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IDS Policy Briefing 70

Learning from India’s Development Cooperation

Published on 1 July 2014

In recent years, India has substantially increased the levels of its development cooperation. It has streamlined its development cooperation activities and put the principles of South-South Cooperation, including respect for national sovereignty, national ownership and independence, non-conditionality and mutual benefit, into action.

India now needs to strengthen and harmonise its institutional mechanisms for development cooperation through clear policy statements. In addition to national foreign policy and economic interests, accountability – to both Indian citizens and recipient countries – should become a cornerstone for planning future development cooperation. Greater engagement with Indian civil society and the Indian media will be critical to this endeavour.

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Chaturvedi, S.; Chenoy, A.; Chopra, D.; Joshi, A. and Lagdhiyan, K.H. (2014) 'Learning from India's Development Cooperation', IDS Policy Briefing 70, Brighton: IDS

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Deepta Chopra

Professorial Research Fellow

Anuradha Joshi

Director of Research

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Chaturvedi, S., Chenoy, A., Chopra, D., Joshi, A. and Lagdhiyan, K.H.
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IDS Policy Briefing, issue 70
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English

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