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Abstract: "Accounting
for Development: Australia and the Asian Development Bank in the Mekong
Region" Complete Paper Unavailable Online
This paper is the third in the AMRC (Australian Mekong Resource Centre)
Working Papers series. It is based on the proceedings of the conference,
“Accounting for Development: Australia and the Asian Development
Bank in the Mekong Region”. The Conference was held at Sydney University
on 23-24 June 2000 and involved 220 participants, including some 40 from
the Mekong Region. Co-hosted by AMRC and Community Aid Abroad with assistance
from ACFOA (Australian Council for Overseas Aid) and Aid/Watch, the conference
involved a diverse set of presentations, discussion and debate on key
aspects of the ADB’s work in the Mekong region and the role that
Australia should play in shaping and monitoring such work. At a wider
level, the conference dealt with key issues of development, poverty and
environmental sustainability as understood by different actors on the
regional development stage. The aim of this paper is to reflect the discussion
and debate at the conference and to provide an overview of key concerns
raised. The paper is one person’s interpretation, and doubtless each
of the 220 conference participants could provide a somewhat different
account. Helen Gunning-Stevenson attended the Conference as an AMRC staff
member, but opinions expressed in the paper (other than those credited
to presenters/contributors to the conference) are those of the author.
It is hoped that the paper will contribute to the broader debate on the
role of multinational funding agencies in the development of NDCs (Newly
Developed Countries) and LDCs (Lesser Developed Countries).
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