G20 Rising Powers in the Changing International Development Landscape by Unknown

Author:Unknown
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 9783031078576
Publisher: Springer International Publishing

G20 Rising Powers and South–South Development Cooperation: Trends and Features

Samiratou Dipama1

(1)Department of Political Science and International Relations, Tokat Gaziosmanpaşa University, Tokat, Turkey

Samiratou Dipama

Email: [email protected]

Keywords

South–South development cooperation (SSDC)Rising powersGroup of twenty (G20)Bilateral/multilateral aid

Introduction

The emergence of rising donors has brought incremental changes to the international development landscape. Most of these emerging donors promote South–South development cooperation (SSDC) as an alternative to the traditional North–South model of development cooperation. Although rising donors are not a homogenous group, they nonetheless share some commonalities such as their emphasis on win–win cooperation, capacity building, unconditional aid and their larger understanding of the concept of development cooperation. The increasing assertiveness of these emerging donors in the field of development cooperation has raised concerns among the international community of traditional donors; they fear that observed differences between the development cooperation modalities of emerging donors and the modalities of traditional donors might pose serious threats to the effectiveness of development cooperation. In parallel to the rise in financial, technical and political might of emerging donors from the Global South, rising donors have increasingly raised their voices for potential reforms of the UN development system, which has for long been dominated by developed countries. In this context, South–South development cooperation (SSDC) is increasingly considered as an effective model of development cooperation, which needs to be strengthened to increase the achievement of the UN Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). Despite the existence of a restricted number of studies dealing with rising powers in development cooperation, the literature lacks studies on the analytical and empirical assessment of rising powers’ policies in the field of development cooperation from a holistic perspective. This article’s comparative analysis of G20 rising powers’ SSDC practices in development cooperation aims to fulfill the lacunae in the existing literature and to diversify the G20 relevant studies in the context of development, most specifically.

Given the above, this study aims to explore the main characteristics of selected six G20 rising powers’ policies and practices in the field of SSDC, namely Brazil, China, India, Russia, South Africa and Turkey. This chapter will first overview the concepts of foreign aid and South–South development cooperation. Thereafter, it will comparatively assess rising powers’ development aid policies and practices by taking into consideration multiple criteria, including bilateral versus multilateral aid, core versus non-core multilateral contributions and the geographical and sectoral distribution of aid by focusing on the period between 2006 and 2016. In line with this assessment, this last section compares the G20 rising donors’ development aid across these factors.

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