Sustainable Development Goals and Japan: sustainability overshadows poverty reduction

Tatsufumi Yamagata

Asia-Pacific Development Journal, 2016, vol. 23, issue 2, 1-17

Abstract: The Development Cooperation Charter of Japan, which replaced the Official Development Assistance (ODA) Charter in February 2015, drives the country’s cooperation towards non-poor countries and non-poverty issues. The Sustainable Development Goals put Japan forward in these directions. As a result, the country’s focus on global poverty reduction is overshadowed by its national interests and sustainability under the concept of universality, which is a core principle of the Goals and differentiates them from the Millennium Development Goals.

Keywords: Sustainable Development Goals; Official Development Assistance (ODA); ODA Charter; Development Cooperation Charter; Japan; universality (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: F35 F55 O20 O53 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2016
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