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SUMMARY:Does Brazil Need and International Development Agency? - Felipe Kr
 ause-Dornelles\, PhD student\, POLIS
DTSTART:20161207T130000Z
DTEND:20161207T140000Z
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CONTACT:Anna Bilous
DESCRIPTION:Brazil has received much attention in recent years as an impor
 tant new player in the international development scene. This has been a re
 sult of two central factors: 1) the massive increase in Brazilian official
  expenditures in the field of international development cooperation\, and 
 2) the expansion of the geographical scope of Brazil’s international dev
 elopment activity. Internationally\, this phenomenon has generated new deb
 ates\, among other areas\, on the meanings of soft power\, the role of ris
 ing powers in global politics\, and on problematic new “development enco
 unters” in Asia\, Africa and Latin America.\n\nInternally\, however\, th
 e debate – among policy-makers\, civil society and academics – on what
  Brazil’s role in international development might look like has been rat
 her feeble and superficial. In my paper\, I argue that the lack of a robus
 t domestic conversation on the matter is at the root of a number of practi
 cal problems with Brazil’s international development activities. More im
 portantly\, there is no clear consensus on whether the country should be i
 nvested in international development at all.\n\nMy paper is therefore inte
 nded to be an exploratory analysis of what the parameters of a national de
 bate about Brazil’s role in international development might look like. I
  explore the recent history of Brazilian development activities\, includin
 g some failures and successes\, and the current prevailing rationale. I th
 en propose three lines of enquiry\, with a view to answering the question\
 , “Does Brazil need an international development agency?”: 1) geopolit
 ical arguments\, 2) economic arguments\, and 3) global development argumen
 ts.
LOCATION:Centre of Development Studies' Meeting Room
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