Australian Overseas Aid

Philip Eldridge, Dean Forbes, Doug Porter

Introduction Part 1: General Issues in Aid Policy 1. Philosophy and Strategy of the Jackson Report: Towards An Alternative Perspective 2. Some International Economics Dimensions of the Jackson Report: A Critical Assessment and a Vote for Selective Support 3. Structural Adjustment and the Jackson Report: The Nexus Between Development Theory and Australian Foreign Policy Part 2: Geographical Distribution of Aid 4. Small States, Large Aid: The Benefits of Benevolence in the South Pacific 5. Ideology, Aid and the Pacific Microstates 6. Australia’s Official Bilateral Aid to Asia 7. Australian Aid to Africa Part 3: Issues in an Aid Program 8. Australian Education Aid – Who Benefits? 9. The Jackson Committee and Women 10. Trade and Development 11. The Jackson Report and Agricultural Aid Part 4: Organisation and Practice of Aid 12. ADAB and Aid Administration 13. The Non-Governmental Organisations 14. Development Cooperation and Community Groups in Food and Agriculture 15. Professionalism and Technical Sophistication in Australia’s Aid Program