ABSTRACT
This chapter draws together the main preceding arguments and discussions. In doing so, the authors bring to the fore the economy-politics dialectics from the vantage points of the donors and recipients alike. Subsequently, the authors revert to the questions of power relationships, the emerging notions of nativist interest vis-à-vis cosmopolitanism. In response to these questions, the discussion turns, however speculatively, to: (1) the influence of populism, de-globalisation and illiberal democracy on foreign development, on the one hand, and the impact of the Beijing Consensus on the Washington Consensus-based MDBs, on the other; and (2) the interdependency of the theoretical frameworks and foreign aid strategic practices. In the latter context, the discussion turns to resolving the question whether theoretical frameworks follow from the strategic practices or the other way around.
