Japan, Korea, and China: Styles of ODA in East Asia
East Asian donors have come to play an increasingly important role in the international foreign aid regime over the past couple of decades. Japan, Korea, and China are the leading actors from the region and have provided many tens of billions of dollars to countries in Asia itself, as well as sub Saharan Africa (SSA) and Latin America.1 In addition, they have taken an active part in international discussions of foreign aid and have suggested themselves as models of development that recipient nations might follow.