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Historically, India’s assistance to fellow developing countries began in 1949 with scholarships and humanitarian assistance in cases of famine. The Colombo Plan was the main channel for scholarships although India’s own Indian Technical and Economic Cooperation (ITEC) program started in 1964 for training and transfer of expertise. Nepal and Bhutan were the earliest recipients of Indian assistance and from 1959 India has been giving program-based assistance as annual grants to these countries, worked into their and India’s five-year plans.
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See Chaturvedi (2012a, pp. 171–177) for a historical account until the 2000s.
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Source: https://www.dea.gov.in/divisionbranch/ideas, accessed on 15 December 2015.
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Source: http://newsletters.cii.in/Newsletters/mailer/LAC_Newsletter/february/Opportunities/locbooklet.pdf, accessed on 15 December 2015.
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All facts and figures in the country accounts in this section are from Indian Ministry of External Affairs, Annual Reports, various years and anonymous conversations with nine senior Indian diplomats with experience of the various countries and regions covered, including two former heads of the DPA, and a former chairman and managing director of the Exim Bank of India.
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Sridharan, E. (2020). India as an Emerging Donor: Political and Economic Determinants. In: Jing, Y., Mendez, A., Zheng, Y. (eds) New Development Assistance. Governing China in the 21st Century. Palgrave Macmillan, Singapore. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-13-7232-2_9
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