Australian Foreign Aid
Follow the money: how foreign aid spending tells of Pacific priorities
The Pacific, when measured by aid inflows as a proportion of GDP, is the most aid-dependent region in the world. Geographic remoteness, exposure to frequent natural disasters and…
Reset required for DFAT-AusAID integration
“Foreign policy alignment” was the political “abracadabra” used to explain how the late 2013 integration of what was then AusAID into the Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade…
Reconciling with China in the Pacific
Last month, Chinese Foreign Minister Wang Yi met with Australia’s Foreign Minister Marise Payne on the sidelines of the United Nations General Assembly in New York. Wang Yi struck…
Australian aid can secure private investment in frontier markets
Last month in The Interpreter, Clay O’Brien proposed the creation of a Development Finance Institution (DFI) for Australia’s aid program. This shift in thinking about the way the…
Aid and development links: Nile dams, refugees as investment, teaching salaries, and more
The Davos summit is taking place this week. At the Center for Global Development, Michael Clemens and Kate Gough argue that human mobility and migration solutions should be a…
An investment bank for Australia’s aid program
In a recent article in the Australian Financial Review, Treasurer Scott Morrison endorsed the use of impact investing: investment with the goal of achieving a social result…
Aid and development links: Working women, populism, peacekeeping and more
The World Bank’s Uzma Quresh and Tanya D'Lima examine the economic and social impact of violence against women in Pakistan, and the role that local governments and media in…
Aid and development links: Yemen blockade, Chinese aid, infectious diseases and more
UN officials have asked the Saudi-led coalition to lift its blockade of Yemen's Red Sea so the country can receive desperately needed humanitarian supplies. A Global Compact…
The fall and fall of Australia’s aid program
Diminished and marginalised sums up the way Australia's development assistance program is treated in the Foreign Policy White Paper.
The program represents by far the…
Aid and development links: Technology in Africa, COP23, development research and more
The Economist details what technology can and, critically, can’t do to help solve Africa’s development challenges. Politico has a fascinating profile on Scott Guggenheim, a…