Emma Mawdsley
Emma Mawdsley is a Senior Lecturer in the Geography Department at Cambridge University, and a Fellow of Newnham College, Cambridge. Her work on development politics includes research on ‘whose ideas count’ in transnational NGO networks; and emerging state-NGO relations in the 21C; the World Bank’s World Development Report series; and the US’s Millennium Challenge Account. She has been researching the ‘rising powers’ and development cooperation for several years, and has presented her work in a number of academic and policy forums. This is part of a wider interest in the ‘rising powers’, and she has co-led research and writing on contemporary India-Africa relations (with Gerard McCann), and written on China and Africa. She is currently leading a collaborative project funded by DFID to look at the public face of ‘foreign aid’ in China, India, Russia, Poland and South Africa. As well as research on development politics, she continues to research and teach on India’s environmental politics.
Books by Emma Mawdsley
India in Africa
Changing Geographies of Power
Edited by Emma Mawdsley, Gerard McCann
”An indispensable book for those who want to understand the compulsion and politics of recent Chinese and Indian involvement in Africa, written by experts in a language accessible to the non-expert.” Yash Ghai, Activist, and scholar of international law, and Chairman of the Constitution of Kenya Review Commission 2000-2004. Major changes are taking place in the global economy and polity. While China’s relationship to Africa is much examined, knowledge and analysis of India&rsquo… (more information)
From Recipients to Donors
Emerging Powers and The Changing Development Landscape
Emma Mawdsley
Foreign aid has seen enormous changes in the last decade. In the early millennium, it appeared that donor nations might succeed in combating partisan interests, and commit to a new era of coordinated policies and practices. However, the last few years have witnessed a number of challenges to this model: the problematic intrusion of security agendas; inherent difficulties in harmonization and alignment; and difficulties in securing promised finances after the financial crises. One of the key challenges… (more information)