Tagged: Research paper
Abstract: China and India, as re-emerging donors, are not new to Ethiopia and Africa. Both countries have been providing aid to Ethiopia since Emperor Haille Sillasie’s time and to Africa since the end of...
BRICs’ Philosophies for Development Financing and Their Implications for LICs
Abstract: Flows of development financing from the BRICs (Brazil, Russia, India, and China) to low income countries (LICs) have surged in recent years. Unlike aid from traditional donors, BRICs (excluding Russia) view their financing...
Assessment of South-South cooperation and the global narrative on the eve of BAPA+40
Abstract: This research paper gives a brief account of the fast expansion of South-South cooperation (SSC) in volume, modalities and participating countries and institutions. Though SSC is a de facto development compact, there is a tendency...
The Elephant in the Corner? Reviewing India-Africa Relations in the New Millennium
Abstract: As countries of the ‘global South’ seek to challenge existing uneven architectures of economic, political and institutional power, now under different circumstances to those prevailing during the Cold War, relations between African countries...
The Changing Geographies of Foreign Aid and Development Cooperation: Contributions from Gift Theory
Abstract: This paper critically evaluates the ways in which Southern development actors, such as India and China, discursively construct the ‘aid’ element of South-South development cooperation. It draws upon gift theory, something that has...
Trilateral Development Cooperation: Power and Politics in Emerging Aid Relationships
Abstract: Changes are reverberating through the international development system. This article focuses on (re)emerging development actors in the South and their role in setting agendas, challenging current aid orthodoxies, and re- articulating development cooperation...
The emerging foreign assistance policies of India and China: India as a development partner
Abstract: This paper attempts a detailed account and analysis of India as an emerging foreign aid donor, or development partner as it prefers to call itself, analyzing it in the context of the international aid...
Brave New World: A Literature Review of Emerging Donors and the Changing Nature of Foreign Assistance
Abstract: In this paper, we look at the scale and scope of emerging donors, many of which are developing economies themselves. On the basis of a survey of the literature, we find that estimates...
CSOs in Indian Development Cooperation: Towards an Enabling Environment
Abstract: This paper argues that the capacities Indian CSOs have acquired in other developing countries could create a wider impact for India’s official aid, if the government became more willing to incorporate such expertise. The chapter...
An Indian Model of Aid: Rethinking Policy Perspectives
Abstract: From non-aligned movement to the Buenos Aires Plan of Action, and from Accra Agenda to the Busan declaration, global aid architecture has been continuously evolving. There has been an increased global realisation for...