Southern powers and global development : responsible but different / Laura Trajber Waisbich.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Waisbich, Laura Trajber, author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Economic development--Developing countries.

Economic development.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (243 pages)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Bristol, UK : Bristol University Press, 2025.

Summary:

Responsibility and accountability are key concepts in global development, and no less so in the case of south-south cooperation (SSC). This book illustrates how donorship responsibility and accountability are being debated, negotiated and operationalised in the context of rising powers' development cooperation.

Contents:

Front Cover

Southern Powers and Global Development: Responsible but Different

Copyright Page

Table of Contents

Acknowledgements

Introduction

Southern powers and differentiated roles and duties in global development

Fractured geopolitics and changing donorship politics in global development

Politicized consolidation and shifting development cooperation landscapes within Southern powers

South-​South cooperation on the move

Global Brazil, China and India as emblematic sites

Global but different

Book structure

Studying SSC-​land

1 More and Better South-​South Cooperation

The politics of differentiated responsibility and accountability in rising powers-​led development cooperation

Discursive battles and controversies

Travelling models, Southern agency, and arenas of conflict over responsibility and accountability

Politicization, socialization and differentiation

The domestic-​global nexus

2 The Paradox of Differentiated Responsibilities

Great powers, greater responsibilities

Responsible global development partners

Common but differentiated global development responsibilities

Unfinished negotiations over differentiation

3 The Accountability Problem in Aidland

Donor accountability: a soft but sticky issue in global development

Aid and its discontents

Accountability deficits

Aid reforms and the effectiveness-​accountability nexus

Accounting for aid, counting aid

Accountability infrastructure and its effects

4 The Accountability Problem in Southern-​Led Development Cooperation

Internal and external problematizations

Transparency deficits and heterodox practices

Othering rising powers, Othering China

Domestic South-​South cooperation accountability problems

Southern responses to accountability calls and the quest for differentiated integration

Resistance and reluctance

The other Southern partner

Experimentation and innovation

5 South-​South Cooperation Monitoring Infrastructures

The duty to measure

Telling the story in numbers: uneasiness, experimentation and measurement battles

Difference and plurality: measuring 'from the South'

Surveys, assessments and policy papers: experimenting with measuring at home

The Survey and Brazil's active non-​alignment

The White Paper and China's controlled and strategic convergence

The Assessment and India's persistent unease

Southern agency, faith in numbers and monitoring pains

6 South-​South Cooperation Monitoring Movements

Engaging and contesting Global Brazil, India and China

Studies, forums and campaigns

Monitoring Global Brazil

Monitoring Global China

Monitoring Global India

Differentiation traps and challenging citizen monitoring 'from the South'

Claiming transparency and participation 'from the South'

Re-​inventing theories of change and mobilization tactics

Notes:

The challenge to sustain mobilization

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Includes bibliographical references and index.

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ISBN:

9781529247954

1-5292-4795-0

OCLC:

1541771141