2013 Harold Mitchell Development Policy Annual Lecture: The Challenges of Aid Dependency and Economic Reform - Africa and the Pacific

2013 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jim Adams
Keyword(s):  
Economic Reform ◽  
Development Policy ◽  
Annual Lecture ◽  
The Pacific ◽  
Aid Dependency

scholarly journals Reversing the Tide of Aid: Investigating Development Policy Sovereignty in the Pacific

2012 ◽  
Author(s):  
John Overton ◽  
Gerard Prinsen ◽  
Warwick E. Murray ◽  
Nicki Wrighton
Keyword(s):  
Development Policy ◽  
The Pacific

scholarly journals Introduction

Ramus ◽  
1994 ◽  
Vol 23 (1-2) ◽  
pp. 1-5
Author(s):  
A. J. Boyle
Keyword(s):  
Public Engagement ◽  
Pacific Rim ◽  
Annual Lecture ◽  
Men And Women ◽  
The Third ◽  
Roman Literature ◽  
The Pacific ◽  
The Subject ◽  
Work And Life

Martial offers not only an anatomy of Roman sexuality but an ideology of it.J. P. Sullivan, Martial: The Unexpected ClassicWhat persuades men and women to mistake each other from time to time for gods or vermin is ideology.T. Eagleton, Ideology: An IntroductionJohn Sullivan's last public engagement was to deliver a paper at the third USC-UCLA Seminar in Roman Studies on St. Patrick's day 1993. The subject of the seminar was ‘Literature and Ideology’, and featured Tom Habinek (USC), Carole Newlands (UCLA), myself as moderator, and John himself, who was to speak on ‘Martial and Flavian Ideology’. John's deteriorating condition prevented him from attending the seminar and a timely replacement was found in the person of a fellow ‘Patrician’, Patrick Sinclair of UC Irvine. The seminar was crowded with John's southern Californian friends and colleagues, and the three and a half hours of lively, rigorous, intellectually tough but friendly discourse were very much in the spirit of the missing speaker, whose absence was incontrovertibly the defining presence. I approached the speakers later with the idea of a Festschrift for John, built upon the theme of the seminar and containing revised versions of their own papers. They warmly agreed. Such is the germination of this volume. To those initial three papers have been added two papers (those of Malamud and Winkler) from the Pacific Rim Roman Literature seminar organised by Frederick Ahl in honour of John at Cornell in August 1993, five specially commissioned pieces from other friends and literary colleagues, and the text of the first J.P. Sullivan Annual Lecture in Classics held at UCSB in March 1994. The aim has been to treat a topic which was becoming central to John Sullivan's own inquiries and to produce a volume with more intellectual and critical cohesion than is often the case with honorific collections. I wanted the result to be as worthy as is possible of the man and the values he embodied in work and life.

Gender Equality – A Feel Good Norm?: Divergence between Rhetoric and Practice in the EU's Development Policy towards the Pacific Islands

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
◽  
Katia Schnellecke
Keyword(s):  
Gender Equality ◽  
Development Policy ◽  
Pacific Islands ◽  
Good Governance ◽  
Development Cooperation ◽  
Equal Treatment ◽  
Development Projects ◽  
Pacific Region ◽  
The Pacific ◽  
The Eu

<p>As one of the world’s largest donors, the European Union provides development assistance to the Pacific Island Countries. At the same time, the EU actively promotes its own values and principles toward the Island Countries as part of the development cooperation with the region. In taking on the role of a norm promoter, the EU promotes its core values in the Pacific region such as democracy, good governance, the rule of law, and also gender equality. The Union is committed the promotion of equal treatment and equal opportunities for women and men. The norm is emphasised and promoted in all development strategies for the Pacific region and in the agreements with the Island countries. But how committed is the EU to gender equality when it comes to the active promotion of the norm in the development projects for the Pacific Islands?  This thesis investigates the divergence between the EU’s rhetoric and practice when it comes to the promotion of gender equality in its development policy towards the Pacific region. An analysis of the Union’s rhetoric promotion of gender equality and practical support of the norm in the development projects for the Pacific region provides clear evidence for a gap between the EU’s intentions and reality. Whereas the norm is actively promoted throughout the EU’s strategies and agreements with the Pacific region, gender equality is neglected in the plans for most of the development projects.  This thesis argues that the successful promotion of gender equality is hindered by internal and external barriers as well as the EU’s fragmented composition into different units and actors, that pursue a policies based on norms as well as for interest-related reasons. The identified divergence between the EU’s intentions and reality has a crucial impact on its role as a norm promoter: it undermines its power as a normative actor and its legitimacy to shape the concept of normal.</p>

