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This paper explores the relations between the Development Assistance Committee (DAC) and China from a historical perspective. To do this it addresses the genesis and content of DAC's "altruistic paradigm" and China's "realist paradigm", highlighting their differences. It also analyses DAC's efforts and failure to co-opt China into the effective aid agenda: while China refuses to become a donor - citing its Southern identity - the DAC is resistant to recognising China as a co-operator with different responsibilities. The paper goes on to illustrate how, in order to survive "unfair competition", the DAC incorporates elements from China and the South into its narrative and cooperation practices. Lastly, China's move towards a more assertive foreign policy is explored along with the dynamic of relations between the DAC and China - between competition and convergence - in an uncertain international context. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

South-South cooperation between Brazil, Chile and Venezuela and developing country partners in Africa, Asia and the Middle East showed great dynamism from 2000 to 2010. This paper questions the specificity of the activities carried out by these three countries. Taking the studies of sociologist Marcel Mauss on donation as a starting point, it observes that these actors see their cooperative action as self-interested, which should come as no surprise from an anthropological perspective. So, although South- South cooperation is symbolised by three ideals (horizontality, reciprocity and equality), the three countries differentiate the content of projects according to the recipient country. Though nuances exist, generally reciprocity is respected only to a degree with emerging partners and not at all with other developing countries. Such practices contradict the original conception of South-South cooperation. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Trilateral South-South Cooperation (TSSC) for development has generated great debate over whether these alliances constitute a new paradigm for development or merely disguise a new form of imperialism. Beyond categorisations, this paper presents a more nuanced image and examines the focus of TSSC solidarity, specifically, the intrinsically political nature of development and the unequal power relations at its heart. Starting with the TSSC memorandum of understanding (MoU) between Brazil, Mozambique and the World Bank, the narratives are analysed of agricultural development and the social imaginaries that support it in order to better understand the patterns and motivations of solidarity. By showing the colonial, capitalist and patriarchal rationale that persists in the conception of solidarity used in the current development framework, this paper proposes the decolonisation of this concept. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Beyond its references to the founding principle of Third Worldism, South-South cooperation - like all other forms of cooperation - is characterised by the relations between powers. With this in mind, over the past 15 years Africa has developed a strategy that underscores the capacities of the leading African states for action and influence in the effective realisation of common objectives in the continent's relations with its foreign partners. The aim of this contribution is, therefore, to study how this "strategy of the mutualisation of powers" is put into practice as an African response - at the legal and institutional level in particular, how it is implemented in terms of South-South cooperation in the era of the rise of Asia, and its challenges and prospects. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This article analyses Senegalese migration to Argentina, understood here as "South-South migration" because the countries involved, Senegal and Argentina, are low and medium income countries, respectively, between whom historical, cultural and economic ties do not exist (in accordance with the International Organization of Migration's definition). In this context, this study focusses on the formation of a transnational Senegalese space as a fabric that unites the community in various countries through which flows of money, goods and cultural and religious products circulate. It also gives attention to the networks, both family and religious, that coordinate the community, as well as the role played by information and communication technologies in the construction of this transnational framework. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This paper assesses the features of the emerging donors in Africa and the challenges they face. The case study explores how Brazil positioned itself as a development partner in Africa by focusing on Ghana, a country often described as a "donor darling". Based on qualitative research on the bilateral relationship since the turn of century, the study describes a range of difficulties Brazil encounters in the competition with other aid providers. Faced with the financial advantages of both China and Western donors, Brazil established its cooperation within the niche of agricultural programmes. However, the normative and technical stance of this approach was unable to bridge divergent expectations and Brazil ultimately refocused its Africa engagement to its competitive advantage in Portuguese-speaking Africa. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]