WIPO, development cooperation and the Development Agenda

2020 ◽  
pp. 191-208
Author(s):  
Michael Blakeney
Keyword(s):  
Development Cooperation ◽  
Development Agenda

scholarly journals China’s Belt and Road Initiative 2.0

2019 ◽  
Vol 05 (02) ◽  
pp. 233-248
Author(s):  
Jiahan Cao
Keyword(s):  
Sustainable Development ◽  
International Development ◽  
Development Cooperation ◽  
Belt And Road Initiative ◽  
Host Countries ◽  
Developmental Needs ◽  
2030 Agenda ◽  
Development Agenda ◽  
Belt And Road ◽  
Development Goals

As China’s Belt and Road Initiative (BRI) quickly evolves into an updated version for realizing high-quality development, its long-term success will increasingly depend on how well it can earn international legitimacy and credibility. Since sustainability is a critical source of credibility for the BRI, it is necessary to move the BRI forward by amplifying its role as a development agenda and tapping its potential to support global sustainable development and facilitate implementation of the United Nations’ 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development (2030 Agenda) through delivering more public goods to other developing countries. The BRI projects designed to strengthen infrastructure inter-connectivity can greatly fit the developmental needs of countries along the routes and expedite their achievement of sustainable development goals (SDGs), both explicitly and implicitly. Besides, the growing alignment between the BRI and the 2030 Agenda will generate more strengths and opportunities for China to be recognized as an indispensable player in international development cooperation, enhance the capacity of the BRI to manage environmental, social and governance risks in host countries, promote social cohesion and inclusiveness along the routes, and ultimately transcend short-term economic and political interests for China to win the hearts and minds of other stakeholders involved in the BRI.

Brexit: Critical Juncture in the UK’s International Development Agenda?

2018 ◽  
Vol 1 (1) ◽  
pp. 16-19
Author(s):  
Cletus Famous Nwankwo
Keyword(s):  
International Development ◽  
Extended Period ◽  
Development Cooperation ◽  
The European Union ◽  
Policy Reforms ◽  
Critical Juncture ◽  
Development Agenda ◽  
Development Institutions ◽  
New Policies ◽  
Institutional Network

AbstractThis paper raises some questions about Brexit in light of international development cooperation and policy studies. Brexit could be a disrupting critical juncture for UK policy and international development institutions after an extended period as a member of the European Union (EU). Consequently, it calls for investigating ongoing or potential policy reform in the UK’s international development programmes, the identification of policies that will not correspond to the requirements of the UK’s international development agenda in relation to Brexit, and the new policies that will replace them. Furthermore, it argues for the importance of the analysis of the nature and process of such policy reforms, and the attitudes of principal actors towards them. Examining these issues can reveal how a state could untangle and reconfigure itself amidst a complex institutional network of regional states’ association in the 21st Century.

scholarly journals “The Asian Century”: The Transformational Potential of Asian-Led Development Cooperation

2020 ◽  
pp. 519-541
Author(s):  
Anthea Mulakala
Keyword(s):  
Sustainable Development ◽  
Large Scale ◽  
Development Cooperation ◽  
The Sustainable Development ◽  
Profound Impact ◽  
China And India ◽  
2030 Agenda ◽  
Development Agenda ◽  
Policies And Practices

AbstractAsia’s rise is having a profound impact on the policies and practices of development and South-South cooperation (SSC). This chapter describes the contours of these trends in relation to the sustainable development agenda. China and India are dominant players with their large-scale connectivity schemes, increasing multilateralism, and diversified partnerships. The author discusses the controversy, contestation, and opportunities these approaches generate. Finally, this chapter offers a set of recommendations for improving the effectiveness of Asian SSC to deliver the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development.

Policy analysis of Korea’s development cooperation with sub-Saharan Africa: a focus on fragile states

2021 ◽  
Vol ahead-of-print (0) ◽  
pp. 1-25
Author(s):  
Huck-ju Kwon ◽  
Suyeon Lee ◽  
Ye Eun Ha
Keyword(s):  
South Korea ◽  
New Deal ◽  
Development Cooperation ◽  
Sub Saharan Africa ◽  
Fragile States ◽  
Development Agenda ◽  
Sub Saharan ◽  
The Government ◽  
The New Deal ◽  
Ssa Countries

It has been ten years since the New Deal for Engagement in Fragile States was endorsed by the global community. The government of South Korea set out development initiatives to put fragile states at the top of its development agenda and substantially increased its bilateral aid to them. This study analyses the policy orientations of South Korea’s aid to fragile states by exploring the determinants of Korea’s official development assistance to forty-eight sub-Saharan African (SSA) countries over the period 2010-2019 with reference to the top ten OECD donors to SSA countries as a group. The study found that South Korea does not give special consideration to the needs of fragile states. Unfortunately, this result is not only for South Korea but for the top ten OECD donors as well. While South Korea’s aid has been responsive to post-natural disaster displacement in SSA countries, the overall results indicate that donors in general have failed to embrace their commitment to state-building and peacebuilding in the New Deal for Fragile States and the 2030 Agenda. Given that pursuing ‘development and peace’ is a collective and enduring process with shared obligations and responsibilities across countries, donors shall prioritise development efforts on countries that need most assistance.

scholarly journals China’s Embrace of the UN Post-2015 Development Agenda

2016 ◽  
Vol 02 (02) ◽  
pp. 153-168
Author(s):  
Dandan Zhu ◽  
Qiyuan Xu
Keyword(s):  
Sustainable Development ◽  
Sustainable Development Goals ◽  
Development Cooperation ◽  
Global Development ◽  
The Sustainable Development ◽  
Global Partnerships ◽  
Development Agenda ◽  
Push Forward ◽  
Development Goals ◽  
Opening Up

