A Cooperação Técnica entre Países em Desenvolvimento (CTPD) da Agência Brasileira de Cooperação (ABC-MRE): o Brasil como doador

Abstract

At the end of the 1970s, the First United Nations Conference on Technical Cooperation among Developing Countries, held in Buenos Aires, has given visibility to the debate on new cooperation arrangements. The meeting in Buenos Aires, albeit limited, served to systematize the discourse on TCDC, and also contributed to suggest a different conception of international cooperation. Thus, the dissertation aims to raise the terms of the contemporary debate on Technical Cooperation among Developing Countries (TCDC) and locate the United States - more specifically, the Brazilian Cooperation Agency - in this debate. We defend the idea according to which Brazil has contributed, through its activity of TCDC, with the horizontalisation of cooperation discourse and practice. That is, we believe that the performance of the Brazilian Cooperation Agency carrying out projects and participating in international forums regarding TCDC has helped to spread a more balanced conception of international cooperation, in contrast to the predominant design in traditional arrangements, North x South, of international aid