GDI Lecture Series: The Southernisation of Development with Emma M...

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The ‘Southernisation’ of Development:
are the DAC donors moving South?
Emma Mawdsley
University of Cambridge

https://www.newstatesman.com/politics/
economy/2018/10/penny-mordaunt-
hints-cuts-foreign-aid-spending-reality-
very-diffe...

https://www.ft.com/content/40d7ee
e4-bdc1-11e8-94b2-17176fbf93f5
23 September 2018

Hart’s schematic of the IPE of d/Development


Bandung
Conference
Non-Aligned Movement
Demand for a New International Economic
Order (NIEO)
South-South Development Coo...


Bandung
Conference
Non-Aligned Movement
Demand for a New International Economic
Order (NIEO)
South-South Development Coo...

Argument
• Convergence, collaboration, competition, cooption all evident within
the international development landscape
• ...

Expectations of socialising the South
China is big, it is growing, and it will influence the world
in the years ahead. For...

Argument
• Convergence, collaboration, competition, cooption all evident within
the international development landscape
• ...

Problematising ‘Southernisation’
• Methodological nationalism?

Problematising ‘Southernisation’
• Methodological nationalism?
• Essentialising North/South
• Which ‘South’? Cuba or China...

Problematising ‘Southernisation’
• Methodological nationalism?
• Essentialising North/South
• Which ‘South’? Cuba or China...

2000-2015:
The Millennium
Development Goals

‘MDG era’
• 2000-2015 “represented an unprecedented period of international
agreement about what ‘development’ consists of...

Sakiko Fukuda-Parr and David Hulme (2011)
International Norm Dynamics and the "End of
Poverty": Understanding the Millenni...

The ‘Aid
Effectiveness
Agenda’,
launched 2005

Re-engineering UK foreign aid
1) An increasingly explicit assertion that aid must work in the ‘national
interest’

Re-engineering UK foreign aid
“Of course, smart aid isn’t just good for the countries we’re helping, it’s good for
Britain...

Re-engineering UK foreign aid
“We will be driven by the wish to promote Danish foreign and domestic policy
interests at on...

Discursive framings of development cooperation
Western donors Southern development cooperation
partners
Charity Opportunit...

Discursive framings of development cooperation
Western donors Southern development cooperation
partners
Charity Opportunit...

Re-engineering UK foreign aid
2) (Re-)centring (private sector-led) economic growth
“It is my intention to recast DFID as ...

Wealth creation moves to the centre
• DFID: New Private Sector Department (2011); new Director General for Economic
Develo...

Justine Greening MP announcing
the launch of a new partnership
between DFID and the London
Stock Exchange Group, 27 Januar...

“This is a win-win partnership. It
means the best run stock exchange
in the world, our stock exchange
right here in London...

Re-engineering UK foreign aid
3) Development diplomacy
• Maintaining DFID’s high standing but to a wider and different
aud...

Re-engineering UK foreign aid
4) Re-defining and re-routing ‘ODA’ (foreign aid)
http://devinit.org/post/aid-spending-by-de...

• ODA should be re-tuned to leverage and catalyse larger private sector flows
• New forms of finance, leveraged by ODA, wi...

“The launch earlier this month of the first rupee-denominated bond in
London is an example of the close and growing econom...

Carroll and Jarvis (2014:538) argue that:
… risk mitigation for capital (including financial capital) – that is the
escort...

Conclusions: UK
• Reinvention of international development, not redundancy
• UK seeking a leadership role, institutionally...

‘Southernisation’?
• Cautions:
• Legacies, institutional inertia, legal binds, cultures, structural positions (e.g.
DAC): ...

Modernisation theories:
• Techno-based optimism
• Central focus on economic growth
• Infrastructure
Dependency theories:
•...


Bandung
Conference
Non-Aligned Movement
Demand for a New International Economic
Order (NIEO)
South-South Development Coo...


Bandung
Conference
Non-Aligned Movement
Demand for a New International Economic
Order (NIEO)
South-South Development Coo...

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