Editing Foreign relations of Brazil (section)

==Foreign aid==
[[Overseas aid]] has become an increasingly important tool for Brazil's foreign policy.<ref name="ODI1">Cabral and Weinstock 2010. [http://www.odi.org.uk/resources/details.asp?id=5120&title=brazil-election-emerging-donor-aid Brazil: an emerging aid player] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110113185641/http://www.odi.org.uk/resources/details.asp?id=5120&title=brazil-election-emerging-donor-aid |date=2011-01-13 }}. London: [[Overseas Development Institute]]</ref> Brazil provides [[aid]] through the '''Brazilian Agency of Cooperation''' (Abbreviation: '''ABC'''; {{langx|pt|Agência Brasileira de Cooperação}}), in addition to offering scientific, economical, and technical support. More than half of Brazilian aid is provided to Africa, whereas Latin America receives around 20% of Brazilian aid. The share of aid allocated to the Asian continent is small.{{sfn|Abellán|Alonso|2017|p=7}} Within Africa, more than 80% of Brazilian aid is received by Portuguese-speaking countries.{{sfn|Abellán|Alonso|2017|p=9}} Brazil concentrates its aid for Portuguese-speaking countries in the education sector, specially in secondary and post-secondary education, but it is more committed to agricultural development in other countries.{{sfn|Abellán|Alonso|2017|p=11}} Estimated to be around $1 billion annually, Brazil is on par with China and India and ahead of many more traditional donor countries.<ref name="ODI1"/> The aid tends to consist of technical aid and expertise, alongside a quiet non-confrontational diplomacy to development results.<ref name="ODI1"/> Brazil's aid demonstrates a developing pattern of South-South aid, which has been heralded as a 'global model in waiting'.<ref>Cabral, Lidia 2010. [http://blogs.odi.org.uk/blogs/main/archive/2010/07/22/brazil_south_south_cooperation.aspx Brazil’s development cooperation with the South: a global model in waiting] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110430190841/http://blogs.odi.org.uk/blogs/main/archive/2010/07/22/brazil_south_south_cooperation.aspx |date=2011-04-30 }}. London: [[Overseas Development Institute]]</ref> Concomitantly, South-South relations have become a major subfield of specialisation among Brazilian foreign policy experts.<ref>{{Cite book |last=Alejandro |first=Audrey |url=http://dx.doi.org/10.4324/9781315170480 |title=Western Dominance in International Relations? |date=2018-10-10 |publisher=Routledge |isbn=978-1-315-17048-0 |page=35|doi=10.4324/9781315170480 |s2cid=158923831 }}</ref> Some studies have suggested that, by giving aid, Brazil could be trying to get access to mineral and energy resources.{{sfn|Abellán|Alonso|2017|pp=12-13}}