Towards a new aid paradigm: South Africa as African development partner

Vickers, Brendan

doi:10.1080/09557571.2012.744638

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“…Since 1994, South African cooperation abroad has expanded, especially in Africa. South African firms, especially in telecommunications and retail, have driven economic cooperation, while the state's role has concentrated in peacekeeping, electoral reform and post-conflict reconstruction (Vickers 2012). Despite relying on a more restricted budget than fellow BRICS states, the South African government has worked to formalise and coordinate the country's cooperation through the creation of the South African International Development Agency (SAIDA), later renamed the South African Development Partnership Agency (SAPDA).…”

Section: The Brics Development Bank Projectmentioning

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China and the BRICS Development Bank: Legitimacy and Multilateralism in South-South Cooperation

Abdenur

2014

IDS Bulletin

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In 2013 the BRICS (Brazil, Russia, India, China and South Africa) grouping agreed to undertake what will, when implemented, become its most concrete project yet: the BRICS Development Bank (BDB). From the perspective of the Chinese government, which already leads a vast and far-reaching cooperation programme, the bank will not represent a significant addition to its cooperation portfolio. What, then, motivates China's participation in the initiative, and what can it bring to the table? This article analyses China's interests in the BDB in the light of its past experiences with development, at home and abroad. I argue that China's interests in backing the bank project are primarily political. In addition to offering a concrete opportunity to legitimise China's multilateralism strategy -burnishing China's image as a responsible yet pro-reform global player -the bank project also allows China to influence international development norms. At the same time, the project also poses challenges for China, especially in terms of promoting poverty alleviation without resorting to trickle-down assumptions about an infrastructure-focused approach to development.

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Section: The Brics Development Bank Projectmentioning

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China and the BRICS Development Bank: Legitimacy and Multilateralism in South-South Cooperation

Abdenur

2014

IDS Bulletin

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“…South Africa's proposal for a BRICS-NEPAD Infrastructure Development Fund, and ultimately a fully operational BRICS-led Development Bank, are possible vehicles to harness BRICS funding for infrastructure development in Africa. 36 …”

Section: Africa's Potential Market Powermentioning

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Africa and the rising powers: bargaining for the ‘marginalized many’

Vickers¹

2013

International Affairs

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With abundant resources and growing markets, the African continent is once again at the centre of a new ‘great game of courtship’ between the established and rising powers. However, compared with previous decades, African countries are no longer passive players in international relations. This article explores Africa's recent negotiating behaviour in relation to a selected set of actors that animate the current shifting global economic order: rising powers, established powers and international organizations. Despite potential sources of bargaining leverage, most African countries (with some notable exceptions) are still reactive to the bilateral overtures of Brazil, China and India and unable to set the terms of engagement. Nonetheless, the rise of these new powers provides alternative negotiating partners (and potentially more developmental outcomes) to the established powers. By comparison, at the multilateral level the African Group has been far more active and assertive in contesting global governance in the pursuit of greater distributive justice, particularly in the climate, trade and security regimes. This has taken place largely through the adroit use of distributive bargaining and tactics, supplemented by normative‐based strategies highlighting Africa's underdevelopment. The central argument of the article is that African countries require judicious negotiating strategies, improved deliberative capacities and coalitions with local/continental/global civil society and business networks in order to ameliorate their weaker bargaining power and reshape the terms of their engagement with their international partners, particularly the rising powers.

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“…During the period 1994 to 2014 unemployment (narrowly defined) increased from 20% to 26% (a broad definition of unemployment indicates a 36% unemployment rate), 58 with the proportion of unemployed youth (15)(16)(17)(18)(19)(20)(21)(22)(23)(24)(25)(26)(27)(28)(29)(30)(31)(32)(33)(34) years in age) at almost 50%. 59 The percentage of black Africans living in poverty increased by 10% between 1994 and 2014, 60 while the wage share of gross domestic product decreased from 56% in 1994 to 50,6% by 2010.…”

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“…24 Compared to most for exerting influence in global politics. 25 Add to this its track record as a donor 26 on the continent and its extensive bilateral reach as far as diplomatic ties are concerned 27 and one could make an argument that it complies loosely with Hurrell's criteria.…”

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South Africa as an emerging power: from label to ‘status consistency’?

Schoeman

2015

South African Journal of International Affairs

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South Africa proudly wears the label 'emerging power', with its membership of the BRICS and G20 probably the most visible signs of this conferred status. This paper explores the concept of the emerging powers within the context of current global power shifts and locates South Africa within this group. It discusses the criteria for and characteristics of emerging powers, and then turns to some of the constraints and challenges faced by these states. Specific attention is paid to the 'how' of these states' recognition and inclusion in global institutions and to the impact of domestic conditions and regional politics on their positions, focusing particularly on South Africa. It concludes that these factors will continue to challenge South Africa's ability to rise above the semblance of importance conferred by its inclusion in the category of emerging powers to a position in which it exercises this status to its own advantage, including its idealistic objectives of promoting greater global equality and recognition for Africa and the global South. Although other emerging powers face similar challenges, South Africa's domestic constraints and related lack of regional and global reach, politically and economically, threatens its 'status consistency' as an emerging power

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Towards a new aid paradigm: South Africa as African development partner

Cited by 40 publications

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China and the BRICS Development Bank: Legitimacy and Multilateralism in South-South Cooperation

China and the BRICS Development Bank: Legitimacy and Multilateralism in South-South Cooperation

Africa and the rising powers: bargaining for the ‘marginalized many’

South Africa as an emerging power: from label to ‘status consistency’?

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