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Accepted Paper:
Brazil, China, India and South Africa´s development cooperation approaches in health: a critical analysis of Southern expertise as transnational policy transfer sites.
Manaíra Assunção
(Hamburg Universität)
Paper short abstract:
The paper investigates how Southern expertise through South-South cooperation projects in health consolidates itself as transnational policy-making and transfer site. Brazil, China, India and South Africa's expertise is based on symbolic engagements with Northern and Southern development actors.
Paper long abstract:
South-South cooperation (SSC) projects managed between two developing countries have been high on the agenda of the Global South, particularly of emerging economies such as Brazil, China, India and South Africa. In the health field, these initiatives have enabled sharing these countries´ innovative domestic health programmes which provide powerful models to improve health policies and systems in general. Those health experts and their knowledge circuits allowed for new transnational policy sites, in which health policies are elaborated and transferred to other contexts. Instead of analysing the country's individual motivations and foreign policy objectives behind these initiatives, the paper aims to map the health experts, their institutional backgrounds and the SSC projects in health which have contributed to translating national experiences and opening socio-political spaces in which health and development professionals interact. These health experts designing and implementing projects in third countries do not belong to a development agency per se as the Northern development expert. The credibility emanating from the Southern expertise permitted these domestic health expert communities to play at the global level and influence drivers and determinants in both fields, health and development. This credibility follows different symbolic engagements between proximity and distance with actors in both fields: on the one hand, pushing for common policy solutions elaborated by the South for the South, on the other hand claiming alternative models and confronting the verticalized donor-recipient structure. The paper will critically examine how the Southern expertise has established itself as transnational site for policy-making and transfer.
South-South cooperation and the post-2015 development agenda: divergence or convergence between new players and traditional actors? [Rising Powers Study Group]
Session 1