European Union Development Policy

208 Pages·1998·19.719 MB·English

by  Marjorie Lister (eds.)

EUROPEAN UNION DEVELOPMENT POLICY
Also by Marjorie Lister
THE EUROPEAN COMMUNITY AND THE DEVELOPING WORLD
THE EUROPEAN UNION AND THE SOUTH
European Union
Development Policy
Edited by
Marjorie Lister
Lecturer in European-Developing Country Relations
Department ofE uropean Studies
University of Bradford
Frrst published in Great Britain 1998 by
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European Union development policy I edited by Marjorie Lister.
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"Based on the 'Europe and the Developing Countries Conference'
held ... in London in late 1996."
Includes bibliographical references and index.
ISBN 978-0-312-21538-5
1. Economic assistance, European-Congresses. 2. Developing
countries-Economic conditions-Congresses. 3. European Union
countries-Foreign economic relations-Developing countries
-Congresses. 4. Developing countries-Foreign economic relations-
-European Union countries-Congresses. I. Lister, Marjorie, 1955-
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Contents
Acknowledgements vii
List ofA bbreviations viii
Notes on the Contributors ix
Introduction xi
1 The UK's View of the Future of European
Development Cooperation 1
Baroness Chalker ofWallasey
2 Fair Trade Needs Fair Access to Court 5
Michael Hindley
3 The Lome Convention, Human Rights and Europe 8
Lord Plumb DL, MEP
4 An Overview of EU Development Policy 12
Friedrich Hamburger
5 Europe's New Development Policy 17
Marjorie Lister
6 The African, Caribbean and Pacific Group of States'
Experience of Partnership with the European Union 39
Carl B. Greenidge
7 Bureaucratic Interests and European Aid
to Sub-Saharan Africa 64
Gorm Rye Olsen
8 Does European Aid Work? An Ethiopian Case Study 97
Simon Maxwell
9 Reform in the British and European Community Aid
Programmes: Implications for the Pacific Countries 118
Adrian Hewitt
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10 Human Rights and Democracy in EU Development
Co-operation: Towards Fair and Equal Treatment 131
Gordon Crawford
Index 179
Acknowledgements
The editor wishes to thank Ms Margaret Haldane, Postgraduate Secret
ary of the Department of European Studies, and Mrs Grace Hudson, of
the J B Priestley Library, Bradford University, for their help in the prepara
tion of this book.
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List of Abbreviations
ACP African, Caribbean and Pacific States
APEC Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation (group of states)
CAP Common Agricultural Policy
DOM/TOM France's overseas departments and overseas territories
DAC Development Assistance Committee
DOM/TOM Departement d'outre mer; Territoire d'outre mer
EDF European Development Fund
EU European Union
FCO Foreign and Commonwealth Office (UK)
FTA Free Trade Area
IBRD International Bank for Reconstruction and Development
(World Bank)
ICO International Coffee Organisation
LDC Less developed country
LLDC Least developed country
NGO Non-governmental organisation
NIP National Indicative Programme
ODA Official Development Assistance; also Overseas
Development Administration (UK)
OECD Organisation for Economic Cooperation and Development
PMDT Processing, marketing, distribution and transport
UNDP United Nations Development Programme
PNG Papua New Guinea
SACU Southern Mrican Customs Union
SADC Southern Mrican Development Community
WTO World Trade Organisation
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Notes on the Contributors
Lynda Chalker (Baroness Chalker of Wallasey) was a member of the
UK Parliament from 1974 to 1992. Lady Chalker was a government min
ister for 18 years, becoming Minister for Overseas Development in 1989.
She was created a Life Peer in 1992. Following her retirement from gov
ernment in 1997, Baroness Chalker has been working as an independent
consultant on projects in central and southern Africa.
Gordon Crawford is Lecturer in Development Studies, Centre for
Development Studies, School of International, Development and Euro
pean Studies in the University of Leeds. His interests are in the politics
and sociology of development, particularly the realisation of human
rights, North and South. Mr Crawford's recent research has focused on
political conditionality and the promotion of human rights and democracy
through development assistance.
Carl B. Greenidge, a well-known Caribbean personality and currently
Deputy Secretary-General of the Mrican, Caribbean and Pacific Group
of States, has worked as a professional economist in Europe, Africa and
the Caribbean. As Guyana's Minister of Finance from 1983 to 1992, he
was President of the ACP-EU Council of Ministers when the Lome IV
negotiations opened. Previously Mr Greenidge was ACP Ministerial
Spokesman on Sugar as well as ACP Negotiator on Trade (Lome III).
Friedrich Hamburger was born in Vienna, Austria, and studied law and
political science. He worked for 25 years in the Austrian Foreign Service,
attaining the rank of Ambassador as the Chief of the Cabinet of the Aus
trian Vice-Chancellor. Since November 1995 Dr Hamburger has been
Director for Development Policy in the European Commission.
Adrian Hewitt is Deputy Director of the Overseas Development Insti
tute (ODI), manages the ODI fellowship scheme and is the Research
Adviser to the All-Party Parliamentary Group on Overseas Develop
ment in the UK Parliament. His current research work covers the trade
and aid policies of the European Union. Mr Hewitt is a co-editor of the
Development Policy Review and an editorial board member of Third
World Quarterly.
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