Elizabeth Sidiropoulos is the national director of the South African Institute of International Affairs (SAIIA) and the editor-in-chief of the South African Journal of International Affairs.Thomas Fues, trained as an economist, has been with the German Development Institute (DIE) as senior fellow since 2004. Since 2009 he has headed the training department at DIE and he has worked for the German parliament, the Institute of Peace and Development (University Duisburg-Essen), the government of North Rhine Westphalia and the German Advisory Council on Global Change, as well as acting as a freelance consultant.Dr Sachin Chaturvedi is a senior fellow at the Research and Information System for Developing Countries, a think tank sponsored by the Indian Ministry of External Affairs. Until recently he was Global Justice Fellow at the MacMillan Center for International Affairs at Yale University.

This is a fascinating and informative book: nothing less than a new guide to modern development cooperation. It shows us how the fight against poverty works in a world barreling towards multipolarity. It foretells a new paradigm based on the experiences of the old and the new approaches of the emerging economies in the world Provocative and challenging.

• Foreword by Jomo Kwame SundaramIntroduction - Elizabeth Sidiropoulos, Thomas Fues, Sachin ChaturvediPart One: South-South cooperation1. Development cooperation: contours, evolution and scope - Sachin Chaturvedi2. South-South economic cooperation for a better future - Manmohan AgarwalPart Two: Lessons from the experiences of traditional aid policies3. Sixty years of development aid: shifting goals and perverse incentives - Ross Herbert4. Aid effectiveness and emerging donors: lessons from the EU experience - James MackiePart Three: New actors, new innovations5. Brazil: towards innovation in development cooperation - Enrique Saravia6. China's evolving aid landscape: crossing the river by feeling the stones - Zhou Hong7. India and development cooperation: expressing Southern solidarity - Sachin Chaturvedi8. Mexico: linking Mesoamerica - Maximo Romero9. South Africa: development, international cooperation and soft power - Elizabeth SidiropoulosConclusion: towards a global consensus on development cooperation - Thomas Fues, Sachin Chaturvedi and Elizabeth SidiropoulosAfterword by Adolf Kloke-Lesch