OECD Unable, BRICS Unwilling: Can the International Development Assistance System Change?

... channel resources to vulnerable neighboring countries and leverage foreign ministries; Brazil engages with Portuguese-speaking nations and multilateral platforms. But all the countries share a drive to strengthen their national systems. For example, Russia is working on a draft federal law on international development assistance, aimed at streamlining the country’s aid provision. Despite the explicit call in the 2014 Concept of the Russian Federation’s State Policy in the Area of International Development Assistance to “place greater emphasis on ...