 In
this issue
No.
126 August 1983
 
LettersUpdate
Taking
Issue - Ashok Mitra
Reaching
the poorest:
Six rules for real aid
Glen
Williams assumes the role of Harry Hapgood, a fictitious aid official
who set the cat among the pigeons at the Overseas Development Office.
The
facts about aid
Rule
one: Aim at the poorest
Paul Streeten
argues the case for targeting aid on the needs of the poorest 40 per cent.
Rule
two: Mobilise the poor
Maitrayee Mukhopaadhyay
illustrates how aid can help poor people develop their own forms of organisation.
Rule
Three: Fit aid to countries
Peter Stalker urges donors to tailor their aid
to political realities in the Third World
Rule
Four: Rebuild the aid machine
Government aid funds can directly assist grassroots development.
Richard Kaziz explains how.
Rule
Five: Abolish sham aid
Adrian Hewitt tells how real aid is eroded by
‘mixed credit’ deals to promote rich country exports.
Rule
Six: Have an independent audit
Independent evaluations are needed to check whether aid projects
match up to the rhetoric. A report from Kaye Bysouth.
Worth
reading on.. AID
Boomerang
aid
'Tying' aid to exports from donor countries means that 7 out
of every 10 aid dollars come straight back to the donors.
Real
Aid: making it happen
John Clarke outlines a campaign strategy.
Ideas
for action
Special
note to readers
This
issue of ‘New Internationalist’
is a careful blend of fact and fiction. You will find
the usual facts feature and seven main articles on the
theme of Real Aid. But you will also find letter, diary
notes, and photos made fictitious aid official, Harry
Hapgood, who visits development projects in six different
countries. We trace Harry’s reluctant conversion
from a conventional bureaucrat to an enlightened aid
reformer. Although our hero and his world tour are pure
fiction, the projects and places he visits are real.
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