Japan’s ODA to Developing Countries in the Health Sector: Overall Trend and Future Prospects
Japan’s ODA to Developing Countries in the Health Sector: Overall Trend and Future Prospects
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日本对发展中国家卫生领域的官方发展援助:总体趋势与未来展望
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10.1007/978-981-19-4029-3_3
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2022
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Kawai Saori
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Pires de Campos Rodrigo;Kawai Saori
This chapter identifies the overall trends of Japan’s official development assistance (ODA) policies for the health sector in developing countries from 1990 to 2020 and their prospects, given the COVID-19 pandemic. The history of Japan’s ODA is directly related to the post-Second World War era when Great Britain was engaged in continued efforts to maintain its influence in the former colonies of the Asia–Pacific region, including Australia, Canada, Ceylon (presently Sri Lanka), India, New Zealand, and Pakistan. In January 1950, a Commonwealth Conference on Foreign Affairs was held in Colombo, Ceylon, 1 during which the Colombo Plan for Cooperative Economic and Social Development in Asia and the Pacific was conceived. The Colombo Plan, which evolved from the original group of seven Commonwealth nations into an intergovernmental organization composed of 27 members, including non-Commonwealth countries, was officially launched in July 1951 (The Colombo Plan 2021). Japan was affiliated with the Colombo Plan in October 1954, launching, at the time, its first international technical cooperation projects. Similar to other countries’ initiatives to institutionalize their foreign aid activities, in March 1961, Japan established the Overseas Economic Cooperation Fund (OECF) as the implementing agency for loan aid, which assumed management over the Southeast Asia Development Cooperation Fund from the Export–Import Bank of Japan (JEXIM). In June 1962, Japan launched the Overseas Technical Cooperation Agency (OTCA) to administer Japan’s technical assistance. In August 1974, the Japan International Cooperation Agency