Economic and Policy Lessons from Japan to Developing Countries

01 02 Written by fifteen leading academics from the Japan Society for International Development (JASID), this book undertakes a review of Japan's economic development over the previous 150 years, and seeks to clarify Japanese priorities in domestic and foreign policy for the coming decades. Contributors from a variety of disciplines evaluate Japan's own experience in achieving economic development, focusing on topical issues such as the role of the environment, community governance and disaster management. Globalization and economic growth has also brought about a sea-change in Japan's development cooperation policy; the new orientation of this policy is explored in full. This book will be a fruitful resource for policymakers in developing nations as well as academics with an interest in the modernization of non-Western societies. 19 02 Authored by the Japan Society for International Development (JASID), an organisation founded in 1990 to exchange ideas and experiences in development cooperation JASID pioneers an interdisciplinary approach, with members including academics, researchers, journalists and practitioners Covers 150 years of Japanese experiences in development, focusing on social policies such as education, health and rural development alongside economic concerns Explores little-studied areas such as resource and energy management, community governance and local development, and the implications that these issues will have for developing nations 04 02 Introduction PART I: ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT IN THE POST-WAR PERIOD Macroeconomic Policy with Particular Reference to Rapid Economic Growth Industrial and Trade Policy Land and Public Infrastructure Management Resource Policy and Domestic Origins of Foreign Aid Income Distribution and the Standard of Living PART II: HUMAN AND SOCIAL DEVELOPMENT The Japanese Experience and Endogenous Development Rural Development: the Role of Rural Livelihood Improvement Educational Development Experience Public Health Policies and Health Services PART III: GLOBALIZATION AND ITS INFLUENCE ON DEVELOPMENT COOPERATION Opening of the Economy and Structural Reforms Integration of Global Concerns into ODA The Evolution of Environmental Policy Disaster Management and Policy PART IV: NEW CONCERNS, NEW STAKEHOLDERS Human Security and Peace-Building Paradigm NGO Experiences 31 02 An interdisciplinary discussion of Japan's experiences in development since the Second World War, and the light that this has shed on the developmen