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The End of “Development Assistance” and the BRICS

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International Development Assistance and the BRICS

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The days of the concept of “development assistance” in the glossary of global law and policymaking may finally be numbered. An important step in this regard was taken by the World Bank’s announcement abolishing the terminological separation of the world into so-called developed and “developing countries” in the 2016 edition of the World Development Indicators. This change in language may directly or indirectly be attributed to the emergence of the BRICS countries as a “cooperation and dialogue forum”. Considering the philosophical and practical underpinnings of non-binary modes of thinking, this chapter takes this opportunity to show why and how the BRICS can make a difference in the debate about the establishment of a more equitable global legal order in the future.

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Acknowledgements

The author would like to thank the organizers of the International Symposium on Development and Governance in the BRICS held at Fudan University in Shanghai (CHINA) in 2017 for providing the impetus for the writing of this article. The author gratefully acknowledges the financial support provided by the University of Macau [MYRG2015-00222-FLL and MYRG2016-00116-FLL] underlying the research that went into the writing of this article.

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Neuwirth, R.J. (2020). The End of “Development Assistance” and the BRICS. In: Puppim de Oliveira, J.A., Jing, Y. (eds) International Development Assistance and the BRICS. Governing China in the 21st Century. Palgrave Macmillan, Singapore. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-32-9644-2_2

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