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Ignoring the elephant in the room? Assessing the impact of the European Union on the Development Assistance Committee's role in international development
Author(s) -
Verschaeve Joren,
Orbie Jan
Publication year - 2018
Publication title -
development policy review
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.671
H-Index - 61
eISSN - 1467-7679
pISSN - 0950-6764
DOI - 10.1111/dpr.12216
Subject(s) - european union , coherence (philosophical gambling strategy) , political science , international development , development aid , development (topology) , international trade , economics , law , physics , quantum mechanics , mathematical analysis , mathematics
This article studies the impact of the European Union ( EU ) on the Development Assistance Committee ( DAC ) of the Organisation for Economic Co‐operation and Development ( OECD ). While the literature thus far has focused on the external challenges for the DAC 's role in international development, this study argues that the EU should be taken into account as well. By focusing on the cases of policy coherence for development and the concessionality of official development assistance ( ODA ) loans, we show that the EU poses a structural challenge for the DAC 's role in international development given the strong overlap in membership between both institutions and the Union's changing nature as a development actor.