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29 Nov 2024
Top jobs must go to the best candidates. International financial institutions should be no different
The appointment of a new Asian Development Bank president highlights the need for a shift to competitive and transparent selection of senior management everywhere. -
24 Oct 2024
A new multilateral bank, not an American “Marshall Plan” alone, is the key to a clean energy future
The numbers don’t add up for the United States to make itself the global hub for green technology. -
17 Oct 2024
Economic diplomacy: After the storm comes the reconstruction
From a new measure of business competitiveness to revamped supply chains, global agencies are slowly adjusting to post-pandemic life. -
4 Sep 2024
Australia should make a strategic investment in the World Bank
Geostrategic competition makes the multilateral advantage more vital than ever, especially in the Pacific. -
2 May 2024
Economic diplomacy: It’s nostalgists vs strategists
As a new Treasurer claims a geo-economic legacy in industrial policy, his predecessor’s once shiny G20 triumph has been dumped. -
2 Apr 2024
Australia’s Southeast Asia trade stumbling block
Canberra must move fast on a formal information-sharing facility to reach its regional economic and foreign policy goals. -
28 Mar 2024
Replenishing the Asian Development Bank in the Pacific
A strong replenishment of the bank’s grant financing arm would serve the Pacific well. -
8 Mar 2024
Gender equality financing: Spotlight on Southeast Asia
A discrepancy in data collection for gender-led funding is skewing the stats on development support in the region. -
16 Jun 2023
Does China wield excessive influence in the Asian Infrastructure Investment Bank?
A dramatic resignation this week has put a spotlight on the functions of Beijing’s brainchild. -
3 May 2023
International debt: Time for a global restructuring framework
In domestic bankruptcy, a specialised institution settles creditors. Why can’t this be the case for emerging economies? -
27 Apr 2023
Shaky foundations for the New Development Bank
A new president for BRICS groupings finance arm must steer geopolitical storms from outside – as well as within. -
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20 Oct 2022
Economic diplomacy: The IMF faces a US$ reality check
The Bretton Woods institutions may face existential challenges from the decoupling of the United States and China. -
6 Oct 2022
Economic diplomacy: Time for transparency on aid reform
A new study reveals difficult trade-offs between development spending on governance and the decline of democracy. -
4 Oct 2022
Building a better development finance institution: Australia’s opportunity
Canberra can learn a lot about risk appetite and the culture of financing from those already in the space. -
23 Sep 2022
Six reasons to be cautious about Australia establishing a DFI
As soon as public money is on the table, there will be a line of players looking to “clip the ticket”. -
3 Jun 2022
Labor should create a “Regional Carbon Bank” for ASEAN and the Pacific
An urgent demand for clean electricity infrastructure requires needs a dedicated, multilateral agency in support. -
4 Dec 2020
Jim Wolfensohn’s knowledge bank
Impatient and ambitious, as World Bank president the Australian-turned-American tackled a global “cancer of corruption”. -
4 May 2020
Covid-19 and development banks in Asia
Covid-19 has challenged fears, or hopes, the AIIB would supplant the World Bank and ADB as the development bank in Asia. -
28 Nov 2019
The new development banks: Paradigm shift or poor imitation?
The multilateral development banks set up by China and the BRICS countries have evolved quickly from concept to reality. -
25 Oct 2017
The future role of international financial institutions
The international financial system is significantly different to the one that existed when the IMF and World Bank were established. -
27 Sep 2017
The Asian Development Bank's unfinished business
There is clearly a need to for the ADB consider new approaches. But the huge amount of unfinished work across Asia should remain a priority as well. -
15 Sep 2017
The Asian Development Bank at 50: A spent force?
The Asian Development Bank was once an indispensible institution and should seek to be so again. -
15 Mar 2017
Is the AIIB still ‘lean, clean and green’?
It's a good moment to ask whether the AIIB is holding true to the most central and repeated claim that the bank will be 'lean, clean and green'. -
8 Dec 2016
The future of the AIIB is bigger than Australian coal
If Australian support for the AIIB is so driven by coal exports, the government's commitment to sustainable regional development should be questioned.