Brazil and the Shifting Consensus on Development Co‐operation: Salutary Diversions from the ‘Aid‐effectiveness’ Trail?

Cabral, Lídia; Russo, Giuliano; Weinstock, Julia

doi:10.1111/dpr.12050

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“…Brazil provides very few loans and instead the Brazilian Cooperation Agency emphasizes in-kind technical assistance and subsidies for its state-and privately owned multinational enterprises in Africa (Cabral et al 2014). South Africa, particularly through the South African Development Partnership Agency, has leveraged its position to promote national interests in other Africa countries (Vickers 2012).…”

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China's provincial diplomacy to Africa: applications to health cooperation

Shen

Fan

2014

Contemporary Politics

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There is a prevailing view of China as a unitary actor in its relationships with African countries. This view is incomplete: on the contrary, China is a collection of provinces, autonomous regions and municipalities with myriad strategic ties to African countries, with decentralization shaping the current form of Chinese government and its level of efficiency. In this paper, factors have been explored for why Chinese provinces have played a role in foreign cooperation in health of African countries, in addition to trade and foreign direct investment. Incentives and disincentives for Chinese provinces to engage internationally in foreign cooperation and health assistance have been identified. The concept of paradiplomacy for health has been presented and this typology has been applied to the example of Chinese medical teams. Finally, we draw linkages between China and other members of Brazil, Russia, India, China, and South Africa.

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China's provincial diplomacy to Africa: applications to health cooperation

Shen

Fan

2014

Contemporary Politics

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“…On a more descriptive level, many instances of growing multipolarity are visible in global health, ranging from the emergence of strong pharmaceutical and other global health industries in middle income countries (Ross, ) to examples of South‐South cooperation in the forms of strategic investments or development assistance for health (DAH) (Cabral et al., ; Kickbusch, ). But what exactly is the significance of these trends?…”

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Gridlock, Innovation and Resilience in Global Health Governance

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Kickbusch

McNally³

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Global Policy

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Global health governance is in many ways proving more innovative and resilient than other sectors in global governance. In order to understand the mechanisms that have made these developments possible, this article draws on the concept of gridlock, as well as on the additional theoretical strands of metagovernance and adaptive governance, to conceptualize how global health governance has been able to adapt despite increasingly difficult conditions in the multilateral order. The remarkable degree of innovation that characterizes global health governance is the result of two interrelated conditions. First, developments that are normally associated with gridlock in multilateral cooperation, such as institutional fragmentation and growing multipolarity, have transformed, rather than gridlocked, global health governance. Second, global health actors have often been able to harness the opportunities offered by three important pathways of change, namely: (1) a significant degree of organizational learning and active feedback loops between epistemic and practice communities; (2) a highly polycentric system of governance; and (3) the increased role of political leadership as a catalyst for governance innovation. These trends are discussed in the context of three case studies of significant political, social and health relevance, namely HIV/AIDS, the 2014 Ebola outbreak and antimicrobial resistance.

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“…The soft power approach highlights the strategic value and political nature of all global engagements, even those driven by a selfless and humanitarian impetus 42 . On the other hand, soft power constitutes yet another case of universalizing conceptual and methodological tools that are designed in terms of Western foreign policy experiences 43 : the concept of soft power fails to capture the distinctive character of much South-South cooperation, even as certain SSC actors have themselves taken up the concept of soft power 44,45 .…”

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South-South cooperation in health: bringing in theory, politics, history, and social justice

2017

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Since the mid-2000s, the practice of South-South cooperation in health (SSC) has attracted growing attention among policymakers, health and foreign affairs ministries, global health agencies, and scholars from a range of fields. But the South-South label elucidates little about the actual content of the cooperation and conflates the “where” with the “who, what, how, and why”. While there have been some attempts to theorize global health diplomacy and South-South cooperation generally, these efforts do not sufficiently distinguish among the different kinds of practices and political values that fall under the South-South rubric, ranging from economic and geopolitical interests to social justice forms of solidarity. In the spirit of deepening theoretical, historical, and social justice analyses of SSC, this article: (1) critically revisits international relations theories that seek to explain SSC, exploring Marxian and other heterodox theories ignored in the mainstream literature; (2) traces the historical provenance of a variety of forms of SSC; and (3) introduces the concept of social justice-oriented South-South.

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Brazil and the Shifting Consensus on Development Co‐operation: Salutary Diversions from the ‘Aid‐effectiveness’ Trail?

Cited by 25 publications

References 18 publications

China's provincial diplomacy to Africa: applications to health cooperation

China's provincial diplomacy to Africa: applications to health cooperation

Gridlock, Innovation and Resilience in Global Health Governance

South-South cooperation in health: bringing in theory, politics, history, and social justice

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