This volume addresses the changing nature of the international aid system and the challenges it poses for the multilateral system, donors and aid recipients, centring on new regional and national relationships developing in the multilateral system, economic and social forces, and national and global policy making.

Changes in the Nature of Multilateral Development Cooperation: Implications for Multilateral, Bilateral and Emerging Donors; His Excellency Joaquim Alberto Chissano New Diplomacy in Multilateral Development Cooperation; Winston Dookeran Introduction: Multilateralism in an Era of Change by Hany Besada and Shannon Kindornay PART I: MULTILATERAL DEVELOPMENT COOPERATION: THE CURRENT STATE OF PLAY 1. How Infrastructure Investment Can Advance the Development Agenda; Justin Yifu Lin 2. Reshaping International Institutions to Achieve Millennium Development Goals; Manmohan Agarwal 3. Rethinking the Role of Multilateral Institutions in an Ever-Changing Aid Architecture; Michael Blomfield and Homi Kharas PART II: CASES IN MULTILATERAL DEVELOPMENT COOPERATION: OLD AND NEW CHALLENGES 4. Building Country Capacity for Development Results: How does the International Aid Effectiveness Agenda Address the Capacity Gaps?; Franke Toornstra and Frédéric Martin 5. Increasing the Effectiveness of Multilateraland Bilateral Aid: Lessons from the Global AIDS Response; Franklyn Lisk, Praddep Kakkitil and Musa Bullaleh 6. The Role of the Third Sector as Partners in the Development Aid System; David Felsen and Hany Besada 7. Canada's Fraying Commitment to Multilateral Development Cooperation; Stephen Brown and Michael Olender 8. Assessing the Relevance of the WTO in International Trade and Development; Pablo Heidrich PART III: EMERGING MULTILATERALISMS: POSSIBILITIES FOR THE 21ST CENTURY 9. New Donors and Old Practices: The Role of China in the Multilateral System; Arjan de Haan and Ward Warmerdam 10. South-South Cooperation: How Does Gender Equality Factor in the Emerging Multilateralism?; George Kararach, Frannie Léautier and Towera Luhanga 11. Establishing a Legitimate Development Co-operation Architecture in the Post-Busan Era; Shannon Kindornay and Yiagadeesen Samy