In-depth: The rise of the "new" donors
Building new relationships
Overview
DAKAR, 19 October 2011 (IRIN) - “It’s taken the world a while to notice they exist – and now we’re obsessed with them,” is how Karin Christiansen, head of Publish What You Fund, characterizes the west’s relationship with what people call “new”, “emerging” or “non-traditional” donors.
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Piecing together the Chinese aid jigsaw
No one would claim that it is easy to nail down the exact details of the Chinese aid budget, but does Chinese aid deserve the kind of adjectives often applied to it? Is it really “veiled and opaque”? “Wrapped in mystery”?
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Who’s who among the new donors
As the global economy begins to be reshaped by the new emerging economies, so too is the aid industry. IRIN looks at the rise of the BRICSS (the extra ‘S’ is for South Korea) as the new donors.
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