Day: 10 February 2006

#Human Development #Papers and Other Articles #Papua New Guinea #Political Economy of Australia #Political Economy of the Pacific Islands #Timor Leste

The Howard Government, Australian aid and the consequences (2006)

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In 1997 the Howard Government gave Australia’s foreign aid program a ‘poverty reduction’ focus with a ‘national interest’ link, later developing ‘good governance’ as the principal program theme. This anticipated the IMF and World Bank’s 1999 abandoning of ‘structural adjustment’ […]