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Common goals and differential commitments: the role of emerging economies in global development

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  • Besharati, Neissan Alessandro

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The following discussion paper explores the heated debate around ‘common goals and differential commitments’ in international development cooperation. It tries to capture the views and positions of the so-called ‘emerging economies’ on their role and contribution to global development and the post-2015 agenda. It explains the divergence between North-South and South-South cooperation with regard to their historical narratives, conceptual paradigms, delivery approaches, functions and capacity. It highlights the importance of standard-setting, monitoring, accountability and peer-review but it also explains the technical challenges and political tensions in bringing the ‘Southern providers’ into the regimes and systems led by the OECD-DAC and the current post-Busan Global Partnership. The paper explains the challenges of categorising the new development partners, and defining and measuring the quantum, quality and effectiveness of their development cooperation activities. It stresses the importance of developing a framework for monitoring and evaluating South-South cooperation and the identification of appropriate institutional platforms for such discussions to take place. The paper is based on empirical research and engagement with numerous Southern stakeholders and offers concrete policy proposals for the different development partners involved in the debate.

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  • Besharati, Neissan Alessandro, 2013. "Common goals and differential commitments: the role of emerging economies in global development," IDOS Discussion Papers 26/2013, German Institute of Development and Sustainability (IDOS).
  • Handle: RePEc:zbw:diedps:262013
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    1. Jonathan Glennie & Nilima Gulrajani & Andy Sumner & Myles Wickstead, 2019. "A proposal for a new universal development commitment," WIDER Working Paper Series wp-2019-119, World Institute for Development Economic Research (UNU-WIDER).
    2. Haug, Sebastian, 2021. "Mainstreaming South-South and triangular cooperation: Work in progress at the United Nations," IDOS Discussion Papers 15/2021, German Institute of Development and Sustainability (IDOS).
    3. Bracho, Gerardo, 2015. "In search of a narrative for Southern providers: the challenge of the emerging economies to the development cooperation agenda," IDOS Discussion Papers 1/2015, German Institute of Development and Sustainability (IDOS).
    4. Sidiropoulos, Elizabeth, 2019. "South Africa’s changing role in global development structures: being in them but not always of them," IDOS Discussion Papers 4/2019, German Institute of Development and Sustainability (IDOS).
    5. Andy Sumner & Nilima Gulrajani & Myles Wickstead & Jonathan Glennie, 2020. "A Proposal for a New Universal Development Commitment," Global Policy, London School of Economics and Political Science, vol. 11(4), pages 478-485, September.
    6. Ali, Murad, 2018. "Monitoring and evaluation in South-South Cooperation: the case of CPEC in Pakistan," IDOS Discussion Papers 1/2018, German Institute of Development and Sustainability (IDOS).
    7. Klingebiel, Stephan, 2017. "Rising powers and the provision of transnational public goods: conceptual considerations and features of South Africa as a case study," IDOS Discussion Papers 3/2017, German Institute of Development and Sustainability (IDOS).
    8. Fues, Thomas, 2018. "Investing in the behavioural dimensions of transnational cooperation: a personal assessment of the Managing Global Governance (MGG) Programme," IDOS Discussion Papers 12/2018, German Institute of Development and Sustainability (IDOS).
    9. Bracho, Gerardo, 2017. "The troubled relationship of the emerging powers and the effective development cooperation agenda: history, challenges and opportunities," IDOS Discussion Papers 25/2017, German Institute of Development and Sustainability (IDOS).

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