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Conclusions: East Asia and the Future of Foreign Aid

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Chapter 7 concludes the book. It looks back at the four propositions that we set out to test. They concern the reasons that Asian aid is different from aid from the West and its impact in recipient countries. We found that the evidence generally supported our propositions. Nonetheless, our focus was on aid for the poorer countries in East Asia; whether the Asian model of aid would work as well in other regions remains to be investigated by others. We also found that the Asian model of aid, with its focus on growth and human capital, is beginning to be viewed positively by other aid donors. Both East and West may have lessons to learn from each other.

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  1. 1.

    As we reported in Chapter 1, Japanese and Korean aid to Sub-Saharan African countries differs in important ways from their aid to their poorer East Asian neighbors. Chinese aid to the two regions does not vary as much.

  2. 2.

    An important exception is Western European aid to Central and Eastern Europe. On the differences between aid and integration in North America, Europe, and Asia, see Stallings and Kim (2011).

  3. 3.

    See Kim and Kim (2014b) on the relationship between development models and aid models in East Asia.

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    On the debate about the developmental state in East Asia, see the World Bank’s East Asian Miracle (1993) and the reactions to this study as discussed in Chapter 2.

  5. 5.

    For information on the MDGs, see UN (2015a); on the SDGs, see UN (2015b).

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    For more on this distinction and South Korea’s role in the process, see Kim and Lee (2013). For additional analysis, see Kharas (2012); Kindornay and Samy (2012); Eyben and Savage (2013); Mawdsley et al. (2014).

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  1. Watson Institute for International and Public Affairs, Brown University, Providence, Rhode Island, USA

    Barbara Stallings

  2. Graduate School of International Studies, Ewha Womans University, Seoul, Korea (Republic of)

    Eun Mee Kim

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Stallings, B., Kim, E.M. (2017). Conclusions: East Asia and the Future of Foreign Aid. In: Promoting Development. Development Cooperation and Non-Traditional Security in the Asia-Pacific. Palgrave, Singapore. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-10-3165-6_7

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