ABSTRACT
This chapter outlines the technical assistance of the Japan International Cooperation Agency, which supported economic development in Zambia through the creation of an enabling environment for promoting trade and investment. This technical assistance, called the Strategic Action Initiative for Economic Development Programme, or alternatively, the Triangle of Hope concept, paid special attention to how best successful development experiences in East Asia could be utilised in the present development challenges faced in Africa under the South–South Cooperation framework. The chapter also endeavours to show a concrete example of how Dato’ J. Jegathesan, as a Malaysian expert with close to 30 years’ hands-on experience in helping the development of Malaysia, has collaborated with Zambian officials and the private sector in an attempt to help create an ideal investment environment, both administrative and physical, for private sector investment, and, subsequently, to realise country-led trade and investment promotion initiatives through intensive face-to-face dialogues.