Since the 1990s, the United Nations has issued three agendas for global development cooperation. China’s attitude toward these agendas has also undergone three phases: from cautious passivity at first, to active yet restrained involvement, and to fully embracing them. On January 1, 2016, the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) replaced the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) as the primary goals for global development cooperation in the next 15 years. But there are substantial differences between the SDGs and MDGs, which will inevitably exert significant impacts on China’s domestic development and its involvement in international cooperation. In its response, China should carefully examine its strengths and constraints before making a comprehensive national strategy for sustainable development, so as to advance domestic structural reforms and facilitate its commitment to the implementation of the SDGs. Meanwhile, China should actively push forward international collaboration in line with its opening-up policy, including South-South and South-North cooperation, as well as new mechanisms for trilateral cooperation. All these efforts will contribute to the establishment of new global partnerships for common development and the fulfillment of the SDGs.

Post-2015 Development Agenda: From Concept to Practice

2015 ◽  
Vol 03 (02) ◽  
pp. 1550015
Author(s):  
Ying CHEN
Keyword(s):  
Sustainable Development ◽  
Developing Countries ◽  
International Development ◽  
Sustainable Development Goals ◽  
Development Cooperation ◽  
Global Partnership ◽  
Development Agenda ◽  
Key Issues ◽  
Development Goals ◽  
International Development Cooperation

The latest progress towards achieving the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) shows that MDGs have made a profound difference in people's lives, which is the most important achievement of international development cooperation in past 15 years. Based on experience of formulation and implementation of MDGs, United Nations launched international processes of the Post-2015 Development Agenda including negotiations to define Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). In this paper, comparing processes defining MDGs and SDGs, some new characteristics were identified and some key issues were analyzed. It seems difficult to balance interests of developed and developing countries and there are also great challenges to implement SDGs effectively in the future especially in developing countries. It required building a new global partnership for sustainable development to promote transformation.

scholarly journals Reforming the UN Development System: Impetus, Agenda, and Chinese Proposals

2018 ◽  
Vol 04 (02) ◽  
pp. 193-212
Author(s):  
Dongxiao Chen ◽  
Ruipeng Mao ◽  
Lei Xue
Keyword(s):  
United Nations ◽  
Strong Support ◽  
Development Cooperation ◽  
Poverty Eradication ◽  
Development System ◽  
2030 Agenda ◽  
Development Agenda ◽  
Extensive Consultation ◽  
The United Nations ◽  
Nations Development

Over the past few years, the international community has undertaken proactive and extensive efforts to build a cohesive and effective United Nations Development System (UNDS) with more solid institutions and robust leadership. In line with the requirements set out in the UN 2030 Agenda, the United Nations, under the leadership of its secretary-general Antonio Guterres, came up with a reform package that would help contain the further fragmentation of the UNDS. Guided by the principles of extensive consultation, joint action, and shared benefits, China has been extending strong support for the United Nations’ reform efforts while playing an important role in global development cooperation. As the world’s largest developing country, China insists that any development agenda should always focus on development and that poverty eradication should be the top priority of the UN 2030 Agenda. A number of issues must be addressed when planning for future UNDS reform, in particular the targets and viable ways to promote incremental administrative reform, to improve the existing regional coordinator system, to bridge the funding gap and imbalance between core and non-core resources, and to exemplify emerging countries’ best practices.

The Disruptive Role of MICs in the Development Cooperation System

2020 ◽  
pp. 273-296
Author(s):  
José Antonio Alonso ◽  
Jonathan Glennie
Keyword(s):  
International System ◽  
Development Cooperation ◽  
Middle Income ◽  
Poor Countries ◽  
Middle Income Countries ◽  
Development Agenda ◽  
System P ◽  
Cooperation System ◽  
To Receive

The emergence of middle-income countries (MICs) has increased the complexity of the international system and opened the space to a more comprehensive and universal development agenda. Additionally, through their role as providers of South–South cooperation (SSC), MICs have broken the strict donor/recipient duality that has characterized development cooperation policy and have widened the options for poor countries to receive international support. The chapter discusses the new theoretical foundations on which the development cooperation system should be based, as well as the new boundaries in which this policy should be deployed. Based on these changes, the chapter sheds some light on the role that MICs can play in the new development cooperation system, considering their dual role, as recipients and providers, as well as the implications that this engagement has for the rules, standards, and governance of the cooperation system.

Achieving the sustainable development agenda: The governance – conflict nexus

2017 ◽  
Vol 20 (1) ◽  
pp. 3-18 ◽  
Author(s):  
Håvard Mokleiv Nygård
Keyword(s):  
Sustainable Development ◽  
Development Cooperation ◽  
Special Focus ◽  
Governance System ◽  
The Sustainable Development ◽  
Development Agenda ◽  
Current Perspective ◽  
Peace And Justice ◽  
Development Goals

In September 2015, the international community agreed on 17 new sustainable development goals (SDG) as part of the new sustainable development agenda. This current perspective article discusses development cooperation under the new SDG agenda with a special focus on Norway’s efforts. It provides background on the governance system for development cooperation and discusses particular issues and topics present policy focuses on, and strategies and policies for achieving the SDG agenda for Norway, both at home and abroad. The role of education as a core part of development cooperation is highlighted and discussed throughout. A recurring theme is the role of conflict, stability and fragility for Norwegian development cooperation in particular. As discussed, Norway has a long-standing tradition of involvement in peacebuilding across the globe. Both the explicit link made by the new SDG agenda between peace and justice, through SDG 16, and its other goals bring the UN’s priorities in line with what has been a guiding principle for Norwegian development cooperation for several decades already.

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