No. 285 / November 1996

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The poverty of aid

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• From this month's editor
  David Ransom
  
  
• The poverty of aid
  Official aid is at its lowest level ever. And it doesn't reach the poor. David Ransom asks what can - and what should - be salvaged.
  
  
• The great escape
  The keys to a radical transformation.
  
  
• Republic of the landless
  Carlos Tautz reports on a movement in Brazil that likes to use its own legs.
  
  
• Does aid matter?
  Hope Chigudu, Alex de Waal, Naila Kabeer, Charles Abugre, Hans Singer and Michael Taylor don't agree.
  
  
• Mea culpa run riot
  Maggie Black lambasts the 'developmenteers'.
  
  
• AID - THE FACTS
  
  
• Pulling the plug
  Whatever happened to the 'Scandinavia of North America'? Mark Fried investigates.
  
  
• Both eyes open
  Manomi Suzuki keeps Japan - the world's biggest aid donor - under scrutiny.
  
  
• No tears for Theogen
  John Le Fevre finds abandoned children fending for themselves on Rwanda's rubbish dumps.
  
  
• A new Raj dawning
  Mari Marcel Thekaekara reports on the mounting anger of India's poor in a country that seems to be getting richer by the day.
  
  
• Official aid - a brief history
  
  
• Demand and supply
  Steve Hellinger sets out his critique - and some of the solutions.
  
  
• Action directory
  

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• Letters
• Letter from Russia
• Update
• The NI Interview with Camille Chalmers
• Reviews: film, books and music plus Audre Lord classic
• Curiosities and the NI Crossword
• Endpiece by Christine Aziz
• Country profile: Tajikistan

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