Ownership and Planning Capacity in the Asian-Style Development Cooperation
South Korean Knowledge Sharing Program to Vietnam
- 한국학술연구원
- Korea Observer
- Vol 49, No 2
- 등재여부 : SCOPUS, SSCI, KCI등재
- 2018.06
- 349 - 368 (20 pages)
The rise of Asian ODA donors – Japan, South Korea, China – and their divergence from traditional western donors put forward the question if a distinct Asian-style development cooperation is in the making. In this paper, we attempt to characterize the emergent Asian-style ODA based on donors’ own development experiences and assess its effectiveness in terms of fostering “true” ownership of development partners. One particular case, South Korea’s Knowledge Sharing Program to Vietnam, will illuminate the theoretical issues and practical challenges of the Asian-style ODA, which tends to avoid “political interference” while trying to increase capacities of development partners.
I. Introduction
II. “True” ownership and planning capacity
III. The Vietnamese Transformation: Capitalist Development and ODA Management
IV. Exportation of a Developmental Model via Knowledge Sharing: the KSP in Vietnam
V. KSP as Asian-style ODA: Development Model without Politics?
VI. Concluding remarks