Official Development Assistance Between Japan And The Later Developing Countries Of ASEAN

With the development of International Aid from a relatively single North-South cooperation to a South-South cooperation pattern,the situation and connotation of international development cooperation have been expanded.Aid began to lean to the poor areas.The four new member countries that ASEAN joined later became a hot area for Japanese government development assistance.In recent years,China has put forward the strategy of "one belt and one way" and the geographical location of the neighboring countries.These four countries are not only the hot spot for Japanese aid,but also the important areas for China to carry out foreign economic cooperation,and the assistance of the two countries will inevitably be contrasted and competing in the four countries.As a big foreign aid country,Japan has a lot of reference significance for China in terms of time,quantity and quality of aid in recent years.Based on the relevant data and documents of government agencies,this paper makes a comparative analysis of Japanese Official Development Assistance to Cambodia,Laos,Myanmar and Vietnam from the aspects of aid scale,main aid methods and specific aid projects main flow areas.Japanese assistance to CLMV countries resumed in the 1990 s,and the scale of assistance has increased stepwise since 2010.Social infrastructure and agricultural sector have always been the focus of J CLMV assistance from Japan.In recent years,the Japanese Official Development Assistance has been shifting to CLMV economic infrastructure area.Through the distribution map of ASEAN countries cumulative aid investment in various fields,it is found that other ASEAN high-income countries receive far more assistance in the area of economic infrastructure than CLMV countries.By comparing the trend in the main areas of aid,it is found that with the rapid economic development of CLMV countries,their economic infrastructure has begun to grow on a large scale since 2010.The proportion of social basic fields in economic basic fields is related to the level of economic development of various countries.This paper uses empirical analysis to further verify the correlation.It is found that there is a certain correlation between the level of national income and Japanese preference for providing economic or social assistance to ASEAN countries.In a word,the higher the income level,the more inclined Japan is to provide economic assistance to ASEAN countries,and the more social assistance to low-income countries.Finally,the empirical analysis of the aid effect of CLMV countries shows that Japanese Official Development Assistance to CLMV countries does have a positive role in promoting their economic growth,while Japanese Official Development Assistance to other ASEAN high-income countries does not reflect its role in promoting economic growth.Compared with other ASEAN high-income countries,Japan's current Official Development Assistance to CLMV tends to focus on social assistance,and has a significant role in promoting its economic growth.China should increase its assistance to the developing countries of ASEAN and formulate assistance plans in accordance with their basic national conditions and development goals.We should strengthen friendly relations with ASEAN developing countries through social assistance,gradually shift from social assistance to economic assistance according to their economic development progress,improve the effectiveness of assistance to promote ASEAN economic integration and further strengthen Chinese economic and trade cooperation with CLMV countries.