New Donors and Old Practices: The Role of China in the Multilateral System

Haan, Arjan de; Warmerdam, Ward

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“…21 These include grants, interest-free loans, and concessional loans. 19 For a further elaboration on the similarities and differences, especially the convergences and divergences of Chinese foreign aid with that of traditional donors see de Haan and Warmerdam (2013). 20 Further evidence of this can be found in the government of the Netherlands' recent requirement that foreign development aid also benefits the Netherlands.…”

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“…This alarmism and perceived differences has led many practitioners, policymakers, and scholars to debate the notion that China's (re-)emergence, and increasingly significant relations with the developing world, might be undermining decades' worth of Western efforts to promote good governance (Freedom House 2009;Melber 2007), increase social welfare (Kaplinsky et al 2007), and achieve Millennium Developmental Goals in developing countries, while others argue that China is a strong supporter and promoter of the MDGs (IOSCPRC 2011;Tjønneland et al 2006;Wissenbach 2009). This fear is partly premised on China's policy rhetoric of respecting recipient national sovereignty, non-interference in internal affairs, non-conditionality, and the desire of mutually beneficial economic relations with developing countries (IOSCPRC 2005(IOSCPRC , 2011MoFA 2006;Ping 1999), which seems to be in ideological opposition to traditional donor ideologies (de Haan and Warmerdam 2013). It is further driven by Western perceptions that China is aiding and abetting ruthless dictators (Freedom House 2009;Rotberg 2008a, b;Taylor 2007), and supporting their corrupt regimes, allowing them to stay in power.…”

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Beyond the Debates of Which is Best: Investigating the Complementarity of Chinese and Western Aid, and Possible Lessons from China’s Development

Warmerdam

2014

Fudan J. Hum. Soc. Sci.

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This paper will argue that contrary to popular opinion, Chinese engagement in the developing world is not too different from traditional donor engagement. In fact, the composition of similarities and differences among China and the broad variety of traditional donors indicate that it should be seen as complementary. In order to justify this view, an ideological categorization of foreign aid determinants is employed to analyze China's foreign aid program since the 1950s; finding that Chinese foreign aid since 1978 falls broadly within the category of liberal internationalism. The preferred modalities of Chinese aid are presented, contextualized by China's own developmental experience, its experience as a donor, and its own developmental needs. The complementarity with traditional donor modalities is assessed. Finally, lessons from China's own development will be presented and their transferability assessed. This paper will conclude that while China's aid is not too dissimilar from traditional donor aid, and areas of complementarity do exist; the most important lesson from China is that a country leadership committed to socio-economic development, employing policy design mechanisms that identify instruments most suited to local socio-economic and political conditions, is most conducive to socio-economic development.

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Beyond the Debates of Which is Best: Investigating the Complementarity of Chinese and Western Aid, and Possible Lessons from China’s Development

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‘Aid with Chinese characteristics’: competitive and/or complementary?

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2020

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Equity, Evaluation, and International Cooperation

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2022

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This book considers whether South–South Cooperation (SSC) is any different from other international partnerships in practice. This question often gets lost in conventional scholarship on SSC and international cooperation, which privileges macro-level narratives of how cooperation mechanisms fit within geopolitical concerns and shape the outcomes of foreign aid. This book instead offers an answer from the ground up. It highlights two main lessons from the close examination of the ecosystem of international cooperation projects in the urban water-and-sanitation sector in Maputo, Mozambique. First, the book shows that macro labels attributed to international cooperation reflect very little about how cooperation projects operate on the ground and the equity consequences of their work. Second, how projects are designed, implemented, and evaluated does matter to the quality of learning that emanates from partnerships. Beyond the geopolitical and technical proximities favored by the SSC discourse, this book argues that what matters in practice is whether hierarchy or heterarchy is institutionalized in the governance of cooperation projects; whether project partners are locally embedded in shared work spaces; and whether practitioners value flexibility and recognize the epistemic value of learning from all partners as peers. A strong evaluation culture within the international development industry, however, still subjugates such equity-based concerns and deep learning in projects to accountability, reinforcing orthodox power asymmetries in cooperation and sustaining epistemic and distributive injustice. This book instead provides a framework for how project evaluations, as a key narrative instrument of development, can instead promote distributive, procedural, and epistemic justice in international cooperation projects.

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New Donors and Old Practices: The Role of China in the Multilateral System

Cited by 17 publications

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Beyond the Debates of Which is Best: Investigating the Complementarity of Chinese and Western Aid, and Possible Lessons from China’s Development

Beyond the Debates of Which is Best: Investigating the Complementarity of Chinese and Western Aid, and Possible Lessons from China’s Development

‘Aid with Chinese characteristics’: competitive and/or complementary?

Equity, Evaluation, and International Cooperation

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