European Development Cooperation to 2020:

Emerging Issues

Simon Maxwell

The argument

1. European Development Cooperation has been on a journey – and this will continue

2. The next decade will see big challenges

3. A new research policy partnership can put Europe in the forefront – if we get it right

EDC 2008: an infrastructure fit for purpose (almost)

• EuropeAid• DPS• Deconcentration• Code of Conduct• Coherence• Financial Perspectives• CFSP• Lisbon Treaty

• Pending for 2009: Commission structure, Budget/EDF, EPAs, future of the ACP

Is this the end of the beginning?

Elephant issues driving the development agenda

• New actors: China, India, and the analytics of globalisation

• New securities: energy and other

• Global public goods, including climate change

Implication for governments?

Aid

TradeForeign Policy

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The exam question:will there be a European comparative advantage –

and a reform agenda?• Values

• Policies

• Structures

• Programmes

• Implementation

N.B

Positive questions

Normative questions

Europe

Nations

Less Pro-poor

More Pro-poor

Four scenarios for European Development Cooperation

Europe

Nations

Less Pro-poor

More Pro-poor

PROGRESSION

COMPRESSIONSECESSION

RETROGRESSION

The research commitment

(a) The story-teller

(b) The networker

(c) The engineer

(d) The fixer

The policy commitment?

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