EDITORIAL

EDITORIAL This Conference Issue of the Journal of International Development is prepared according to a new format, which presents edited versions of the three plenary addresses to the 1996 DSA Conference side by side with selected symposia on issues of current concern, several of which related to the plenary themes. These were aid, transition and the work of scientists in development. On aid, Sir William Ryrie, former ODA permanent secretary and managing director of the World Bank’s International Finance Corporation, defends his view that aid should predominantly be directed towards the private sector; on transition, we have the privilege of a paper by Alan Gelb, the coordinator of the 1996 World Development Report, which summarizes the main lessons learnt from this report; the scientiﬁc theme is represented by Dennis Greenland, FRS, who critically addresses the role of the CG research institutions in world development. The symposia which relate to the plenary themes are on Rethinking Overseas Aid (Killick, White and Morrissey and Hopkins et al.), which focuses critically on the role of conditionality in general, and the World Bank’s conditionality in particular, in improving the quality of aid, and Agricultural Research and Development (Anderson and Pray, Lusigi and Thirtle, and Reece) which develops Greenland’s theme of the eciency of international research institutes. The transitional theme is picked up through the symposium on Central Asia (Ellner, Tucker and Kalyuzhnova, and Spoor), which we have deliberately highlighted as an under-researched area. The other symposia featured in the Conference Issue are on NGOs in Development (Hudock, Howes, James and Davies) and Health Sector Reform (McPake and Machray, Atkinson, and Kumanarayake). We are also including two stand-alone papers on Environment and Development, by Auty, and Poverty Reduction Strategies in Africa by McKay, which were originally presented as part of Conference symposia. We visualize that the symposium format will be applied in future conference issues of the Journal, so that papers thus published become more similar to the Journal’s Policy Arenas. Indeed we may in future publish free-standing Policy Arenas within the Conference Issue. PAUL MOSLEY Editor CCC 0954–1748/97/040435–01$17.50 # 1997 by John Wiley & Sons, Ltd. Journal of International Development: Vol. 9, No. 4, 435 (1997)

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EDITORIAL

This Conference Issue of the Journal of International Development is preparedaccording to a new format, which presents edited versions of the three plenaryaddresses to the 1996 DSAConference side by side with selected symposia on issues ofcurrent concern, several of which related to the plenary themes. These were aid,transition and the work of scientists in development. On aid, Sir William Ryrie,former ODA permanent secretary and managing director of the World Bank'sInternational Finance Corporation, defends his view that aid should predominantlybe directed towards the private sector; on transition, we have the privilege of a paperby Alan Gelb, the coordinator of the 1996 World Development Report, whichsummarizes the main lessons learnt from this report; the scienti®c theme isrepresented by Dennis Greenland, FRS, who critically addresses the role of the CGresearch institutions in world development.

The symposia which relate to the plenary themes are on Rethinking Overseas Aid(Killick, White and Morrissey and Hopkins et al.), which focuses critically on the roleof conditionality in general, and the World Bank's conditionality in particular, inimproving the quality of aid, and Agricultural Research and Development (Andersonand Pray, Lusigi and Thirtle, and Reece) which develops Greenland's theme of thee�ciency of international research institutes. The transitional theme is picked upthrough the symposium on Central Asia (Ellner, Tucker and Kalyuzhnova, andSpoor), which we have deliberately highlighted as an under-researched area.

The other symposia featured in the Conference Issue are on NGOs in Development(Hudock, Howes, James and Davies) and Health Sector Reform (McPake andMachray, Atkinson, and Kumanarayake). We are also including two stand-alonepapers on Environment and Development, by Auty, and Poverty Reduction Strategiesin Africa by McKay, which were originally presented as part of Conference symposia.We visualize that the symposium format will be applied in future conference issues ofthe Journal, so that papers thus published become more similar to the Journal'sPolicy Arenas. Indeed we may in future publish free-standing Policy Arenas within theConference Issue.

PAUL MOSLEYEditor

CCC 0954±1748/97/040435±01$17.50# 1997 by John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.

Journal of International Development: Vol. 9, No. 4, 435 (1997)