ABSTRACT
This chapter focuses on the emerging needs in the international aid community. It outlines the basic perspectives and characteristics of Japanese growth support. The chapter examines the major growth studies and analytical tools that have been extensively used by researchers and donors. It also examines the growth support approaches of major donors, such as the World Bank, the United Kingdom (UK), the United States (US), and Germany. The chapter analyzes how Japanese growth support can be complementary to the Western way and will provide examples in Asia and non-Asian countries. Certainly, Japan’s approach to development assistance shares many commonalities with the Western approach. Japan is more interested in the real sector, with attention to the abilities and problems of individual firms in the private sector that play a key role in the market economy, such as technologies, human resources, productive elements, demand trends, products and commodities, industrial structures, marketing, logistics efficiency in individual industrial sectors and regions in recipient countries.
