India–Africa Partnerships for Food Security and Capacity Building

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The politics of gifts and reciprocity in South–South Cooperation: The case of India's Covid‐19 diplomacy

“…When Indian commentators speak of the country's ‘development diplomacy’, they usually refer to a broad set of relationships and actors which define India's social, economic and political engagements, mainly, but not exclusively, with the Global South. Some Indian analysts take a holistic view of India's development diplomacy and include trade, investment, an array of commercial transactions, concessional finance including elements of ‘non‐commercial’ aid, grants in the form of educational capacity building, knowledge sharing and technology transfers (Aneja, 2015 ; Chakrabarty, 2018 ; Chaturvedi, 2016 ; Dubey & Biswas, 2016 ; Modi & Venkatachalam, 2021 ). Some go further to argue that development diplomacy and cooperation in a broad sense also includes diplomatic participation in a series of regional and global multilateral institutions championing the shared economic and political concerns of the Global South (Aneja, 2015 ; Narlikar, 2020 ), aimed at a normative multilateral order that is equitable and representative of the ‘rising’ South.…”