Europe and the international development architecture'

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Europe and the international development
architecture.

• Andrew Rogerson, ODI
• SID conference, Europe and The South, The Hague
  27/9/04

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Scope

• Narrow view-aid, IFIs, institutions.
• What shapes international architecture?
• Europes schizoid take on development
• What would make EU punch its weight?

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Limitations

• Aid system, not coherence focus
• Focus on IFI not UN system
• Focus on EU institutions, not Europe

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What Shapes Global Aid System?

• Many suppliers, weak owners, weak users, no exit.
• 4 Forces
• Shifting palette of mandates, inc. poverty
• Extent of financial security.
• Creative tensions with NGOs
• Mix of high and low sovereignty recipients.

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.. for example..

• Migration and aid.
• EDF ring fenced, Budget fungible.
• Special facilities bid out to NGOs.
• Mediterranean, post-conflict.

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Europes schizoid tendency on aid

• Enormous collective weight
• Reluctance to pool sovereignty
• G8 configuration vs. EU.
• Control mentality inputs vs. outcomes
• The visibility trap

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How could EU punch its weight in international
ring?

• Long-term vision of European G8, GX
• No taxation without representation EU funding
  for global priorityseat at table.
• Dont let visibility make us invisible!
• Experiment with EU coordination
• Trade off patronage on IMF, WB leadership
• Use small country voices.