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Research Fellow, Pacific Islands Program

Lowy Institute

Areas of ExpertisePolitics and economics in the Pacific; Aid and international development policy.

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Lowy Institute Conversations: World Bank President David Malpass on COVID-19 and the developing world

In this episode of Lowy Institute Conversations, Alexandre Dayant, Research Fellow at the Lowy Institute, sits down with David Malpass, President of the World Bank

By Alexandre Dayant

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Pacific development outlook for 2021

The economic toll of the pandemic will take years to recover from, but signs of progress are starting to appear.

By Alexandre Dayant

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Avoiding a “lost decade” in the Pacific

Remoteness has helped the Pacific mitigate the worst health risks in the pandemic – but not the severe economic costs.

By Roland Rajah, Alexandre Dayant

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Avoiding a Pacific Lost Decade: Financing the Pacific's COVID-19 Recovery

The Pacific's post-pandemic economic revival will rely on an internationalmulti-year recovery package of grants and loans led by Australia

By Roland Rajah, Alexandre Dayant

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The Pacific has pulled off a coronavirus miracle. But it comes at a price

Originally published in ABC News

By Jonathan Pryke, Alexandre Dayant

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Lowy Institute Pacific Aid Map

The Lowy Institute Pacific Aid Map is an analytical tool designed to enhance aid effectiveness in the Pacific by improving coordination, alignment, and accountability of foreign aid. The interactive collects data on almost 13,000 projects in 14 countries from 62 donors from 2011 onwards. This data

By Alexandre Dayant, Jonathan Pryke

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Health spending and foreign aid in the Pacific

The newest Pacific Aid Map, with nearly a decade of project-level data for the region, helps shine a light on health.

By Jonathan Pryke, Alexandre Dayant, Tahi Izumi

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COVIDcast: Joseph E. Stiglitz on global cooperation in a time of international mistrust

In this episode of COVIDcast, Lowy Institute Research Fellow Alexandre Dayant sat down with Professor Joseph E. Stiglitz to discuss the prospect of global cooperation in a time of rising populism and international mistrust.

By Alexandre Dayant

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New Caledonia: A vote lost, yet independence advocates claim a win

A closer result in the second of three possible referendums shows the territory’s future is not yet settled.

By Alexandre Dayant

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COVIDcast: Yanis Varoufakis on Europe and the future of capitalism

In this episode of COVIDcast, Lowy Institute Research Fellow Alexandre Dayant sat down with Professor Yanis Varoufakis to discuss Europe and the future of capitalism. Yanis is currently a member of the Hellenic Parliament and served as Greece’s minister of finance during the government debt crisis

By Alexandre Dayant

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The demographic influence in New Caledonia’s next referendum

Ahead of the second independence ballot, shifting demographics and past voting patterns offer insight into the result.

By Alexandre Dayant

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Submission to the UK Foreign Affairs Committee Inquiry into the contribution of the FCO to the Integrated Review of UK foreign policy strategy

The UK government's ‘Integrated Review of foreign policy, defence, security and development’, announced in February 2020, has been described as the largest foreign-policy review since the Cold War. The UK Parliament's Foreign Affairs Committee is inquiring into the FCO’s contribution

By Alexandre Dayant, Jonathan Pryke

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Submission to the Joint Standing Committee on Foreign Affairs, Defence and Trade Inquiry into the Implications of the COVID-19 Pandemic for Australia's Foreign Affairs, Defence and Trade

Joint submission by Lowy Institute researchers to the JSCFADT inquiry into the implications of the pandemic.

By Ben Bland, Alexandre Dayant, John Edwards, Michael Fullilove, Bonnie S Glaser, Stephen Grenville, Natasha Kassam, Lydia Khalil, Hervé Lemahieu , Richard McGregor, Shane McLeod, Annmaree O’Keeffe, Alex Oliver, Jonathan Pryke, Roland Rajah, Sam Roggeveen, Ben Scott

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Europe, united in recovery – for now

A “historic” agreement has buoyed markets and marks a further, albeit temporary, step towards European federalism.

By Alexandre Dayant

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Chequebook diplomacy in the Pacific: Not just the big fish

Small donors seeking UN Security Council seats are providing more aid to Pacific nations.

By Euan Moyle, Alexandre Dayant

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Emerging From COVID: Policy Responses To The Pandemic

In this new feature, Lowy Institute experts provide policy recommendations for Australia to address issues that are critical to our nation’s — and the world’s — successful emergence from the pandemic

By Alex Oliver, Natasha Kassam, Richard McGregor, Roland Rajah, Ben Scott, Sam Roggeveen, Hervé Lemahieu , Stephen Grenville, Alyssa Leng, John Edwards, Ben Bland, Alexandre Dayant, Shane McLeod, Jonathan Pryke

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Emerging from COVID: Policy Responses to the Pandemic

Lowy Institute experts provide policy recommendations for Australia to address issues that are critical to our nation's — and the world's — successful emergence from the pandemic

By Ben Bland, Alexandre Dayant, John Edwards, Stephen Grenville, Natasha Kassam, Hervé Lemahieu , Richard McGregor, Shane McLeod, Alex Oliver, Jonathan Pryke, Roland Rajah, Sam Roggeveen, Ben Scott

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Aiding the Pacific during Covid – a stock-take and further steps

Money is flowing, but the proportion of support is well below amounts advanced economies are deploying for themselves.

By Alexandre Dayant, Roland Rajah

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Development links: Education journeys, Pacific politics, doing the new

Links and stories from the aid and development sector.

By Alexandre Dayant

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Covid-19 exposes the need for a European constitution

The pandemic has ruptured the fragile solidarity at the heart of the European project. There is a chance to fix it.

By Alexandre Dayant

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Meanwhile, development marches on...

As the Covid-19 pandemic demands the world’s attention, questions of economic and social progress are as urgent as ever.

By Alexandre Dayant

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How much is too much? Covid loans for the Pacific

Not all regional nations are overloaded by debt. There is some scope to lend sustainably.

By Alexandre Dayant, Roland Rajah

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Pacific links: Social media as a tool to protect health and economies

The Lowy Institute is using analytical tool CrowdTangle to monitor and track online messages across the region.

By Alexandre Dayant, Shane McLeod

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Aid links: Coronavirus and the developing world

The spread of Covid-19 to countries with already struggling health systems is raising alarms.

By Alexandre Dayant

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Covid-19 and migration: Europe must resist a populist pill

The far right is peddling a falsehood people better serve themselves. Together, the EU can show just how wrong this is.

By Alexandre Dayant

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Avoiding the wrong lessons on aid and corruption

Is development aid an effective solution to lifting countries out of poverty? Roland Rajah, Director of the International Economy Program, and Research Fellow Alexandre Dayant write on aid and corruption. Originally published in the Devpolicy Blog

By Roland Rajah, Alexandre Dayant