India as an emerging donor

Economic and Political Weekly

Volumn 44, Issue 12, 2009, Pages 11-14

  Chanana, Dweep ^a,b  

^a UBS AG   (Kenya)

^b UNDP ^*  (Kenya)

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References (10)

1. Bilateral and multilateral aid flows are typically analysed separately to understand their determinants. For more on the determinants of bilateral aid, see Alberto Alesina and David Dollar, "Who Gives Foreign Aid to Whom and Why?" Journal of Economic Growth, Vol 5, No 1, March 2000
2. Adjusted for inflation, this amount would be approximately INR three billion in 2008
3. Country profile: Bhutan, http://www.fco.gov.uk/en/about-the-fco/country- profiles/asia-oceania/bhutan?profile=all (accessed 7 January 2009)
4. The exchange rate used is Rs 48,7326 to 1. This is the monthly average for January 2009 as provided by http://x-rates.com
5. The definition used here differs from that of the OECD's Development Assistance Committee's broadly accepted definition. To understand the standard definition, see Larry Nowels, "Foreign Aid: Understanding Data Used to Compare Donors", CRS Report for Congress, Congressional Research Service, 7 June 2006
6. This figure excludes loans provided by Indian public-sector enterprises, such as the 450 million loan by the NTPC to the Trincomalee Coal Power Plant in Sri Lanka, in 2007 (See "Foreign Borrowing of 500 Million", Position Paper, Transparency International Sri Lanka, September 2007)
7. Joseph S Nye Jr, "Soft Power and Leadership", Compass: A Journal of Leadership, Spring 2004
8. Jayshree Bajoria, "India-Afghanistan Relations", CFR, 23 October 2008, http://www.cfr. org/publication/17474/indiaafghanistan-relations. html (accessed 7 January 2009)
9. Raghuram G Rajan and Arvind Subramanian, "What Undermines Aid's Impact on Growth?" IMF Working Paper WP/05/126, June 2005
10. A C Prabhakar, "An Evaluation of Indian Jointventures in East Africa", INSouth.org, October 2008.