Development Bulletin 39 (1996). The future of Australia's aid programme

DISCUSSION SERIES: The 1996-97 Aid Budget: A sharper humanitarian focus / Andrew Thomson, page 5. The future of Australia's aid programme / Gordon Bilney, page 8. A new paradigm for aid / John Langmore, page 12. Commercial objectives of the Australian aid programme / Bob Warner and Sandy Cuthbertson, page 16. In search of an Australian overseas aid policy / John Browett and Susanne Schech, page 19. Australian aid to Africa: Can donor interest and recipient needs be reconciled? / Christine McMurray, page 22. A new agenda for Australian aid / Russell Rollason, page 26. Overseas aid: The scalpel and the suture / Dean Forbes, page 29. A poverty focused aid programme / Beris Gwynne, page 31. Balancing humanitarian needs and Australian interests: The need for a poverty focused philosophy for aid and development / Cherry Gertzel, page 34. Increasing the poverty focus of Australian ODA / Joe Remenyi, page 36. Globalisation, poverty eradication and aid / Patrick Kilby, page 38. Aid: The way ahead / Janet Hunt, page 41. Non government organisations and aid / Denis Griffin, page 43. The future of aid: Contextual challenges and opportunities / Greg Thompson, page 46. The role of civil society in development / John Scott Murphy, page 49. A sharper humanitarian focus: The case of Australia's aid to Papua New Guinea, 1970-71 to 1993-94 / Rukmani Gounder, page 52. Results of an opinion poll on overseas aid, page 56. Recommendations of the Joint Standing Committee on Foreign Affairs, Defence and Trade, page 57. Terms of reference for the review of Australia's aid programme, page 58. VIEWPOINT: Black access to electronic research services in South Africa: Problems and prospects for real change / Peter Limb, page 9. UPDATES: Food security, population and development / Joint statement by the Asian Forum of Parliamentarians on Population and Development, page 62. Privatisation / Colin Kirkpatrick, page 65. New Zealand-African relations: The end of an era / David Dorward, page 67. FROM THE FIELD: Engendering eco-timber production in the Solomon Islands / Regina Scheyvens, page 69. Pre-departure briefing for aid workers: Benefits for NGOs / Gordon Knowles, page 73. Training as a component of community economic development in rural Vietnam / Kathryn Gow, page 75. FROM THE PRESS, page 77. CONFERENCES, page 79. PUBLICATIONS, page 86. COURSES, page 100. RESOURCES, page 103. BRIEFING PAPERS: Charity or rights? A human rights framework for complex emergencies/ Bernard Broughton. The role of education in post doi moi Vietnam / Ary LauferANU College of Asia and the Pacific, Resource Management in Asia Pacific Program; AusAI