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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Item Open Access Motivational factors affecting Bougainville villagers' money earning activity([Canberra] : Development Studies Centre, Australian National University, Research School of Pacific Studies, c1975, 1975) Moulik, T. KItem Open Access Women, Gender and Development in the Pacific papers(Australian Development Studies Centre, The Australian National University) Australian National University. Australian Development Studies NetworkThe Development Studies Network serves as the repository of the Women, Gender and Development in the Pacific papers, 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 were compiled by the Development Studies Network in 2005.Item Open Access Development Bulletin (Australian Development Studies Network)(Australian Development Studies Centre, The Australian National University) Australian Development Studies NetworkThe Development Bulletin is a biannual journal of the Development Studies Network, a small multidisciplinary organization which encourages discussion and widespread exchange of knowledge of global social and economic development issues, development-related research, and international aid policy and practice, housed within RE&D. Each issue provides a number of concise papers on a significant and topical development issue written by respected professionals and provides a variety of perspectives from different disciplines and development experiences.Item Open Access Newsletter (Australian Development Studies Network)(Australian Development Studies Centre, The Australian National University) Australian National University. Australian Development Studies NetworkThe Newsletter was a publication of the Australian Development Studies Centre, a small multidisciplinary organization which encourages discussion and widespread exchange of knowledge of global social and economic development issues, development-related research, and international aid policy and practice, housed within Resources, Environment & Development. 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. After October 1989, the Newsletter's title change to Development Bulletin.Item Open Access Thesis abstracts No.2 : Masters degree in agricultural development economics(Australian Development Studies Centre, The Australian National University) Australian National University. Development Studies Centre; Etherington, D. M; Boucher, B. C. FThe Masters Degree programme in Agricultural Development Economics (M.A.D.E.) at the Australian National University was offered for the first time in 1972 in response to a suggestion from senior agricultural researchers in Sri Lanka. The programme is focused on young administrators, research workers, academics and extension officers concerned with agricultural development in Asia, the Pacific and certain other areas. It aims to provide individuals who already have suitable basic degrees with postgraduate education useful to them in tackling the economic problems of agricultural development.Item Open Access The debt crisis: obstacle to development or path to democracy?(Australian Development Studies Centre, The Australian National University) George, SusanThe debt of Third World nations exceeds $1.3 trillion. This paper analyses the factors which combined to bring about this situation and reveals the devastating effects that the debt crisis and 'stabilisation' policies are having on the Third World's poor and on the world's environment. The author suggests some imaginative solutions, which address the debt crisis in ways designed to contribute both to democratisation and environmental rehabilitation.Item Open Access Voluntary organisations and the challenge of sustainable development(Australian Development Studies Centre, The Australian National University) Korten, David C.That the world faces a global social and environmental crisis is now beyond question. The issue is how to address it. The institutions of government, including inter-governmental bodies, generally approach solutions within the framework of the conventional growth-centred development vision that has guided most development action over the past several decades. Investment, growth in economic activity, resource exploitation, debt financing, specialisation, corporate ownership, and emphasis on international markets are cornerstones of this vision. This vision dominates policy action at global and national levels. An alternative people-centred development vision, articulated and promoted primarily by voluntary organisations (VOs) emphasises human well-being, stewardship of environmental resources, local self-reliance in basic needs, development of domestic markets, broadly based political and economic participation, local control of environmental resources, and strong participatory local government. The paper questions whether solutions based on the conventional vision are likely to be effective if, as some critics claim, the vision itself is largely to blame for the current crisis. It also asks whether institutions that are competent only in activities that support the conventional vision are in a position to provide needed leadership. It is argued that VOs, ie. organisations driven by a shared value commitment, have a substantial advantage over governmental organisations as catalysts of the type of institutional and values change required to resolve the global crisis. This will involve VOs increasingly in national and global networks concerned with advocacy and public education on policy issues. A two-fold agenda is suggested. The first agenda item calls for historical country assessments of the social and environmental impact of foreign assistance, and trade and corporate investment policies. The second agenda item calls for the documentation of local initiatives that involve comprehensive approaches to development of productive, sustainable, and self-reliant local economies on a meaningful scale.Item Open Access Demographic and social change in Vietnam(Australian Development Studies Centre, The Australian National University) Hull, Terence; Forbes, DeanThe end of the Vietnam War in 1975 sparked Western interest in aiding in the reconstruction of Vietnam, but this came to an abrupt halt in the late 1970s when Vietnamese troops moved into Cambodia. Following the government's renewed commitment to economic reform (doi moi) in 1986, and the withdrawal of its troops from Cambodia during 1989, Vietnam is once again opening up to the Western world. However, information on social and economic conditions in contemporary Vietnam is scarce. With a total population of 64.4 million on the 1st of April 1989, Vietnam is the second largest country in Southeast Asia. Two complementary papers commenting on recent demographic and social change in Vietnam are included in this Briefing Paper. They draw on the first results of the Five Percent Sample from the 1989 Population Census, released in March this year, to profile key aspects of recent social change. Terry Hull summarises the principal trends infertility, marriage and mortality, while Dean Forbes looks at the pattern of urbanisation and urban growth, and the emerging spatial structure of the country.Item Open Access The greening of development theory: good news or bad news for the poor in the Third World?