Development Cooperation and Emerging Powers

New Partners or Old Patterns

Edited by Sachin Chaturvedi, Thomas Fues, Elizabeth Sidiropoulos

Existing global frameworks for development cooperation are heavily dominated by the experiences of industrialized countries. However, emerging economies have begun to accelerate their development cooperation with other developing countries, and attempts to bring them into existing aid models have been met with caution and reservation.

This expert and topical volume explores the development cooperation policies of China, India, Brazil and South Africa and compares them with those of Mexico and Western actors. In exploring the motivation and execution of these countries’ development policies, the volume will analyze how South-South cooperation has evolved, and where it differs from traditional development cooperation. This vital new collection brings together first-hand experience from a range of national experts from these countries, to provide a forward-looking analysis of global frameworks and the evolution of a possible convergence of traditional and ‘emerging’ development actors.

Contents

Foreword
By Jambu Sundaram

Introduction
Elizabeth Sidiropoulos, Thomas Fues, Sachin Chaturvedi

Part One: South-South Cooperation

Chapter 1: South-South 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: What lessons from the EU experience?
James Mackie

Part Three: New actors, new innovations
Chapter 5: Brazil
Enrique Saravia

Chapter 6: China
ZHOU Hong

Chapter 7: India
Sachin Chaturvedi

Chapter 8: Mexico
Maximo Romero

Chapter 9: South Africa
Elizabeth Sidiropoulos

Chapter 10: Convergence or conflict: Are we moving towards a global consensus on development cooperation and should we?
Thomas Fues, Sachin Chaturvedi and Elizabeth Sidiropoulos

Afterword
Adolf Kloke-Lesch

About the Authors

Dr. Sachin Chaturvedi is a Senior Fellow at the Research and Information System for Developing Countries, a think-tank with the Ministry of External Affairs, Government of India New Delhi. Till recently he was Global Justice Fellow at the MacMillan Center for International Affairs at the 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.

Thomas Fues has been with German Development Institute / Deutsches Institut fuer Entwicklungspolitik (DIE) as Senior Fellow since 2004. His main research interests are global governance, rising powers, United Nations and international development cooperation. His recent publications include articles on the G8/G20, the role of rising powers in the global system, the UN development sector as well as on human rights and global governance. In addition to his research tasks, Dr. Fues, heads the training department at the German Development Institute. Earlier in his career he 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.

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.