ABSTRACT
For the past decades, Brazil has been internationally recognized as a site for social policy innovation, progressively engaging in policy exports to Latin America, Africa and beyond. This chapter analyzes the coexisting policy diffusion dynamics channeled through Brazilian South-South Development Cooperation, between 2003 and 2016. Looking at the examples of two policy instruments, namely cash transfers and public food procurement, we argue that the nature of the cooperation arrangement (bilateral South-South exchanges, trilateral cooperation, bloc cooperation), the main national and international actors engaged, as well as their installed capacities and motivations shape the policy diffusion processes in Latin America and Africa, with notable variations across instruments as well as across regions in terms of diffusion channels and process, as well as aspired (or eventually achieved) policy changes.
