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- Convenors:
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Rory Horner
(University of Manchester)
Lidia Cabral (Institute of Development Studies)
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- Formats:
- Papers Roundtables
- Stream:
- Rethinking development
- Sessions:
- Monday 28 June, -
Time zone: Europe/London
Short Abstract:
These paper sessions and open roundtable focus on South-South relations, including but not limited to trade, policy cooperation, migration, finance, and technology transfer. How have South-South relations been impacted by, and shaped responses to, the multiple pressures unsettling development?
Long Abstract:
South-South relations are a major axis of contemporary development processes and outcomes. The prominence of such relations has surged across a number of domains, including food and agriculture, migration, trade, technology transfer, policy cooperation. Many hope that South-South relations can unsettle in positive ways the status quo, while others worry that the more negative aspects of South-North relations may be reproduced. Covid-19 has augmented the relevance of considering South-South relations as a key aspect of development. Flows of finance, food and people have been significantly impacted, while South-South supplies of medical goods are a key aspect of the immediate response. Longer-term, Covid-19 accentuates the need to consider the role of South-South relations in contributing to ‘building back better’ towards global sustainable development.
This panel welcomes abstract submissions for papers on any or multiple domains of South-South relations. Papers could engage with, but are not limited to, the following questions:
• How have South-South relations been impacted by, and shaped responses to, the multiple pressures unsettling development, including multipolarity, Covid-19, climate change, populism and racial violence?
• What is the potential for South-South relations to contribute to ‘build back better’?
Format: Paper sessions will primarily be synchronous, but would also be open to some asynchronous contributions e.g. where the presentation is played as a video, but the presenter participates in live Q&A. We will also convene an open format and synchronous roundtable discussion on this theme, which anyone registered for the conference can participate in without any prior submission or notification necessary.
Accepted papers:
Session 1 Monday 28 June, 2021, -Paper short abstract:
The paper analyses two different modes of Southern multilateralisms by comparing the New Development Bank (NDB) and the India Brazil South Africa (IBSA) Fund.
Paper long abstract:
A growing literature documents the emergence of a “new multilateralism” in the post-pandemic context (Telo, 2020; Kaul, 2020) and prior to it (IMF, 2018; Hampson and Heinbecker, 2011) to address challenges of inclusion and sustainability. Situated in the broader context of the changing global order, different strands of the literature debate the challenges offered by the “new multilateralism” to the Liberal International Order (Ikenberry, 2018), highlight the role of non-state “power brokers” (Subacci, 2014), and reflects on possibilities of South-South Cooperation (Mawdsley, 2013). While appreciating the emergence of a “new multilateralism”, scholars are only just beginning to document the variations within the new Southern-led multilateralism (Cooper, 2017; Wang, 2019). The proposed paper analyses two different modes of Southern multilateralisms by comparing the New Development Bank (NDB) and the India Brazil South Africa (IBSA) Fund. Staging a conversation between constructivist approaches in international relations (Wendt, 1999) with more recent formulations of power and hegemony (Acharya, 2017), the paper documents a slice of the diversity in Southern multilateralism and its implications on the liberal international order. A major contribution of the paper is to offer evidence of the variations within Southern multilateralisms. A subsidiary contribution is to reflect on the lessons that can be exchanged between the New Development Bank and the IBSA Fund and with other established multilateral bodies to promote inclusive sustainable development.
Paper short abstract:
This study uses new World Bank data to statistically compare the political and economic factors driving bilateral lending to the Global South from emerging BRICS donors to those of traditional Paris Club lenders, and explores whether the BRICS offer better or worse terms than traditional creditors.
Paper long abstract:
A paucity of data has thus far made systematic quantitative analysis of emerging bilateral donors such as China a major challenge. This study takes advantage of new World Bank data on the sovereign creditors of a panel of 120 low- and middle-income countries from 2000-2019 to first chart the growing importance of key emerging donors during the twenty-first century, focusing on the BRICS (Brazil, Russia, India, China and South Africa), before statistically analyzing the political, strategic, and economic factors that drive their lending and investigating whether they are different from the “traditional” (mostly) Western donors that comprise the Paris Club . Finally, using data on the average grant elements, interest rates, and grace periods of bilateral official loans to the same panel of borrowers, this study will analyze whether low- and middle-income countries which borrow proportionately more from the emerging bilateral donors tend to receive better or worse terms than those who stick to the conventional Paris Club lenders. Given the growing importance of countries such as the BRICS as bilateral creditors, a more systematic comparative understanding of their motives and behavior has substantial policy relevance, in particular in the wake of COVID-19 induced debt distress across much of the developing world.
Paper short abstract:
This paper draws on empirical evidence from Zambia to demonstrate the geopolitical and economic ambitions that underlie TDC projects. It discusses the implications of these findings on the changing geographies of global power and recommendations for enhancing sustainable development outcomes in TDC.
Paper long abstract:
Trilateral development cooperation development (TDC) has emerged as one of the key modalities for facilitating South-South-North partnerships, knowledge exchange and technology transfers. Most policy-oriented studies on TDC tend to concentrate on the technical aspects of its administration and the best approach to ensuring coordination. However, there are multiple layers of power, politics and interests driving the institutions and countries engaging in TDC, which have potential to constrain the development effectiveness of each project. This paper draws on empirical evidence from Zambia to demonstrate the geopolitical and economic ambitions that underlie TDC projects at the institutional, national and global scale. It discusses the implications of these findings on the changing geographies of global power in light of the Covid-19 pandemic, and makes recommendations for enhancing sustainable development outcomes in TDC projects.