The “Beijing Consensus” (BC) as a concept has been utilised to distinguish China's economic development experience from the “Washington Consensus” (WC), the policy toolkit offered to developing countries by Washington-based international organisations. This paper posits that recent...

Having already been growing in importance for a number of years, geopolitics as it relates to the Global South has become tremendously more relevant following Russia’s aggression in Ukraine in 2022. Rivalries with China are set to become even more influential in future, determining...

Development as self-interest -- Targeted development in perspective -- Maximizing utility vis- a-vis developing countries -- Re-orienting foreign aid -- Preferential trade agreements as development policy -- Climate finance for developing countries