
No. 285 / November 1996
The poverty of aid

- 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'.
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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.
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Official aid - a brief history
- Demand and supply
Steve Hellinger sets out his critique - and some of the solutions.
- Action directory
- 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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