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Association: Name: ISA's 49th ANNUAL CONVENTION, BRIDGING MULTIPLE DIVIDES URL: http://www.isanet.org
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Lehman, Howard. "The Asian Economic Model in Africa: Japan-African Relations in an Age of Globalization" Paper presented at the annual meeting of the ISA's 49th ANNUAL CONVENTION, BRIDGING MULTIPLE DIVIDES, Hilton San Francisco, SAN FRANCISCO, CA, USA, Mar 26, 2008 <Not Available>. 2008-10-08 <http://www.allacademic.com/meta/p253061_index.html>

Lehman, H. P. , 2008-03-26 "The Asian Economic Model in Africa: Japan-African Relations in an Age of Globalization" Paper presented at the annual meeting of the ISA's 49th ANNUAL CONVENTION, BRIDGING MULTIPLE DIVIDES, Hilton San Francisco, SAN FRANCISCO, CA, USA Online <PDF>. 2008-10-08 from http://www.allacademic.com/meta/p253061_index.html

Publication Type: Conference Paper/Unpublished Manuscript Abstract: Japan has emerged in recent years as a leading donor country with African countries. At one level, Japan’s renewed assertiveness in providing foreign aid to Africa is on par with the more active approach by other donor countries. It might appear to some that Japan’s motivations to lend capital and technical assistance to African countries are shared by all lending countries. However, I argue that Japan’s Official Development Policy seeks to break away from the Washington Consensus and to demonstrate its particular leadership position in the donor community. Rather than to focus on domestic bureaucratic politics to explain Japanese ODA or on the specific targets of foreign aid, this chapter seeks to identify the basic features of Japanese national identity that explain its aid policy to Africa. Three themes of Japan’s national economic identity will be highlighted. First, an underlying theme in Japanese foreign aid is its history towards economic development both within Japan and towards Asia. Second, one of the more important aspects underlining Japan’s ODA policy is its relationship to the “Asian economic model.” The main characteristics of Japan’s ODA facilitate self-help and partnership through industrialization, production, and trade. Third, Japan has promoted its own ODA model as distinct from other donors. Japan is the only non-Western country with a history of successful industrialization and Japanese officials have at times distanced themselves from the dominant policy prescriptions embedded in the Washington Consensus.

Japan?s National Economic Identity and African Development: What can Africa Learn from Japan?s Development Experiences?

Japan's Foreign and Policy to Africa: An Assessment of ten Years of the Tokyo International Conference on African Development