While Mahatma Gandhi is known primarily as a freedom-fighter he had also very definite ideas on the appropriate ways of his country's economic and social development which anticipated major elements of the present development strategies of India as well as a number of other developing countries....

The Millennium Development Goals (MDG) was originated from the Millennium Declaration adopted by the General Assembly of the United Nations in September 2000. The MDGs helped in bringing out a much needed focus and pressure on basic development issues, which in turn led the governments at...

South Asia is a region with the largest demand for development cooperation in the world, and its importance as a development cooperation partner for Korea and other aid donors is increasing. Accordingly, South Asia's proportion in the worldwide ODA (Official Development Assistance) is on the...

This essay is an entry in the forthcoming Encyclopedia of International Economic Law from Edward Elgar Publishing, edited by Krista Nadakavukaren Schefer and Thomas Cottier and due to be published in 2016. Development is about aspiration — our longing for a better life as individuals and as a...

This policy brief discusses the new geopolitical and geo-economic context and its significance for the Global South and the development policies of Western actors. The systemic confrontation between China and the USA, the Russian invasion of Ukraine, but also the seizure of power through a...