Journal article
Good governance and security: The limits of Australia's new aid programme
Journal of Contemporary Asia, Vol.37(4), pp.410-430
11/2007
Abstract
This article analyses the Australian Agency for International Development's (AusAID) approach to overseas development assistance (ODA) through an examination of AusAID's recent White Paper. The White Paper focuses on the nexus between poverty reduction and security in the Asia-Pacific region. We argue that the Paper's emphasis upon good governance as the key to poverty reduction and security is fundamentally flawed. This stems from the particular ideological and political conditions in which the Paper materialised. In focusing on good governance and security the Paper neglects more fundamental poverty reduction issues, while promoting policies that are difficult to implement and, when implemented, have highly problematic outcomes. This article examines the Australian-led intervention in Solomon Islands and the Australian aid programme in Indonesia as examples for the shortcomings of the approach articulated in the White Paper. We conclude by examining alternative development policies that move beyond the neo-liberal orthodoxy endorsed by AusAID.
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- Title
- Good governance and security: The limits of Australia's new aid programme
- Authors/Creators
- T.J. Carroll (Author/Creator) - Murdoch UniversityS. Hameiri (Author/Creator) - Murdoch University
- Publication Details
- Journal of Contemporary Asia, Vol.37(4), pp.410-430
- Publisher
- Taylor & Francis
- Identifiers
- 991005540003707891
- Copyright
- © 2007 Journal of Contemporary Asia
- Murdoch Affiliation
- Asia Research Centre
- Language
- English
- Resource Type
- Journal article
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- 6 Social Sciences
- 6.27 Political Science
- 6.27.1609 Foreign Aid Dynamics
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- Social Sciences, general