In recent years, there has been an explosion of categories and labels to account for the expansion of forms of cooperation beyond the membership of the Development Assistance Committee. Such hype has led to the construction of the so-called southern model as the archetype of development cooperation coming from non-Development Assistance Committee countries that are somehow committed to the principles of the South-South cooperation. The present article challenges the idea of a southern model by providing an analysis of drivers, tools, and modality of development assistance.
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