Introduction: Politics, Institutions, Donor and Recipient Relationships -- South Korea: A Case of Effective Aid -- Ghana: A Case of Aid Success? -- The Politics of U.S. Aid to Nigeria -- Zambia: Aid Dependency and Dependent Development -- Myanmar: A Sub-Saharan African Case in Southeast Asia --...

"This book represents an initial attempt to compare China, Japan, and South Korea, three close geographical and cultural neighbors whose developmental trajectories, though divergent in the past, have been moving more recently toward convergence"--