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    Money Matters: How Japan approaches aid

    In this week's edition: We went behind the numbers to provide you with insights into Japan’s approach to aid. Plus, Uganda’s anti-gay law potential aid fallout, the new boss atop the World Bank, and what are AfDB’s spending priorities?

    By Omar Mohammed // 05 June 2023

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    Japan is one of the world's largest contributors of aid.

    Yet, many in the global development sector know little about the nature of the Asian country’s development strategy.

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      Omar Mohammed is a Foreign Aid Business Reporter based in New York. Prior to joining Devex, he was a Knight-Bagehot fellow in business and economics reporting at Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism. He has nearly a decade of experience as a journalist and he previously covered companies and the economies of East Africa for Reuters, Bloomberg, and Quartz.

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