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Official Development Assistance of Japan in Brazil: The Link Between Aid and Diplomatic Ties
Author(s) -
Laborde Carranco Adolfo A.
Publication year - 2011
Publication title -
latin american policy
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.195
H-Index - 4
eISSN - 2041-7373
pISSN - 2041-7365
DOI - 10.1111/j.2041-7373.2011.00028.x
Subject(s) - politics , political science , period (music) , work (physics) , economy , world war ii , cold war , development economics , economic history , geography , economics , law , engineering , mechanical engineering , physics , acoustics
The main goal of this work is to explain the economic and political evolution and motivation that led to Japan's granting Brazil official development aid (ODA) between 1960 and 2008. A “realistic” focus is used, because it allows the characteristics of such policy to be highlighted with each period studied. The case of Brazil was analyzed, taking into consideration diplomatic relations between the two countries and the ODA funds that Japan gave Brazil over the period. Two important facts partially explain the relationship between Japan and Brazil: 1) Brazil, as well as Mexico and Peru, received significant migratory flows from Japan from the beginning of the 20th century through the middle of the 1970s, and 2) Brazil has been one of Japan's most important commercial associates in the region since World War Two.