Development Cooperation and Emerging Powers

The current framework of development cooperation is dominated by the experiences of industrialized countries. But emerging economies have begun to accelerate their own development programmes, and attempts to bring them into existing aid models have been met with caution and reservation.

This expert, topical volume explores the development policies of Brazil, China, India, Mexico and South Africa, analysing how South-South cooperation has evolved and where it differs from traditional development cooperation. This vital new collection brings together first-hand experience from these countries to provide a forward-looking analysis of the current global architecture of development cooperation and of the possible convergence of traditional and emerging development actors.

Table of Contents

Foreword by Jomo Kwame Sundaram

Introduction
Elizabeth Sidiropoulos, Thomas Fues, Sachin Chaturvedi

Part One: South-South cooperation

Chapter 1: Development cooperation: contours, evolution and scope
Sachin Chaturvedi

Chapter 2: South-South economic cooperation for a better future
Manmohan Agarwal

Part Two: Lessons from the experiences of traditional aid policies

Chapter 3: Sixty years of development aid: shifting goals and perverse incentives
Ross Herbert

Chapter 4: Aid effectiveness and emerging donors: lessons from the EU experience
James Mackie

Part Three: New actors, new innovations

Chapter 5: Brazil: towards innovation in development cooperation
Enrique Saravia

Chapter 6: China’s evolving aid landscape: crossing the river by feeling the stones
Zhou Hong

Chapter 7: India and development cooperation: expressing Southern solidarity
Sachin Chaturvedi

Chapter 8: Mexico: linking Mesoamerica
Maximo Romero

Chapter 9: South Africa: development, international cooperation and soft power
Elizabeth Sidiropoulos

Chapter 10: Conclusion: towards a global consensus on development cooperation
Thomas Fues, Sachin Chaturvedi and Elizabeth Sidiropoulos

Afterword by Adolf Kloke-Lesch

About the Authors:

Elizabeth Sidiropoulos is the national director of the South African Institute of International Affairs (SAIIA) and the editor-in-chief of the South African Journal of International Affairs. Her research focus is on South African foreign policy and the impact of emerging powers on Africa’s global engagement. Before her current appointment she was director of studies at SAIIA and research director at the South African Institute of Race Relations, where she was editor of the highly acclaimed Race Relations Survey (now the South Africa Survey), an annual publication documenting political and constitutional developments, and socio-economic disparities in South Africa.

Thomas Fues, trained as an economist, has been with the German Development Institute (DIE) as senior fellow since 2004. His main research interests are global governance, rising powers, the United Nations and international development cooperation. Recent publications include articles on the G8/G20, the role of rising powers in the global system, and the UN development sector, as well as on human rights and global governance. Since 2009 he has headed the training department at DIE and he has worked for the German parliament, the Institute of Peace and Development (University Duisburg-Essen), the government of North Rhine Westphalia and the German Advisory Council on Global Change, as well as acting as a freelance consultant.

Dr Sachin Chaturvedi is a senior fellow at the Research and Information System for Developing Countries, a think tank sponsored by the Indian Ministry of External Affairs. Until recently he was Global Justice Fellow at the MacMillan Center for International Affairs at Yale University, USA, where he worked on issues related to global governance and access to innovation and technology. He is author of two books and has published several research articles in various prestigious journals.