Papua New Guinea at thirty: Late decolonisation and the political economy of nation-building

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Nation-building in Papua New Guinea (PNG) has been problematic from the outset, with a linguistically diverse population and no significant nationalist sentiment or structures on which to build. Slowing growth, increased unemployment, rising crime rates and the apparent inability of the PNG state to reverse these trends led Canberra to force the PNG government to accept an 'Enhanced Cooperation Program' to shore up the PNG state and reverse its predicted demise.

Papua New Guinea, Economic aspects, Papua New Guinean foreign relations, Decolonization

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Development and the 'new' imperialism: A reinvention of colonial discourse in DFID promotional literature

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The implications of the shift within developmental discourse of authority, with an eye to its linkages to the other two spheres of security and the new imperialism and social policy as social exclusion is highlighted. Looking at the promotional literature of the /Department for International Development (DFID), it is argued that the new development agenda is reinforced by efforts to produce the appropriate subjectivities domestically for the new imperialism.

Health, Educatn & Welfare Programs, Administration of Human Resource Programs, Social policy, Imperialism

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Defining morality: DFID and the Great Lakes

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A study that examines the work of the UK government's Department for International Development (DFID) in the Great Lakes region of central Africa is discussed. It traces the formulation of policy and compares it with DFID's operations in Rwanda and the Democratic Republic of Congo from 1997 to 2001 and concludes that its new humanitarianism offers little new, and the spoken poverty agenda is misleading.

United Kingdom, Government expenditures, Economic policy, Powers and duties, United Kingdom. Department for International Development

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