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India’s Development Partnership & Sustainable Development in a New World Order

Swati Prabhu

The book attempts to understand India’s long-standing development cooperation policy within the ambit of South-South Cooperation. India’s booming economic growth has perceptibly upset the delicate balance between its position as a recipient of development aid and as a provider of development aid to other Southern economies. Identifying these shifts is one of the primary objectives of this book. Further, the book also examines the inherent linkages between India’s partnership initiatives and the larger sustainability agenda. It offers an overview of the country’s development cooperation objectives and how it has evolved over the years. Given the current fragmented development landscape accompanied by fraying of the traditional donors, India’s partnerships will play a pivotal role in the future.

Swati Prabhu

Dr Swati Prabhu is a Fellow with the Centre for New Economic Diplomacy at Observer Research Foundation (ORF). Her research explores the idea of aid, role of the global South, and evolving development partnerships. Swati’s broader research interests include India-EU relations, EU development policy, and sustainable development. She previously served as a Research Coordinator at Think20 (T20) India Secretariat under India’s G20 presidency. Swati has completed her PhD from Jawaharlal Nehru University (JNU), India where her research focused on the European Union’s development policy and environment highlighting the challenges of the SDGs. Swati has authored several policy briefs on furthering India-EU relations for the EU-India Think Tanks Twinning Initiative (EUITTI). She is the author of European Union’s Connectivity Agenda: Forging Partnerships for Environmental Governance (Palgrave Macmillan, 2025).

Contents

Acknowledgements

Acronyms and Abbreviations

Tables and Figures

1. Introduction
2. Historical Evolution of Development Partnerships
3. Tracing India’s Development Partnership Model
4. India’s Development Partnership Initiatives and Sustainable Development
5. Positioning India’s Development Partnership in the Global Aid Architecture
6. Conclusions