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Foreign Aid and Family at Risk: Role of Foreign Aid to Myanmar

Foreign Aid and Family at Risk: Role of Foreign Aid to Myanmar

Kana Takamatsu
Copyright: © 2014 |Pages: 16
ISBN13: 9781466650312|ISBN10: 1466650311|EISBN13: 9781466650329
DOI: 10.4018/978-1-4666-5031-2.ch006
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Takamatsu, Kana. "Foreign Aid and Family at Risk: Role of Foreign Aid to Myanmar." Contemporary Social Issues in East Asian Societies: Examining the Spectrum of Public and Private Spheres, edited by Mika Markus Merviö, IGI Global, 2014, pp. 106-121. https://doi.org/10.4018/978-1-4666-5031-2.ch006

APA

Takamatsu, K. (2014). Foreign Aid and Family at Risk: Role of Foreign Aid to Myanmar. In M. Merviö (Ed.), Contemporary Social Issues in East Asian Societies: Examining the Spectrum of Public and Private Spheres (pp. 106-121). IGI Global. https://doi.org/10.4018/978-1-4666-5031-2.ch006

Chicago

Takamatsu, Kana. "Foreign Aid and Family at Risk: Role of Foreign Aid to Myanmar." In Contemporary Social Issues in East Asian Societies: Examining the Spectrum of Public and Private Spheres, edited by Mika Markus Merviö, 106-121. Hershey, PA: IGI Global, 2014. https://doi.org/10.4018/978-1-4666-5031-2.ch006

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Abstract

This chapter examines how the foreign aid policy should and should have supported families facing risks by using the case study of Myanmar. The chapter starts by addressing the issue of poverty, which continues to be the gravest risk in the developing countries, and how family could be the cause of poverty as well as the solution of poverty in foreign aid policy discussion. The situation of poverty and migration as a risk management tool are then examined in the second section of the chapter. Interviews with migrant workers in Thailand and Japan were conducted. Finally, there is a discussion about the developments of Myanmar and how the foreign aid and international community has inadequately responded to the democratization of Myanmar and to the needs of its people.

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