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International development cooperation is undergoing a revolution. The authors question how far bilateral and multilateral aid agencies succeed in mainstreaming global issues in their operations and assess how emerging and traditional donors address competing objectives, often with diverging rationales. Cases include Brazil, China and South Africa.

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PART 1: DOSSIER: AID, EMERGING ECONOMIES AND GLOBAL POLICIES Reframing Aid in a World Where the Poor Live in Emerging Countries; A.Sumner & G.Carbonnier Implementing Global Public Policies: Are the Aid Agencies Walking the Talk?; M.Mordasini The United Nations and Global Public Goods: Historical Contributions and Future Challenges; B.Jenks Policy Coherence for Development and the Political Economy of Aid; M.Carbone The Transformation of Development International Non-Governmental Organisations; T.Davies The New Realities of Global Health: Dynamics and Obstacles; M.Buissonniere China´s Foreign Aid and its Role in the International Aid Architecture; M.Huang Emerging ´Donor´, Geopolitical Actor: South Africa in the Global Terrain; E.Sidiropoulos Brazil´s Generous Diplomacy: Friendly Dragon or Paper Tiger?; R.Muggah & E.Passarelli Hamann PART 2: REVIEW: MAJOR DEVELOPMENT POLICY TRENDS The Challenges Facing the Multilateral Trading System in Addresssing Global Public Policy Objectives; C.Bellmann, J.Hepburn, M. Wilke Finance and Economic Development; U.Panizza Beyond Aid: Policy Coherence and Europe´s Development Policy; M.Carbone INFOGRAPHIC SECTION (in colour) Trends in Development Aid Aid, Emerging Economies and Global Policies

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CHRISTOPHE BELLMANN Programmes Director at the International Centre for Trade and Sustainable Development (ICTSD), Geneva, Switzerland THORSTEN BENNER Associate Director and co-founder of the Global Public Policy Institute (GPPi), Berlin, Germany MARINE BUISSONNIÔRE Director of the Public Health Program at the Open Society Foundations, New York, USA MAURIZIO CARBONE Senior Lecturer in the Department of Politics, University of Glasgow, Scotland THOMAS RICHARD DAVIES Lecturer in International Politics, City University, London, UK MEIBO HUANG Professor of Economics and Director of the China Institute for International Development, Xiamen University, Fujian, China BRUCE JENKS Senior Non-Resident Fellow, Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University, Lecturer at the Graduate Institute of International and Development Studies, Geneva, Switzerland and at the Columbia University School of International and Public Affairs, New York, USA MICHEL MORDASINI Assistant Director General and Head of the Global Cooperation Domain, Swiss Agency for Development and Cooperation, Bern, Switzerland UGO PANIZZA Chief of the Debt and Finance Analysis Unit, UNCTAD and Lecturer in Econometrics and Development Politics, Graduate Institute of International and Development Studies, Geneva, Switzerland PEIQIANG REN PhD Student, Department of International Economics and Trade, Xiamen University, Fujian, China ELIZABETH SIDIROPOULOS National Director of the South African Institute of International Affairs (SAIIA), Johannesburg, South Africa ANDY SUMNER Research Fellow in the Vulnerability and Poverty Reduction Team, Institute of Development Studies, Sussex, UK and a Visiting Fellow at the Centre for Global Development, Washington, DC, USA

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