Recent trends of the educational assistance policy at the time of economic recession.

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This research project investigates recent trends of the educational assistance policy in the time of economic recession. The method of this research are literature analysis, and data analysis. Discussions at major international assistance agencies like OECD/DAC,UNESCO,UNDP,are analyzed, using documents published from these agencies. Educational assistance is now shifting from the higher education, and vocational/technical education toward the primary education, but many agencies face difficulty of finding any effective assistance target to develop the basic education in developing countries.As the data analysis, the cluster analysis of donor countries was carried out to breaking down them into several cluster according to the share of ODA of each major purpose. It found out two major clusters, one of them emphasizes the economic infrastructure and production assistance like Japan. Italy, while another cluster emphasizes the social infrastructure like France, Australia and so on.Also the same cluster analysis was undertaken to 170 recipient countries according to form what countries they receive ODA.The result shows that there are (1) one-country-dominated recipient countries where almost 100 % of ODA come from a particular donor country, (2) multi-donors assisted recipient countries, which receive ODA not from one dominant donor country but from many donor countries, (3) pay-back countries which have already graduated from recipient countries and are now paying back ODA lent in previous time.