Brazil as a development actor: South-South cooperation and the IBSA initiative

This report looks at Brazil as a development partner, its external perception as an important and crucial country for regional stability, and projection of its global identity as a ‘voice’ for the developing world in crucial international debates. The report notes that, although Brazil has less economic, demographic and territorial resources than other rising powers, like China and India, it is an interesting partner for triangular development cooperation projects as it shares key values with the European Union and countries like Canada (for example, in the fields of democracy, human rights and its approach to multilateralism). It also has special know-how thanks to its domestic experiences in combating underdevelopment, hunger and health problems, and it has the added value of local, historical (post-colonial) and cultural proximity to the developing world, especially South Africa, the Caribbean and lusophone countries in Africa and Asia.