Abstract: Rising powers such as the BRICS (Brazil, Russia, India, China and South Africa) are taking independent stands and changing the discourse on development cooperation in international fora. India has played a key role in driving this, most recently contributing to the establishment of the BRICS Development Bank and being nominated to host its first presidency.
At home, a new Development Partnership Administration signals a commitment to a more coherent and consistent implementation of development cooperation. However, the recently elected Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP)-led coalition government has yet to articulate a clear development policy despite election pledges to strengthen India’s position as world leader, and Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s proactive foreign policy engagement.
India needs to move on from the rhetoric of South-South Cooperation and ad hoc decisions based on high-level bilateral visits, to a more concrete development agenda. It can play to the strength of its civil society experience in poverty reduction, livelihood promotion and good governance, and it needs to develop appropriate regulatory mechanisms for companies operating its lines of credit or involved in foreign direct investment
Post description
- Publication year: 2015
- Content type: Policy brief
- Form of cooperation: Comprehensive (Lines of credit, grants and loans, and technical assistance).
- Cooperation context: Multilateral
- Sector: Multisectoral
- Institution (publication): Institute of Development Studies (IDS), University of Sussex
- Author (and co-authors): Supriya Roychoudhury, Anuradha Chenoy, Deepta Chopra and Anuradha Joshi
- Keywords: South-South cooperation; Africa; directions for India’s development cooperation; economic diplomacy; private sector; Indian overseas investments; Southern-led development finance institutions
- Link: IDS site