Roundtable 1: The OECD/DAC and Emerging Donors
Friday 18/7/2008, 11:00-12:30 | HOGC 03.101
In recent years, the OECD's Development Assistance Committee (DAC) has developed a series of recommendations for its members states' development policy. These recommendations detail how donors are supposed to interact with partner governments, in particular where the interests of donors and recipients diverge. As a result, development policies are usually subject to explicit and implicit political conditionalities. However, this approach is now being challenged by the emergence of non-OECD donor countries, most importantly China, but also India, Brazil or South Africa who impose a different set of conditionalities upon their aid (or none at all). This roundtable will bring together development officials from emerging donor nations and OECD/DAC countries to facilitate a discussion on the present and the future of development aid in a rapidly changing international system.