Abstract
This week marks the 50th anniversary conference of the Australian Council for International Development (ACFID), the celebrations of which will no doubt be a central feature of the ACFID conference this week in Sydney. It is also around 50 years since the first development decade, which attempted to move the international aid and development system out of the Cold War focus of the 1950s to a more international approach, with the UN being more involved. As I mentioned in an earlier post on this blog, the 1960s was a period when the institutions for aid and development were established: the OECD-DAC; the World Bank concessional lending arm, IDA; and official aid agencies such as DFID and CIDA.
| Original language | English |
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| Pages | 1-6pp |
| No. | Online |
| Specialist publication | Devpolicy Blog |
| Publication status | Published - 2015 |