ANU Australian Development Studies Centre/Network

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The Australian Development Studies Centre / Network is a small multidisciplinary organization at the ANU that encourages discussion and the widespread exchange of knowledge of global social and economic development issues, development-related research, and international aid policy and practice. It promotes and provides opportunities for open discussion on development issues between universities and colleges, government and non-government organizations (NGO), aid practitioners, communities and the private sector. Three publications of the Development Studies Network are included in this collection:

Newsletter (1984-1989)

The Newsletter was a publication of the Development Studies Centre, housed within Resources, Environment & Development (RE&D). Each issue provided a number of concise papers on a significant and topical development issue written by respected professionals and provided a variety of perspectives from different disciplines and development experiences. In October 1989, the Newsletter's title change to Development Bulletin.

Development Bulletin (1989-Present)

Each issue of the Development Bulletin contains concise papers on a significant and topical development issue. Contributors include development professionals from NGOs, multilateral and donor agencies, academics, as well as researchers and field workers from developing countries.

Briefing Papers (1985-2005) There are 35 issue in this series with each having a distinctive title.

Women, Gender and Development in the Pacific papers (2005) This is a collection 87 papers on Pacific women, gender and development that were originally published in issues 34, 51, 53, 56-60, 62-64, 66 and 68 of the Development Bulletin and compiled by the Development Studies Network in 2005.

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    National Competition Policy and (the) public interest
    (National Centre for Development Studies, 1999) Hess, Michael; Adams, David
    Contemporary public sector reforms in Australia have been dominated by efficiency, productivity and contestability considerations captured in National Competition Policy (NCP). Both in the reform process in general and in the NCP processes in particular, the lack of priority attributed to non-economic concerns such as coordination, equity, representation, political accountability, consultation and distributive outcomes has been a serious omission. The idea of public interst, once central to democratic public administration, has re-emerged to challenge the perceived excesses of economic rationalism as the unifying idea of reform. Although public interest stands in a long tradition in public administration, it is a complex and contested idea which requires significiant development if it is to have policy utility in the reform process. Nonetheless public interest may be viewed as an analytical frame which enables a rebalancing of the ideas which influence policymaking. In this paper it is argued that substantive situational manifestations of public interest can be used to complement rather than undermine the efficiency, productivity and contestability objectives of public sector reform.
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