Uneven convergence in India’s development cooperation: the case of concessional finance to Africa

Dye, Barnaby

doi:10.1080/01436597.2021.1997583

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“…of this cooperation was ad hoc, and it was as late as 2003 when a structured scheme to channel India's assistance was initiated. A key feature of the scheme was to subsidise the interest rate demanded by Indian banks to expand concessional finance available to African partners, a feature it shared with other Southern lenders such as Brazil, China and the UAE (Dye, 2021). Such bilateral relations were soon accompanied by multilateral forums such the India-Brazil-South Africa (IBSA) Fund.…”

Section: India's Engagement With the African Continentmentioning

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Southern Multilateralism: India's engagement with Africa and the emergence of a multiplex world order

Roy

2023

J of Intl Development

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This paper delineates the characteristics of an emerging Southern multilateralism to argue against pessimistic narratives of anarchy and disorder as well as optimistic narratives that celebrate the resilience of the Liberal International Order (LIO). It does this by staging a conversation between a top‐down International Relations literature that explores the contours of global order and a bottom‐up international development literature that investigates the changing role of the Global South in world politics. By highlighting the continuities and discontinuities of Southern multilateralism with it, the paper illustrates the ways in which Southern Multilateralism both challenges the LIO and supports it. The perspective of Southern Multilateralism suggests that countries in the Global South insist on sharing global responsibility with prevailing institutions of liberal multilateralism, neither seeking to overthrow it nor to be co‐opted within it. A subsidiary argument of the paper is that Southern Multilateralism is not homogenous: To that end, it attends to the richness of Southern Multilateralism by directing attention to variations within it. In line with the theme of the Special Issue, this paper focuses on two cases that involve India's presence on the African continent.

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Section: India's Engagement With the African Continentmentioning

confidence: 99%

Southern Multilateralism: India's engagement with Africa and the emergence of a multiplex world order

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2023

J of Intl Development

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“…Rather than its previous approach, which put African governments in the driver's seat as to investment decisions, the Indian government has assumed more control over such decisions due to the fallout from corruption scandals surrounding Indian companies' investments in African countries. Among other changes, the new regulations “removed African governments' role in contracting Indian companies, moving this process in‐house to the Indian Exim Bank” (Dye 2022a). These policy changes signaled a shift away from India's previous development cooperation approaches based on noninterference, recipient‐led demands, and the principle of sovereignty first (Dye 2022b).…”

Section: Emerging and Traditional Donors: Points Of Convergence And D...mentioning

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“…Among other changes, the new regulations "removed African governments' role in contracting Indian companies, moving this process in-house to the Indian Exim Bank" (Dye 2022a). These policy changes signaled a shift away from India's previous development cooperation approaches based on noninterference, recipient-led demands, and the principle of sovereignty first (Dye 2022b). Despite giving India a much greater say in setting the development agenda and moving away from recipient-led assistance, state-to-state relations continue to be central to the project approval process, thus maintaining a very different emphasis than USAID's localization approach.…”

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Emerging Donors' Engagements in Africa: China, India, and the Localizing Peacebuilding and Development Interventions

Paczyńska

2023

Negotiation Journal

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Today's development and peacebuilding donor landscape is much more complex than it was just a few decades ago. In addition to traditional donors, emerging donors have come to play much more prominent roles in development and peacebuilding assistance. This article explores these shifting dynamics of the donor landscape by analyzing China's and India's engagements with African states. In particular, it investigates whether these two emerging donors' development and peacebuilding interventions are framed around the localization of aid concerns that have animated traditional donors. The article shows that nationally led and nationally owned development and peacebuilding priorities are central to the provision of aid by these emerging donors. However, neither China nor India has explicitly joined the localization of aid debate. The term “localization” does not appear in the key documents produced by the government agencies that oversee these countries' development and peacebuilding interventions. Moreover, neither China nor India has signed onto the various international agreements that place localization at the forefront of traditional donor agendas. This article argues that the local is important to both China and India. However, for these two countries, localization is reflected in the emphasis on nationally led and nationally owned development and peacebuilding priority setting; and the promotion of state capacity and strength rather than as a way of working with civil society and nongovernmental organizations. These engagements with the local by China and India in the context of Africa have shifted over time as their footprints across the continent have expanded and their global aspirations have shifted.

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Africa's Global Infrastructures

2024

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The boom in South–South relations since the early 2000s has seen a flurry of investment in Africa from emerging markets across the Global South. While the extent to which these projects spur growth is debated, few studies have addressed their impact on both ground-level political and socio-economic practices in Africa, and transnational governance practices more broadly. Through the lens of infrastructure, this book investigates the ideas, techniques, and practices that have travelled to, and emerge from Africa because of Global South-led projects. How have they been adapted, transformed and contested by local actors? How do they shape the governance of business–society relations? And how do practices emerging from these South-South relations transform Western-dominated transnational governance? The book zooms in on the sites of large-scale Chinese-, Brazilian- and Indian-funded projects—dams, ports, roads and mines—across several African countries. These “frontier zones” bring together politicians and practitioners, campaign groups and communities from Africa and elsewhere, and offer unique insight into the multiple global practices at work in our contemporary world. Taking a bottom-up approach, Africa’s Global Infrastructures shows the significance and implications of these increasingly pluralistic socio-economic interactions, for the continent and beyond.

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Uneven convergence in India’s development cooperation: the case of concessional finance to Africa

Cited by 18 publications

References 24 publications

Southern Multilateralism: India's engagement with Africa and the emergence of a multiplex world order

Southern Multilateralism: India's engagement with Africa and the emergence of a multiplex world order

Emerging Donors' Engagements in Africa: China, India, and the Localizing Peacebuilding and Development Interventions

Africa's Global Infrastructures

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