Recent Submissions

  • China and International Development: Knowledge, Governance, and Practice 

    Li, Xiaoyun; Gu, Jing; Zhang, Chuanhong (Institute of Development Studies, 2021-11-29)
    China’s global engagement with the developing world is changing rapidly in an era where ‘traditional’ aid discourses and the practices of new ‘emerging powers’ in development cooperation are evolving. As the largest ...
  • Notes on Contributors – China and International Development: Knowledge, Governance, and Practice 

    Li, Xiaoyun; Gu, Jing; Zhang, Chuanhong (Institute of Development Studies, 2021-11-29)
    China’s global engagement with the developing world is changing rapidly in an era where ‘traditional’ aid discourses and the practices of new ‘emerging powers’ in development cooperation are evolving. As the largest ...
  • Whose Knowledge? Whose Influence? Changing Dynamics of China’s Development Cooperation Policy and Practice 

    Gu, Jing; Li, Xiaoyun; Zhang, Chuanhong (Institute of Development Studies, 2021-11-29)
    This article aims to investigate the recent evolution of China’s development policy and practice. More precisely, how do China’s policymakers and practitioners understand and debate China’s role in international development, ...
  • Mutual Learning in Development Cooperation: China and the West 

    Yu, Jiantuo; Due, Evan (Institute of Development Studies, 2021-11-29)
    This article looks at some of the characteristics of China’s foreign aid system and its development over the years. It discusses China’s foreign aid based on its own development experiences and its view of South–South ...
  • The New Asian Development Finance 

    Vazquez, Karin Costa; Zheng, Yu (Institute of Development Studies, 2021-11-29)
    The recent challenges posed for multilateralism and the emergence of a sustainable development regime have pushed countries to engage in more flexible, issue-based development finance initiatives and institutions. These ...
  • Exploring China’s Impacts on Development Thinking and Policies 

    Xu, Jiajun; Carey, Richard (Institute of Development Studies, 2021-11-29)
    In this article, we explore the impacts, actual and potential, of China’s development experiences upon development thinking and policies elsewhere. New Structural Economics, a theoretical innovation by Professor Justin ...
  • China’s NGO Partnerships in a New Era of Development Cooperation 

    Mulakala, Anthea; Bush, Robin; Ji, Hongbo (Institute of Development Studies, 2021-11-29)
    China’s 2021 White Paper, China’s International Development Cooperation in the New Era, offers a new vision for a more people-centred approach to its development cooperation. While the White Paper extensively discusses ...
  • Triangular Cooperation: Different Approaches, Same Modality 

    Prantz, Sebastian; Zhang, Xiaomin (Institute of Development Studies, 2021-11-29)
    Triangular cooperation aims to utilise the comparative advantages of a pivotal partner (usually an emerging country) and a facilitating partner (usually a traditional donor) to generate development impacts with and for the ...
  • Glossary – China and International Development: Knowledge, Governance, and Practice 

    Li, Xiaoyun; Gu, Jing; Zhang, Chuanhong (Institute of Development Studies, 2021-11-29)
    China’s global engagement with the developing world is changing rapidly in an era where ‘traditional’ aid discourses and the practices of new ‘emerging powers’ in development cooperation are evolving. As the largest ...
  • Ownership and Effectiveness of China’s Aid Projects in Africa 

    Zhang, Chuanhong; Li, Xiaoyun; Alemu, Dawit (Institute of Development Studies, 2021-11-29)
    The notion of ‘ownership’ has occupied a central place in measuring the effectiveness of North–South cooperation. How is it represented in South–South cooperation (SSC) and how does it affect the effectiveness of SSC? There ...
  • Selective Learning: China, the CGIAR, and Global Agricultural Science in Flux 

    Xu, Xiuli; Cabral, Lídia; Cao, Yingdan (Institute of Development Studies, 2021-11-29)
    This article analyses the interaction between China and the CGIAR (formerly the Consultative Group on International Agricultural Research) since the 1970s, exploring the formation of China’s modern agricultural science ...
  • Chinese Foundations and the Challenge of ‘Going International’ 

    Tan, Lindan; Huyse, Huib (Institute of Development Studies, 2021-11-29)
    China’s international cooperation strategies are gradually changing due to evolving views about the limits of its internationalisation approach, which has traditionally mainly focused on building governmental and business ...