What happens when those who were once recipeints of foreign aid become donors? What will this mean for international development and international relations? This is the topic discussed in the opening lecture at Cambridge's May 2010 International Development Course. Emma Mawdsley is a lecturer in the Geography Department of the University of Cambridge.

1. The ‘emerging donors’ and the changing landscape of development Emma Mawdsley

2. Development in the next 50 years Context : the changing geographies of economic and political power (and their impacts on development) BRICs: Brazil, Russia, India, China

5. Direct Complementary Competitive Indirect Cheap Chinese exports good for poorer consumers Indian demands for a fairer world trade system might help lower agricultural barriers for all LDCs Mexican maquiladora workers lose jobs as manufacturing migrates to China The BRICs resist climate change progress – bad news for Africa

6. Direct Complementary Competitive Indirect Indian demands for a fairer world trade system might help lower agricultural barriers for all LDCs Mexican maquiladora workers lose jobs as manufacturing migrates to China The BRICs resist climate change progress – bad news for Africa Aid?

7. Direct Complementary Competitive Indirect Indian demands for a fairer world trade system might help lower agricultural barriers for all LDCs The BRICs resist climate change progress – bad news for Africa Aid? Cheap Chinese exports good for poorer consumers

8. Direct Complementary Competitive Indirect Indian demands for a fairer world trade system might help lower agricultural barriers for all LDCs The BRICs resist climate change progress – bad news for Africa Aid? Cheap Chinese exports good for poorer consumers

9. DEVELOPMENT ASSISTANCE COMMITTEE (OECD) members Australia, Austria, Belgium, Canada, Denmark, European Commission, Finland, France, Germany, Greece, Ireland, Italy, Japan, Luxemburg, New Zealand, Norway, Portugal, South Korea, Spain, Sweden, Switzerland, The Netherlands, United Kingdom, United States.

10. The main non-DAC donors Brazil, Bulgaria, China, Cuba, Cyprus, Czech Republic, Estonia, Hungary, Iceland, India, Israel, Kuwait, Latvia, Lithuania, Malta, Mexico, Poland, Romania, Russia, Saudi Arabia, Slovak Republic, Slovenia, South Africa, Taiwan, Thailand, Turkey, United Arab Emirates, Venezuela

16. DAC donors ‘ Emerging ’ donors Charity Opportunity Moral obligation to the unfortunate Solidarity with other Third World countries Expertise based on superior knowledge, institutions, science and technology Expertise based on direct experience of pursuing development in poor country circumstances Sympathy for different and distant Others Empathy based on a shared identity and experience The virtue of suspended obligation, a lack of reciprocation The virtue of mutual benefit and recognition of reciprocity

17. DAC donors ‘ Emerging ’ donors Commercial and geopolitical self-interest Commercial and geopolitical self-interest Hegemony The challenge to hegemony National superiority National superiority Inadequate responses to gross inequality Growing differences in interests within the Third World Inadequate acknowledgement of past and present responsibility Interference in the sovereign affairs of other states