The new UK White Paper on International Development: an NGO perspective

Alan Whaites
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Alan Whaites: World Vision, Milton Keynes, UK, Postal: World Vision, Milton Keynes, UK

Journal of International Development, 1998, vol. 10, issue 2, 203-213

Abstract: NGOs have, by and large, given a warm welcome to the new UK White Paper on International Development. But, after 20 years of political marginalization, is the development community too easily satisfied? This article argues that the White Paper does mark a welcome break from the previous Conservative approach with a number of commendable policy ideas. The document overall, however, still contains important flaws, particularly in areas where the Treasury will have inevitably played a critical role. If DFID and the new Secretary of State can take credit for the best of the White Paper's contents then her Cabinet colleagues are the obvious culprits for the worst. This article argues that NGOs can play a constructive role by recognizing the weaknesses of the Paper and undertaking to help in building the public constituency for further, and more fundamental, change. © 1998 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.

Date: 1998
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DOI: 10.1002/(SICI)1099-1328(199803/04)10:2<203::AID-JID519>3.0.CO;2-3

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