How Do Non-DAC Actors Cooperate on Development?

Background: A brief history of non-DAC cooperation This section provides a brief historical overview of cooperation provided by non-DAC development actors, with a particular focus on the emergence and development of South–South Cooperation (SSC)—a key cooperation modality for non-DAC providers based on the common principle of mutual benefit and often understood as an alternative to the vertical re. [...] Gills, “South–South Cooperation and the Rise of the Global South;” Esteves and Assunção, “South–South Cooperation and the International Development Battlefield;” Engel, “South–South Cooperation in Southeast Asia.” 17 Gray and Gills, “South–South Cooperation and the Rise of the Global South,” 558. [...] Phase 2: Decline and stagnation (1980s–1990s) The 1980s saw a marked shift in the international energy for cooperation—and SSC—that had dominated the prior decades, with enthusiasm for cooperation declining over the period.23 Driven in part by the 1980s debt crisis and the subsequent rise of neoliberalism, the period saw a decline in the “revisionist impetus” that had driven the rise of SSC as an. [...] More broadly, substantive political shifts in the global landscape—including the end of the Cold War—led to a further decline in cooperation from non-DAC countries, particularly from Eastern European providers, with DAC providers allocating a larger share of total reported cooperation flows by the end of the decade.30 24 Esteves and Assunção, “South–South Cooperation and the International Developm. [...] Second, we examined the “Development Profiles” of the OECD’s 2022 Development Cooperation Report (DCR) for the 28 non-DAC providers for which data is available.44 The development profiles include data on the country’s development policy, institutional arrangement, and estimates of cooperation flows reported to the DAC.