The 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development has successfully set a normative framework for global cooperation, including development cooperation. Yet, the implementation of this agenda is characterised by power struggles and unresolved contestations. Hence, it is uncertain whether the 2030 Agenda will be achieved. Therefore, a key question is how different narratives and norms in development cooperation can be reconciled to achieve the 2030 Agenda. As a response and guiding framework, this chapter explores the concept of “contested cooperation”, drawing on research on contested global governance and contested multilateralism. Applying this conceptual perspective not only yields theoretical insights but also helps in better understanding the practical challenges that development actors face in implementing the 2030 Agenda.
The study of industry associations occupies an uneasy ground in development economics. There is much empirical work that shows that industry associations fulfil important developmental roles in developing countries, often compensating for inadequacies in the business environment. Yet their status as institutions capable of generating growth is compromised because of the rent-seeking behaviour they embody. We study two different technology-based industries, namely software services and biotechnology, both of which formed industry associations to influence government policy and to aid the growth of their member firms, paying attention to their motivations for setting up, detailing the policies they sought to influence and their success as organisations. L'�tude des associations d'industrie occupe une position difficile dans l'�conomie du d�veloppement. De nombreux travaux empiriques montrent que les associations d'industrie remplissent un r�le important dans les pays en d�veloppement o� elles compensent souvent un environnement des affaires inad�quat. Leur r�le en mati�re de d�veloppement et leur impact sur la croissance sont maintenant compromis en raison de comportements de rente. Nous �tudions deux industries technologiques, � savoir les services logiciels et les biotechnologies, qui ont toutes les deux cr�� des associations d'industrie afin d'influer sur les politiques gouvernementales et afin d'appuyer la croissance de leurs membres, en accordant de l'attention � leur motivations d'implantation, en pr�cisant les politiques qu'elles cherchent � influencer et les raisons de leurs succ�s en tant qu'organisation.
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