1993: Volume 24
Volume 24 Number 1 January 1993
Edited by: Mick Moore
It is little more than three years since the Berlin Wall began to crumble. In that time, the political context and content of development aid to the Third World has changed rather dramatically. 'Political conditionality' the tying of official aid disbursements to the quality of government (or 'governance') that recipients provide has become the norm. The idea of relating foreign aid to the type or quality of government has a long history. However, it has been applied only sporadically and inconsistently; and, in practice, it was often a matter of supporting one's actual or potential allies in the Cold War context.
1992: Volume 23
Volume 23 Number 4 October 1992
Edited by: Robin Murray
One of the least contentious issues in post war development thinking was the form of public administration. There were disputes about the boundaries between public and private, but not about how the public sector should be run. Most newly independent states adopted a model based closely on metropolitan and colonial forms of administration, or, in the case of socialist countries, on the Soviet system. What is striking are the similarities between capitalist and socialist forms of administration, and the common influences which shaped them - earlier absolutist regimes on the one hand, and modern business organization on the other.
Volume 23 Number 3 July 1992
Edited by: Jesper Rasmussen, Hubert Schmitz and Meine Pieter van Dijk
This Bulletin is a product of the working group 'Industrialisation Strategies' of the European Association of Development Institutes (EADI). At the general EADI conference in Oslo, June 1990, members of the working group expressed interest in exploring the relevance of flexible specialisation for Third World industry, especially small-scale industry. A workshop on this issue was convened in Copenhagen, June 1991, attracting 20 participants from all over Europe. This Bulletin presents an edited version of some of the contributions to this workshop. A common objective of all contributors is to explore how the insights of the flexible specialisation approach can be used to inform research and policy making in industrial development of less developed countries
Volume 23 Number 2 May 1992
Edited by: Simon Maxwell
The theory and practice of counterpart funds sounds like a dry and technical subject. It is. But new readers should not despair. As the authoritative articles in this issue of the Bulletin amply demonstrate, the topic of counterpart funds repays further study. Counterpart funds themselves play an important, growing and often controversial role in developing countries. More to the point, the topic is replete with linkages to broader issues in development: poverty targeting, aid conditionality, the management of the budgetary process - and many others.
Volume 23 Number 1 January 1992
Edited by: Naila Kabeer and Alanagh Raikes
While health has always been seen as an integral aspect of development planning, the significance attached to it has varied according to the debates about development in the wider sense. Currently, there is a tension between those who treat health provision as the welfare arm of structural adjustment policy, those who treat it as a form of human resource investment - and hence critical to the process of economic recovery - and those who see it an end in itself, an essential component of human welfare.
