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Suggest measures so that India’s partnership with Africa becomes a true symbol of South South Cooperation, delivering clear-cut economic and political dividends to both sides of the equation.

  • UPSC 2017
  • 20 marks
  • India and the Global South

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South–South cooperation rests on national ownership, equality, non-conditionality and mutual benefit, principles reaffirmed in the UN's Nairobi outcome document (2009). Emma Mawdsley (2012) cautions that this "symbolic regime" of shared identity and mutual opportunity should not be taken at face value: it must be shown in results. India's Africa partnership meets the principles in design,…

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  • Institutional measures
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  • Dividends for both sides
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