On the margins of aid orthodoxy: The Brazil-Mozambique collaboration to produce essential medicines in Africa

Authors: de Oliveira L, Russo G, Shankland A, Sitoe T
Publication Year: 2014
Journal: Globalization and Health
Link: http://www.globalizationandhealth.com/content/10/1/70

This paper looks into practicalities and evolution of this collaboration to illustrate the characteristics of Brazilian development cooperation in health, with the aim of drawing lessons for the wider debate on aid and local production of pharmaceuticals in Africa.
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Brazil and the Shifting Consensus on Development Co-Operation: Salutary Diversions from the ‘Aid-Effectiveness’ Trail?

Authors: Cabral L, Russo G, Weinstock J
Publication Year: 2014
Journal: Development Policy Review
Link: http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/dpr.12050/abstract;jsessionid=3317854DB3D2D6B68C04FD47630308B9.f01t03

This article draws on research on Brazil’s technical co-operation and its health dimension to compare the Brazilian model with established aid-effectiveness’ principles and to discuss the appropriateness of the latter as standards against which to appraise emerging donors’ co-operation.
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