Development Cooperation and Emerging Powers New Partners or Old Patterns

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.

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. Until recently, he was Global Justice Fellow at the MacMillan Center for International Affairs at Yale University, 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, trained as an economist, has been with German Development Institute / Deutsches Institut fuer Entwicklungspolitik (DIE) as Senior Fellow since 2004, where he also started his professional career in 1980. His main research interests are global governance, rising powers, United Nations, and international development cooperation. 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, since 2009, heads the training department at the German Development Institute. In previous stages of his career, he worked for the German parliament, the Institute of Peace and Development (University Duisburg-Essen), the government of North Rhine Westphalia, the German Advisory Council on Global Change as well as a freelance consultant.

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.