From Recipients to Donors : Emerging Powers and the Changing Development Landscape

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About the author; Contents; Tables and boxes; Acknowledgements; Abbreviations; Introduction; Terms and definitions; The importance of the (re-)emerging donors and development partners; Box 0.1 Cuba's aid ignored by the media?; Chapter outline; 1 | Contexts: the rising powers and mainstream foreign aid; Changing global geographies of wealth and power; Foreign aid; Box 1.1 Japan's focus on infrastructure and productivity; Box 1.2 Summary of the Paris Declaration; Box 1.3 Summary of the Accra Agenda for Action; Conclusions

2 | Histories and lineages of non-DAC aid and development cooperationCold War geopolitics, fraternity and competition: the politics of socialist development cooperation; The Non-Aligned Movement; The United Nations: formalizing South-South cooperation; The creation of OPEC and the Gulf donors; The 'new' EU states; Specific drivers for emerging donors; Experiences as recipients; Conclusions; 3 | The (re-)emerging development partners today: institutions, recipients and flows; Definitions and data; Table 3.1 The 2011 figures for non-DAC countries reporting to DAC

Box 3.1 Chinese 'aid' to AfricaHow much do the NDDs contribute to foreign aid volumes?; Box 3.2 The (re-)emerging partners and the UN World Food Programme; The institutional organization of non-DAC development assistance; Transparency and accountability; Conclusions; 4 | Modalities and practices: the substance of (re-)emerging development partnerships; Recipients of non-DAC foreign aid and development cooperation; Modalities of NDD foreign aid and development assistance; Box 4.1 Chinese support for agricultural productivity in Africa; Box 4.2 Social policy: Brazil's newest export?

Boundaries and conditionalities: two key debatesConclusions; 5 | Discourse, imagery and performance: constructing non-DAC development assistance; Introduction; Theorizing the symbolic and discursive in Western foreign aid; The virtue of reciprocity: South-South development cooperation; Table 5.1 The symbolic claims of Western donors and Southern development cooperation partners; Box 5.1 Eight principles of Chinese development assistance; Table 5.2 What the symbolic regimes of Western donors and Southern development cooperation obscure; Being Western, looking east and south: Poland

Conclusions

Contesting hegemony: VenezuelaBox 5.2 The San José Accord; Conclusion; 6 | Institutional overtures, challenges and changes: changing development governance; Introduction; The nature and purpose of global development governance; Box 6.1 China and foreign aid governance in the Pacific; The debate over greater coordination and cooperation; Dialogue and change within the dominant institutions of the international aid regime; Regional institutions and other multilaterals; Triangular and trilateral development cooperation; Box 6.2 Brazil and TDC; Governance regimes within recipient countries

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