(Australian Development Studies Centre, The Australian National University) Burgess, MichaelThe present concern for the environment presents an important opportunity with which to pressurise governments and international organisations into making a greater effort to alleviate poverty in the developing world. However, the poor analysis of many environmentalists could actually result in them supporting policies that discriminate against the poor. This paper is concerned with the way in which such poor analysis could reinforce a number of questionable ideas held by others in the development field, such as the belief that a major cause of poverty and environmental destruction in the Third World is an increase in cash cropping. The paper also critically examines the often superficial analysis made by critics of the IMF and World Bank.Item Open Access Genital mutilation: a health and human rights issue(Australian Development Studies Centre, The Australian National University) Magarey, Kirsty; Evatt, ElizabethThe practice of female genital cutting and mutilation is continuing to wreak havok on the health of women in countries all over the world. It is estimated that in Africa alone, 75 million women have been genitally mutilated in some manner. The Inter-African Committee on traditional practices affecting the Health of Women and Children (the lAC) is campaigning to eradicate these practices and the campaign is gathering momentum. In 1989, the report of the UN Committee on the Elimination of Discrimination Against Women included a call for information campaigns to promote eradication of the practice of female circumcision. A lack of cultural sensitivity on the part of some Western individuals and organisations has been a contributing factor to the difficulties faced by the lAC. While the history of Western involvements in the area has not always been productive, there are now opportunities for Western individuals and organisations to support African women who are campaigning against the practice.Item Open Access Arms for the poor: trading in death(Australian Development Studies Centre, The Australian National University) Jones, Peter D.The World Bank has recently begun to point out the cost to Third World development programs of a continuing high level of military expenditure and global arms transfers. While countries like Australia continue to publicly deplore this imbalance, they make a farce of such criticism by seeking to expand their own arms exports in order to pay for their own costs of military production. Another recent alarming tendency has been for a number of developing countries -particularly in South and East Asia - to start exporting weapons themselves in order to pay for their own expensive imports. This paper traces the contrast between military expenditure and expenditure on education and health in a number of countries in South and East Asia, where Australia is actively promoting a regional arms race by seeking to double its own military exports.Item Open Access The Straw that Breaks the Camel's Back: effects of the Gulf war on the developing world's poor(Australian Development Studies Centre, The Australian National University) Graham, RichardItem Open Access The Kurdish calamity(Australian Development Studies Centre, The Australian National University) Grover, RobynItem Open Access New World Order or recipe for disorder?(Australian Development Studies Centre, The Australian National University) Barrett, GregItem Open Access The mean country: whither Australia's overseas aid program?(Australian Development Studies Centre, The Australian National University) Australian National University. National Centre for Development StudiesItem Open Access The crisis of the NICs: fundamental, not transitional(Australian Development Studies Centre, The Australian National University) Bello, Walden; Broad, Robin"In sum, it is undeniable that the NIC strategy of export-oriented growth delivered high-speed growth over the last 25 years. However, a lethal conjunction of international and internal developments is leading to the unravelling of the NIC model, leaving ailing tigers stranded on the perilous zone between the developed and underdeveloped worlds. It will take a new, bold set of economic policies to keep them from sliding back to the Third World in the 1990's ..." - pages 3-4Item Open Access Sustainable development: environmental limits and the limits of economics(Australian Development Studies Centre, The Australian National University) Hundloe, TorItem Open Access Dimensions of population and development(Australian Development Studies Centre, The Australian National University) Hull, Valerie J; Hull, TerenceItem Open Access What does it take to be an effective educational adviser in Indonesia and Thailand?(Australian Development Studies Centre, The Australian National University) Cannon, Robert A.Structured group interviews with Thai and Indonesian educators indicate that expatriate advisers require a wide range of personal and professional qualities to be effective: they must have expertise, be able to establish and maintain good relationships with people, be well organised and effective teachers, and transfer information and skills that are applicable and of benefit to the nation. None of these qualities is simple or uni-dimensional. They [The?]study shows, for example, that 'expertise' has several elements including technical expertise, cultural knowledge, language ability and expertise in education. More recent research with Indonesian medical educators indicates that different professional groups may have quite different expectations of advisers from other groups in the same country. Practical implications of the findings are in overseas project design, management and placement of personnel, professional development of experts, and in the design, implementation and evaluation of teaching and training.Item Open Access A new world order - For whom?(Australian Development Studies Centre, The Australian National University) Ekins, Paul
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