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Title: | Non-DAC donors and the changing landscape of foreign aid: the (in)significance of India's development cooperation with Kenya |
Author: | Mawdsley, Emma |
Year: | 2010 |
Periodical: | Journal of Eastern African Studies (ISSN 1753-1063) |
Volume: | 4 |
Issue: | 2 |
Pages: | 361-379 |
Language: | English |
Geographic terms: | Africa Kenya India |
Subjects: | development cooperation South-South relations |
External link: | https://doi.org/10.1080/17531055.2010.487345 |
Abstract: | The last few years have witnessed a growing interest in so-called 'non-DAC donors' (NDDs), i.e. States providing aid and development assistance to low and middle-income countries but which are not members of the Development Assistance Committee (DAC), a forum for selected OECD members to discuss poverty reduction, aid and development. While this is understandable, there is some danger that the diversity of the NDDs is overlooked, and the debate becomes distorted by an overly China-oriented lens. The focus of this paper is India's development cooperation agendas and activities in Africa, and more specifically, Kenya. The paper argues that despite growing 'noise' about the wider phenomenon of the rise of the non-DAC donors within 'mainstream' foreign aid arenas, the DAC donors in Kenya are only concerned with China. The paper asks whether India's meagre development cooperation relations with Kenya rightly disqualify it from the attention of the DAC community, or whether the country level is also an appropriate scale for strategically oriented dialogue and possible cooperation, India's modest development contributions notwithstanding. Bibliogr., notes, ref., sum. [Journal abstract] |