Indian Politics & Policy Volume 1, Number 2, Fall 2018 | Page 58
Foreign Assistance in India’s Foreign Policy:
Political and Economic Determinants
Eswaran Sridharan
University of Pennsylvania Institute for
the Advanced Study of India, New Delhi
[email protected]
Aashik Jain
MetLife GOSC
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Indian Politics & Policy • Vol. 1, No. 2 • Fall 2018
Abstract
This paper describes and analyzes the emerging Indian development
cooperation program in the context of India’s foreign relations
and policy. The paper begins by situating India and other
emerging donors in the international aid architecture. It then
analyzes the Indian program in terms of the key questions—how
much, to whom, for what, how, and why?—focusing on the quantum,
direction, modalities, institutions, and, crucially, motivations.
It describes in detail the relationships with the main recipients in
South Asia, Afghanistan, Myanmar, and with Africa, situating the
assistance program in the larger political and security context of
India’s foreign policy and India’s trade and investment relationships.
It is argued that the Indian development cooperation program’s
South Asian regional and extended neighborhood focus is
largely politically and security-motivated and the emerging shift in
focus to Africa is for long-term relationship building rather than
immediately correlated with trade and investment relationships.
The program does not impose macroeconomic policy conditions
but is largely tied to Indian-sourced supplies.
Keywords: South Asia, Sub-Saharan Africa, policy, security, foreign
aid, partnership
Resumen
Este documento describe y analiza el emergente programa de cooperación
para el desarrollo de la India en el contexto de las relacio-
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doi: 10.18278/inpp.1.2.3