Anchor country
As anchor countries are emerging and developing countries referred to, which are of outstanding economic and political importance in the regional context. This can be positive, in the sense of a regional locomotive function, or negative, in the sense of transnational stagnation or susceptibility to crises. It arises from economic ties with other countries and from its particular importance for regional integration processes, as well as partly from less tangible model functions.
A number of anchor countries are intervening increasingly self-confidently and actively in international economic and political events; they play an important role in the further development of global governance structures.
The German Development Institute defines 15 countries as anchor countries :
literature
- Andreas Stamm: Emerging and anchor countries as actors in a global partnership. German Development Institute, Bonn 2004, ISBN 3-88985-272-6 ( PDF, 300 kB ).