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Japan's ‘common but differentiated’ approach to sustainable development and climate change in Africa / kim, Soyeun

kim, Soyeun	Journal Article
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2012.

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In the midst of heightened apprehension of the climate risks to development, major donors in Africa have begun to take environmental issues seriously in their aid agenda by setting up various climate policy initiatives and programs. In keeping with the international donors' efforts, Japan has also emphasised the environmental issues in its development cooperation with Africa. The article aims to assess Japan's efforts to address sustainable as well as 'climate-proof' development for Africa by looking into the process of the Tokyo International Conference for African Development (TICAD). Through contextualising the TICAD environmental agenda within Japan's overall greening process since the 1990s, this chapter argues for Japan's 'common but differentiated' environmental approach to Africa as presented for the TICAD process. The study introduces two key 'green' policy concerns, namely environmental ODA and climate change. Through analysing policy documents and speeches, it brings in debates on the major trends of Japan's environmental and climate ODA to Africa to examine the meaningfulness of the agenda as presented at TICAD.

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Japan ; Africa ; Climate Change ; TICAD

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Overseas development aid as spatial fix? examining South Korea’s Africa policy / Kim, Soyeun; Gray, Kevin

Gray, Kevin	Article
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This paper examines the extent to which South Korea’s developmental aid programme to Africa can be understood as a form of ‘aid as imperialism’. We argue against the depiction of a crude determinism between the ‘interests of capital’ and the international activism of the South Korean state through aid provision. Drawing on Harvey’s theory of the new imperialism, we argue that, while the structural transformations in the South Korean political economy explain Seoul’s ODA programme at a general level, it is strongly influenced by geopolitical objectives which often undermine South Korea’s ability to pursue distinctly mercantile aims.

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Global South ; Aid and Capital Flows ; Investment Flows ; BRICS and Rising Powers

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