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Has Spanish international development and aid policy done ‘more with less’? Crisis, horizontal cooperation and complexity

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  • Ileana Daniela Serban
  • Andrea Betti

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By approaching the question of complexity in international development through governance lenses, this article proposes the use of complexity as an innovative and enabling framework for understanding how policy practices emerge in international development and how their use is consolidated by actors who learn in an adaptive way from their policy environment. To apply this conceptual framework, we discuss the case of Spanish international development. Thus, we aim to understand and explain the policy journey through which Spain has started to use new policy practices related to horizontal cooperation with emerging donors in Latin America. The article proceeds by first analysing the political discourse of the Spanish government on international development. Second, we triangulate the initial findings with information coming from peer reviews and survey data, analysing the impact and perceptions of Spanish international development policies. The analysis shows the relevance of a complexity approach when analysing international development governance mechanisms and emerging policy practices. This sheds light on the challenges of the related learning journey, with potential relevance across policy topics in international development.

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  • Ileana Daniela Serban & Andrea Betti, 2023. "Has Spanish international development and aid policy done ‘more with less’? Crisis, horizontal cooperation and complexity," Third World Quarterly, Taylor & Francis Journals, vol. 44(12), pages 2498-2515, December.
  • Handle: RePEc:taf:ctwqxx:v:44:y:2023:i:12:p:2498-2515
    DOI: 10.1080/01436597.2023.2242793
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