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No. 84 October-December 2005
Aid and developmentFrom poverty to social justiceAid works best when it seeks to confront social injustice - Bob Muntz IMF aid – helping the poor? Economists propose an alternative strategy to the prevailing neo-liberal ideology for reducing poverty - Sugeng Bahagijo Aid with strings attached Foreign policy not poverty reduction drives the Australian aid program - Tim O’Connor AcehAceh after the tsunamiAn Australian aid worker recounts the challenge of rehabilitating a devastated society - Cornelia Lenneberg Reconstruction meets resistance NGOs and local people work together to rebuild communities, until feudalism intervenes - Leo Simanjuntak PapuaWhere it hurts in PapuaAn Indonesian NGO finds injustices in unexpected places - Desti Murdijana Aid workers speakThe activists’ dilemmaMany are ambivalent about international aid - Hetifah Sjaifudian A free lunch? Much aid comes with strings attached — crippling loan repayments, exploitation of resources and vulnerability to unfriendly international markets - Hira Jhamtani Partnership or pretence Who should call the shots — international donors or local NGOs? - Bob Muntz History revisitedKampung KamalHalf a century after Herb Feith first lived in Kamal, Nikolas Feith Tan retraces his grandfather’s steps - Nikolas Feith Tan Forty years on With Suharto gone, the anniversary of the 1965 coup attempt is more controversial than ever - Kate McGregor PoliticsA new agenda for democracyIs democracy stalled? An in-depth survey suggests hope for the future - Olle Tornquist Women in IslamA shared visionPortraits of Islamic women from different centuries and different organisations - Eka Srimulyani and Siti Syamsiyatun Business cultureLecture me notHelping to boost English teaching seemed a splendid idea, but then Indonesian realities intervened - Duncan Graham HIV/AIDSThe looming AIDS epidemicIntravenous drug use is exacerbating the spread of the HIV virus - Sudirman Nasir RegularsEditorialYour say Newsbriefs Reviews Private foundations on the net The final word |
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