Gender Equality – A Feel Good Norm?: Divergence between Rhetoric and Practice in the EU's Development Policy towards the Pacific Islands

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
◽  
Katia Schnellecke
Keyword(s):  
Gender Equality ◽  
Development Policy ◽  
Pacific Islands ◽  
Good Governance ◽  
Development Cooperation ◽  
Equal Treatment ◽  
Development Projects ◽  
Pacific Region ◽  
The Pacific ◽  
The Eu

<p>As one of the world’s largest donors, the European Union provides development assistance to the Pacific Island Countries. At the same time, the EU actively promotes its own values and principles toward the Island Countries as part of the development cooperation with the region. In taking on the role of a norm promoter, the EU promotes its core values in the Pacific region such as democracy, good governance, the rule of law, and also gender equality. The Union is committed the promotion of equal treatment and equal opportunities for women and men. The norm is emphasised and promoted in all development strategies for the Pacific region and in the agreements with the Island countries. But how committed is the EU to gender equality when it comes to the active promotion of the norm in the development projects for the Pacific Islands?  This thesis investigates the divergence between the EU’s rhetoric and practice when it comes to the promotion of gender equality in its development policy towards the Pacific region. An analysis of the Union’s rhetoric promotion of gender equality and practical support of the norm in the development projects for the Pacific region provides clear evidence for a gap between the EU’s intentions and reality. Whereas the norm is actively promoted throughout the EU’s strategies and agreements with the Pacific region, gender equality is neglected in the plans for most of the development projects.  This thesis argues that the successful promotion of gender equality is hindered by internal and external barriers as well as the EU’s fragmented composition into different units and actors, that pursue a policies based on norms as well as for interest-related reasons. The identified divergence between the EU’s intentions and reality has a crucial impact on its role as a norm promoter: it undermines its power as a normative actor and its legitimacy to shape the concept of normal.</p>

scholarly journals The Pacific Reset: A Retroliberal Analysis

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
◽  
Thomas McDowall
Keyword(s):  
New Zealand ◽  
Critical Discourse Analysis ◽  
Development Policy ◽  
Path Dependence ◽  
Critical Discourse ◽  
International Trends ◽  
The Pacific ◽  
Development Discourses ◽  
The Impact ◽  
Recent Policy

<p>The interaction and relationships between stakeholders, international trends, history and politics, inform the shape and sequencing of development policy. The Pacific Reset policy initiative of the Sixth Labour Government is an example of how such interactions not only impact, but contribute to understandings on development policy. Despite being a recent policy announcement, the Pacific Reset was understood as being informed by the factors listed above and is a geopolitically motivated statement of capability in the region.   The last decade of development thinking has shifted towards a model of economic growth, defined by ‘shared prosperity’ and development tied to national interest. Marking a distinct aid regime, retroliberalism offers the theoretical rigour to this research. In analysing the understandings of the Pacific Reset through such a lens, the Pacific Reset loosely aligns with the tenets of retroliberalism. Although it was found that rhetoric surrounding the Pacific Reset marks New Zealand’s divergence from typical retroliberal, and current global development discourses.  Using critical discourse analysis of rhetoric surrounding the announcement, and early stages of the Pacific Reset, together with a thematic analysis of eight interviews, this thesis examines the understandings of the Pacific Reset as communicated by members of the New Zealand development community. It assesses the factors involved in the policy’s formation, and its impact on Pacific-focused development activities, before discussing the extent retroliberalism can interpret the Pacific Reset.   This research found the Pacific Reset to be an amalgam of policies, modalities, and structures of earlier New Zealand development policy. Historical patterns of development assistance, personalities and style of engagement, and path dependence in policy were found to impact the Pacific Reset. Participants understood the policy as merely a shift in rhetoric and a geopolitical statement of renewed engagement in the Pacific. This thesis collates these responses to analyse the understandings on, and the impact of the Pacific Reset on New Zealand development activities, and to offer an empirical base for further research on the policy.</p>

scholarly journals RETHINKING OF THE RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN AGRICULTURE AND THE “URBAN” ECONOMY IN BEIJING: AN INPUT-OUTPUT APPROACH

2014 ◽  
Vol 20 (4) ◽  
pp. 624-647 ◽  
Author(s):  
Zhenshan Yang ◽  
Jianming Cai ◽  
Michael Dunford ◽  
Douglas Webster
Keyword(s):  
Economic Reform ◽  
Urban Growth ◽  
Development Policy ◽  
Policy Design ◽  
Urban Economy ◽  
Strong Relationship ◽  
Input Output ◽  
Economic Relationships ◽  
The Third ◽  
The Relationship

