December 1979's Issue
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Featured in issue 082
Keeping the patient alive
Wayne Ellwood holds the aid elixir up to the light and asks whether it can ever be the cure for underdevelopment.
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Questions to ask about an aid project
The San Francisco-based Institute for Food and Development Policy raises eight key questions for judging aid projects.
- Flora Moon
- 1 Dec 1979
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Health care as if people mattered
Appropriate technology for good health in the U.K; Canadian churches and human rights in Latin America; a campaign against harmful consumer products in Australia; and Britain’s Counter Information Service.
- 1 Dec 1979
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The draining away of aid
The New Internationalist sketches some of the drains en route, and just where the flows end up.
- 1 Dec 1979
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Deferring tough decisions
A New Internationalist special correspondent reports on Indonesia’s concentration on big-budget growth.
- 1 Dec 1979
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Aid off the mark
Where ties between the aid donor and recipient are strong, distorted development is hard to avoid. ROBIN OSBORNE examines Papua New Guinea’s relationship with Australia.
- Robin Osborne
- 1 Dec 1979
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Smothered with kindness
Brian Murphy looks at the results of such a massive infusion of aid and concludes that the real winner might not be Lesotho’s rural poor but the Republic of South Africa.
- Brian Murphy
- 1 Dec 1979
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Food Confusion
Food aid seems to have everything going for it. The only problem is it doesn’t seem to work. PETER STALKER looks at the evidence.
- Peter Stalker and Jack Nelson
- 1 Dec 1979
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Foreign Aid builds a New Trojan Horse
Robert Carty examines the emphasis on increased agricultural productivity and finds the ultimate winners are middle-class farmers and Western agribusiness firms.
- Robert Carty
- 1 Dec 1979
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Going it alone in Botswana
STEVE SEABORN reports on a Botswana weaving cooperative aimed at building self-reliance.
- Steve Seaborn
- 1 Dec 1979
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