Policy Briefs & Reports

The State of Indian Development Cooperation: A Report

Rani Mullen, Sanskriti Jain
Hemant Shivakumar, Kailash Prasad, Sanjana Haribhakti

Centre for Policy Research & Indian Development Cooperation Research

March 28, 2014

Indian development cooperation has changed remarkably since its inception, shortly after its independence.The size and diversity of India’s development partnerships have grown, particularly over the past decade, nearly quadrupling in volume. Today, Indian development assistance is comparable to the foreign aid budgets of smaller, high-income European countries with one underlying difference: the Indian development cooperation budget is growing at a higher rate. With IDCR’s Spring 2014 report ‘The State of Indian Development Cooperation,’ we share our insights on India’s growing development assistance program.