Despite the irresistible drive of urban growth, the questions as to whether and how agriculture is restructured and repositioned in relation to urban development have received little attention. Based on the method of hypothetical extraction from input-output tables, and on the Beijing case, this paper puts forward an approach to assess the dependence of the agro-economy on urban sectors. The research shows that in Beijing in the period from 1982 to 2007 the relationship between agriculture and the urban economy has gone through three phases. At the start of the economic reform, the relationship was weak, characterised by intensive inputs of agricultural productive materials and policy orders. What followed was a phase of disconnection characterised by fast urban growth and low competitive status of agriculture. The third was a period of increasingly integrated development with technological inputs and upgrading of the management of agriculture. The current strong relationship indicates that agriculture can be tuned to meet the preferences of urban consumers. Key associated urban sectors are screened out to verify this relationship. The approach is valuable for quantifying the structural relationship between agriculture and urban sectors, for further analysing rural-urban economic relationships to support development policy design and programming.

scholarly journals The Pacific Reset: A Retroliberal Analysis

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
◽  
Thomas McDowall
Keyword(s):  
New Zealand ◽  
Critical Discourse Analysis ◽  
Development Policy ◽  
Path Dependence ◽  
Critical Discourse ◽  
International Trends ◽  
The Pacific ◽  
Development Discourses ◽  
The Impact ◽  
Recent Policy

<p>The interaction and relationships between stakeholders, international trends, history and politics, inform the shape and sequencing of development policy. The Pacific Reset policy initiative of the Sixth Labour Government is an example of how such interactions not only impact, but contribute to understandings on development policy. Despite being a recent policy announcement, the Pacific Reset was understood as being informed by the factors listed above and is a geopolitically motivated statement of capability in the region.   The last decade of development thinking has shifted towards a model of economic growth, defined by ‘shared prosperity’ and development tied to national interest. Marking a distinct aid regime, retroliberalism offers the theoretical rigour to this research. In analysing the understandings of the Pacific Reset through such a lens, the Pacific Reset loosely aligns with the tenets of retroliberalism. Although it was found that rhetoric surrounding the Pacific Reset marks New Zealand’s divergence from typical retroliberal, and current global development discourses.  Using critical discourse analysis of rhetoric surrounding the announcement, and early stages of the Pacific Reset, together with a thematic analysis of eight interviews, this thesis examines the understandings of the Pacific Reset as communicated by members of the New Zealand development community. It assesses the factors involved in the policy’s formation, and its impact on Pacific-focused development activities, before discussing the extent retroliberalism can interpret the Pacific Reset.   This research found the Pacific Reset to be an amalgam of policies, modalities, and structures of earlier New Zealand development policy. Historical patterns of development assistance, personalities and style of engagement, and path dependence in policy were found to impact the Pacific Reset. Participants understood the policy as merely a shift in rhetoric and a geopolitical statement of renewed engagement in the Pacific. This thesis collates these responses to analyse the understandings on, and the impact of the Pacific Reset on New Zealand development activities, and to offer an empirical base for further research on the policy.</p>

scholarly journals Pacific Investigative Journalism Award: What the judges said

1996 ◽  
Vol 3 (2) ◽  
pp. 156-158
Author(s):  
Wendy Bacon ◽  
Peter Cronau ◽  
David McKnight
Keyword(s):  
Economic Reform ◽  
News Media ◽  
South Pacific ◽  
High Standard ◽  
The South ◽  
Investigative Journalism ◽  
Investigative Reporting ◽  
The Public ◽  
The Pacific ◽  
New Perspective

Investigative journalism is alive and well in the Pacific news media. The quality and breadth of reporting taking place in the South Pacific region is reflected in the high standard of stories entered in the first Pacific Investigative Journalism Award. Pressures for economic reform, development and democratisation are creating societies in change, providing a feast of potential issues needing in-depth reporting to the public. Stories that reinforce the public's right to be informed; stories that investigate hard-to-get facts and give the public a new perspective on events and issues; stories that carry a wealth of detail about how the society works are the stories that uphold the finest traditions of investigative journalism. Sponsored by the South Pacific Centre for Communication and Information in Development (SPCenCIID), the inaugural Pacific Investigative Journalism Award has been established to promote higher standards in investigative reporting and to foster good relationships between journalists.

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