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210. Overcoming Barriers to Effective Environmental Aid: A Comparison between Japan, Germany, Denmark, and the World Bank

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30293814, Mori, Akihisa, 30293814, and Mori, Akihisa

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When developed countries started providing environmental aid to developing countries, they faced three types of barriers that made such aid ineffective: Conflicting concerns, contracting problems, and lack of capacity. Donors have responded over time with changing policy contents and implementing strategies to convince recipient countries to change their own policies. However, they have taken such steps in different ways. This article examines the ways that bilateral and multilateral donors have adjusted their environmental aid and the results of such adjustments, taking Japan as the center of analysis and comparing it with Germany, Denmark, and the World Bank. The main findings are as follows. First, to overcome the barriers, donors changed their strategy for convincing recipients to make policy change and/or shifted their focus to lower income recipients to take advantage of asymmetric power relations, whereas making minor adjustments to initial policy contents and design within the same environmental discourse. Second, responses to the barriers varied among the donors, reflecting their policy orientation in the environmental discourse, their power relationship with the recipients, and their resource mobilization capacity. Third, sustainability and enforcement of the changed policy depends mainly on the policy contents rather than on the policy change strategy.

Published
2011

213. Environmental soft loan program in Asian countries: industrial pollution control or mal-use of foreign aid resources?

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30293814, Mori, Akihisa, 30293814, and Mori, Akihisa

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Several Asian countries have tried to establish environmental soft loan program as a measure for industrial pollution control, with financial and technical assistances from Asian Development Bank, Germany and Japan. However, the program may contradict with OECD's Polluter Pays Principle and may result in inefficient allocation of foreign aid, and may disturb financial market development. This article examines conditions and contexts in which environmental soft loan program can be justified from theoretical arguments and a case study of Japan. Then, it tries to clarify how the recipient countries satisfied the above conditions and contexts through comparative analysis of the program in Indonesia, Thailand, China, the Philippines and Sri Lanka. The author documents that the required conditions and contexts are so severe that only the Philippines could satisfy them, mainly due to mission, impartiality and competency of the Development Bank of the Philippines, as well as availability of environmental technologies and competent consultants.

Published
2008

216. Environmental Governance for Sustainable Development in East Asia

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30293814, Ueta, Kazuhiro, Mori, Akihisa, 30293814, Ueta, Kazuhiro, and Mori, Akihisa

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East Asia has enjoyed rapid industrialization during these two decades. However, some of them have suffered from environmental degradation locally, and others done from regional and global environmental degradation. Green growth and related concepts have been invented to overcome the trade-off between economic growth and environmental conservation. But is it enough for realizing sustainable development in East Asia? This article makes critical review of the Environmental Kuznets Curve (EKC) hypothesis to show its role in the development of environmental economics. Then it examines economic mechanism that promote environmental degradation locally and globally to indicate what hinders environmental governance for sustainable development in East Asia.

Published
2007

225. A Case of Paralytic Poliomyelitis Associated with Poliovirus Vaccine Strains in Hokkaido, Japan

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Miyoshi, Masahiro, primary, Yoshizumi, Shima, additional, Jinushi, Masaru, additional, Ishida, Setsuko, additional, Okui, Toyo, additional, Okano, Motohiko, additional, Shouji, Masayo, additional, Tanaka, Sanae, additional, Saigusa, Junichi, additional, Mori, Akihisa, additional, Tanabe, Hiroki, additional, Yamaguchi, Ryo, additional, Nishimura, Yorihiro, additional, and Shimizu, Hiroyuki, additional

Published
2010
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