scholarly journals Conceptualising Ideational Convergence of China and OECD Donors: Coalition Magnets in Development Cooperation

2020 ◽  
pp. 217-243
Author(s):  
Heiner Janus ◽  
Lixia Tang
Keyword(s):  
Foreign Aid ◽  
Political Change ◽  
Development Assistance ◽  
Development Cooperation ◽  
Development Assistance Committee ◽  
Policy Entrepreneurs ◽  
Mutual Benefit ◽  
Development Discourse ◽  
2030 Agenda ◽  
Discursive Approach

AbstractThis chapter analyses the development discourse on foreign aid to explore areas of convergence between the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD)’s Development Assistance Committee (DAC) donors and Chinese development cooperation. We apply the concept of “coalition magnets”—the capacity of an idea to appeal to a diverse set of individuals and groups, and to be used strategically by policy entrepreneurs to frame interests, mobilise support, and build coalitions. Three coalition magnets are identified: mutual benefit, development results, and the 2030 Agenda. The chapter finds that coalition magnets can be used to influence political change and concludes that applying a discursive approach provides a new conceptual opportunity for fostering closer engagement between OECD-DAC and Chinese development cooperation actors.

scholarly journals On becoming a development cooperation partner: Kazakhstan’s foreign policy, identity, and international norms

2020 ◽  
Vol 11 (2) ◽  
pp. 158-173
Author(s):  
Insebayeva Nafissa
Keyword(s):  
Foreign Aid ◽  
International Development ◽  
Development Aid ◽  
Development Cooperation ◽  
The Other ◽  
Mutual Benefit ◽  
Hybrid Identity ◽  
Emerging Donors ◽  
Cooperation Partner ◽  
Core Features

This article joins the discussion on foreign aid triggered by the rise of multiplicity of emerging donors in international development. Informed by the constructivist framework of analysis, this article evaluates the philosophy and core features of Kazakhstan’s chosen development aid model and explains the factors that account for the construction of distinct aid patterns of Kazakh donorship. This article asserts that Kazakhstan embraces a hybrid identity as a foreign aid provider through combining features and characteristics pertaining to both—emerging and traditional donors. On one hand, it discursively constructed its identity as a “development cooperation partner,” adopting the relevant discourse of mutual benefit, respect for sovereignty, and non-interference, which places it among those providers that actively associate themselves with the community of “emerging donors.” On the other hand, it selectively complies with policies and practices advocated by traditional donors. This study suggests that a combination of domestic and international factors played an important role in shaping Kazakhstan’s understanding of the aid-giving practices, and subsequently determined its constructed aid modality.

scholarly journals DEVELOPING FROM THE SOUTH: SOUTH-SOUTH COOPERATION IN THE GLOBAL DEVELOPMENT GAME

2012 ◽  
Vol 1 (2) ◽  
pp. 225-249 ◽  
Author(s):  
Sean W. Burges
Keyword(s):  
Foreign Aid ◽  
Development Assistance ◽  
Development Assistance Committee ◽  
Global Development ◽  
The South ◽  
The North ◽  
Development Programming

This paper looks at the rise of South-South cooperation as an alternative to traditional foreign aid provision by member agenices of the OECD's Development Assistance Committee. It tracks the rise of South-South cooperation and places it in the context of contemporary approaches to development programming, arguing that there are valuable lessons for the North in this Southern-driven approach to development.

Where is the money? Post-disaster foreign aid flows

2014 ◽  
Vol 20 (5) ◽  
pp. 561-586 ◽  
Author(s):  
Oscar Becerra ◽  
Eduardo Cavallo ◽  
Ilan Noy
Keyword(s):  
Natural Disasters ◽  
Foreign Aid ◽  
Development Assistance ◽  
Humanitarian Aid ◽  
Development Assistance Committee ◽  
Bilateral Aid ◽  
The Past ◽  
Almost All ◽  
Disaster Aid ◽  
Post Disaster

AbstractThis paper describes the flows of aid after large catastrophic natural disasters by using the extensive record of bilateral aid flows, by aid sector, available through the OECD's Development Assistance Committee. For each large donor, the extent of cross-sector reallocation is identified that is occurring in the aftermath of large disasters whereby humanitarian aid increases but other types of aid may decrease. The evidence in this paper suggests that the expectation of large surges in post-disaster aid flows is not warranted given the past diversity of experience of global foreign post-disaster aid by donor and by event. No evidence is found, however, that donors reallocate aid between recipient countries (cross-recipient reallocation). These observations suggest that countries which are predicted to face increasing losses from natural disasters in the coming decades (and almost all are) should be devoting significant resources to prevention, insurance and mitigation, rather than expecting significant post-disaster aid inflows.

The Ethical Foundations of Aid

2018 ◽  
pp. 545-558
Author(s):  
Paul Collier
Keyword(s):  
Financial Institutions ◽  
Poverty Reduction ◽  
Development Assistance ◽  
Humanitarian Aid ◽  
Mutual Benefit ◽  
International Financial Institutions ◽  
Poor Countries ◽  
Ethical Rationale ◽  
The Common

Despite its long history, aid for poor countries has never had a secure ethical rationale. “Poverty reduction” is inadequate: I show that people who are equally poor, but in countries with different circumstances, should not be equally eligible. I ground the rationale for aid in two psychologically instinctive duties of rescue: for humanitarian aid the rescue is from catastrophe, for development assistance it is from mass despair. I argue that the common practice of making aid conditional upon policy—whether economic, as developed by the International Financial Institutions, or social and environmental as required by NGOs—is both unethical and counterproductive. Instead, I develop the advantages and limitations of aid for mutual benefit.

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