Rising Donors and the New Narrative of ‘South–South’ Cooperation: what prospects for changing the landscape of development assistance programmes?

Charity begins at home? Setting a future research agenda for national identity and charitable ethnocentrism

“…Defined by the Organisation for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD, 2015) as financial flows to countries and territories "administered with the promotion of the economic development and welfare of developing countries as its main objective", the UK Government and other European Union member states reiterated their commitment to invest 0.7% of gross national income on ODA from 2013 (Department for International Development, 2015). According to the UK Aid Network (Dodd, 2015) the UK was one of only four EU countries to meet this target in 2015, whilst at the same time, emerging donor countries such as Brazil, China and India have increased their international development budgets (referred to as 'South-South co-operation' by Quadir, 2013).…”

Introduction: Beyond Aid – The Future of Development Cooperation

“…The contributors provide a rich and varied menu of studies around the issue's central themes, bringing fresh insights and understanding into today's rapidly changing domain of development cooperation. The subjects covered in the various articles range from exploring the importance of knowledge in the development cooperation experience of emerging economies such as Indonesia; the challenges involved in the policy formulation and implementation of triangular cooperation within a sometimes contradictory set of processes embedded in South-South cooperation (Quadir 2013); the dynamics of 'two-way interaction' between donors and recipients in chains of knowledge creation; and an important reassessment and updating of the critical data upon which estimates of China's foreign aid disbursements are made and understood in international comparison.…”

Ethnic moralities and reciprocity: towards an ethic of South-South relations

“…Nel and Taylor (2013) suggest that trade policies adversely affecting Southern neighbours can be traced to the material interests of dominant class alliances of IBSA countries. In same vein, Fahimul Quadir (2013) finds that overseas development agenda of Southern donors are motivated by national self-interest and priorities and concludes that their commitment to horizontal cooperation does not move beyond rhetoric (Quadir 2013: 335). Indeed, normative critiques show that South-South cooperation and relations in practice are contradictory and complicated by interests of the state and national elites.…”