pages 133-150
Front Matter....Pages 151-151
China: How Size Matters — a Comparative Study of Ownership in Japanese and Swedish Aid Projects....Pages 153-172
Thailand: Legitimacy and Aid Recipient Ownership — the Case of the Export Promotion Strategy....Pages 173-190
Vietnam: the Making of Recipient Ownership and Responses to Swedish and Japanese Aid....Pages 191-208
Thailand: What Makes Recipient Ownership?: a Comparative Study of Japanese and Danish Aid to Environmental Conservation....Pages 209-223
Back Matter....Pages 224-237