Short Abstract

In the face aid cuts, this panel seeks to revive and shape the debate on aid and development. We will examine the role of the OECD, the revival of domestic development policies, the claims for distributive justice and the future actors and semantics of development aid.

Description

Many traditional donors, including the UK, have cut back on their aid commitments; the Millennium Development Goals’ ambition for major donors to contribute 0.7 per cent of their budget as aid seems like a relic from a distant past. This changing landscape of aid begets a set of questions that this panel seeks to address:

• Would the retreat of traditional donors lead to a democratisation/decolonisation of the OECD-DAC, where the recipients would shape the future agenda of development through their own domestic political and economic redistribution policies?

• Would the OECD-DAC address the questions around the lack of accountability and shifting goalposts on the part of donors?

• What are the direct consequences of aid cuts on the ground and how are recipient countries dealing with them?

• How would recipient and non-recipient countries address their claims of distributive justice: through more affirmative calls for repatriation of cultural artefacts; compensation claims for past injustice?

• What would the aid cuts do to the existence of multilateral development organisations?

• Are private and non-governmental organisations the future of north-south development dialogue?

• What would be the impact on South-South Cooperation? Would actors like China and Saudi Arabia gain further prominence or are they likely to tread on the footsteps of the traditional donors?

In the face of aid cuts, the panel seeks to revive the debate on development and aid and analyse its effects on policy and academia.

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