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Eastern Donors and Western Soft Law: Towards a DAC Donor Peer Review of China and India?
Author(s) -
Paulo Sebastian,
Reisen Helmut
Publication year - 2010
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/j.1467-7679.2010.00497.x
Subject(s) - soft law , normative , china , compliance (psychology) , relevance (law) , political science , architecture , field (mathematics) , international law , law , geography , psychology , social psychology , mathematics , archaeology , pure mathematics
The international system is still governed by a normative framework designed mainly by OECD countries, especially with regard to soft‐law standards in the field of development co‐operation. However, the growing relevance of ‘Eastern donors’ is weakening its efficiency and raises the question of how compliance with these standards can be assured in a changing donor landscape. Despite efforts to integrate emerging countries into the traditional approach of the OECD Development Assistance Committee (DAC) to monitoring compliance through peer reviews, the aid architecture of the future might turn out to be a synthesis of established and new approaches.