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12 Sep 2023
Aid & Development

Australia

Australian Foreign Aid

Sex and Gender
Finding a place for youth leadership in Australia’s new International Development Policy

Helen Berents , Katrina Lee-Koo

Young people will be central to addressing regional challenges so their meaningful inclusion must be ensured.
7 Sep 2023
Aid & Development

Australia

Australian Foreign Aid
Does Australia lack strategic imagination on aid and development?

Soli Middleby , Susan Engel

A debate on fundamentals is sorely needed but conspicuously lacking.
31 Aug 2023
Aid & Development

Australia

Australia's Economy

Australian Diplomacy

Australian Foreign Aid
Economic diplomacy: Spirit of Australia charts a fresh course

Greg Earl

The government is fashioning a more interventionist economic leg to the new amity between its aid policy, regional diplomacy and military spending.
16 May 2023
Aid & Development

Australia

Australian Foreign Aid
Life in Australia’s aid program - but not as we know it

Grace Stanhope

The cost of development measures is being spread across government in creative ways, making coordination harder.
5 May 2023
Aid & Development

Australia

Australian Foreign Aid
Budget time: Will Labor rebuild Australia’s aid program, and how?

Roland Rajah , Riley Duke

Global crisis and shifting economic realities mean Australia must both rebuild and modernise its development efforts.
25 Jan 2023
Aid & Development

China – Belt and Road Initiative

Development Assistance

Australia and the Pacific

Australian Foreign Aid

Pacific Islands

Papua New Guinea

Solomon Islands
Chinese aid to the Pacific: decreasing, but not disappearing

Alexandre Dayant , Meg Keen , Roland Rajah

With fewer Chinese finances available and less demand from Pacific countries, geopolitical competition is opening up.
7 Dec 2022
Myanmar

Australian Foreign Aid

Migration
Australia could lead the way on Rohingya crisis

Arunn Jegan

Canberra is well placed to broker a new deal for resettling the region’s most vulnerable refugees.
2 Nov 2022
Aid & Development

Australian Foreign Aid

Sex and Gender
Where does Australia’s new aid budget leave gender equality?

Annabel Dulhunty

Gender equality is not just an “add-on”, it is essential to a functioning society. Funding must reflect that.
16 Sep 2022
Aid & Development

Australia

Australian Development Assistance

Australian Foreign Aid
Five reasons Australia should establish a Development Finance Institution

Roland Rajah

A DFI would expand Canberra’s development toolkit and re-establish the country as a serious financing partner in Asia.
7 Apr 2022
Pacific Islands

Australian Foreign Aid

Chinese Foreign Aid

Australia

China
Economic diplomacy: Priorities shift amid a budget aid boost

Greg Earl

The IMF has given Chinese spending a tick as Australia tries to muscle up in the Pacific.
12 May 2021
Australian Foreign Aid

Australia
Australian aid: How low can it go?

Jonathan Pryke

As the developing world suffers a crisis unlike any ever seen, the budget shows Australia at its least generous ever.
23 Apr 2021
Australian Foreign Aid

Timor-Leste

Climate change
Timor-Leste’s floods and Covid lockdown aggravate political rifts

Michael Leach

Mounting crises raise questions about infrastructure spending, the uses of oil wealth and the need for elite consensus.
13 Apr 2021
Australian Foreign Aid

Timor-Leste

Climate change
Dili floods a costly consequence of poor urban planning

Joao da Cruz Cardoso

Reactive measures by the Timor-Leste government and aid from overseas won’t prevent the same disaster next time.
1 Dec 2020
Pacific Islands

Australian Foreign Aid

Australia

Australia and the Pacific

United Kingdom
The UK’s unwelcome foreign aid cut

Philip Citowicki

Amid a pandemic and shifting geopolitics, the aid budget was a victim of its own size – and domestic pressures.
7 Oct 2020
Australian Foreign Aid

Australian Diplomacy
A budget of skewed priorities

Alex Oliver

As Australia faces one of the most challenging international environments in a century, it still skimps on diplomacy.
7 Aug 2020
Asylum Seekers

Australian Foreign Aid

Syria

Migration

Human rights
The Beirut explosion and the plight of Syrian refugees

Erin Watson-Lynn

The blast that killed over 100 and injured thousands is also a reminder of the fragile existence of millions.
20 Dec 2019
Pacific Islands

Australian Foreign Aid

Chinese Foreign Aid

Australia

China
Little to gain from linking Australia’s aid with China in the Pacific

Michael Fullilove , Jonathan Pryke

Canberra is the biggest donor in the neighbourhood and has regional goals very different from Beijing.
21 Nov 2019
Asia

Global Economy

Pacific Islands

Australian Foreign Aid
Economic diplomacy: Australia’s BRI, aid revamp, and integrating Asia

Greg Earl

The now snappily rebranded Export Finance Australia is becoming the go-to agency in the era of geo-economic competition.
17 Apr 2019
Pacific Islands

Australian Foreign Aid
Follow the money: how foreign aid spending tells of Pacific priorities

Alexandre Dayant

Donor countries, be it Australia or China, illustrate their regional interests by where they choose to put their cash.
25 Mar 2019
Australian Foreign Aid
Reset required for DFAT-AusAID integration

Richard Moore

The promised magic to align aid with interests hasn’t actually materialised as power has shifted from the old aid club.
15 Oct 2018
Pacific Islands

Australian Foreign Aid

Chinese Foreign Aid
Reconciling with China in the Pacific

Alexandre Dayant , Euan Moyle

To overcome suspicion, Australia should work to reshape the multilateral system for better global collaboration on aid.
25 Jan 2018
Australian Foreign Aid

Papua New Guinea
Australian aid can secure private investment in frontier markets

Stephen Nash

Meeting urgent infrastructure needs in PNG is an example where public support can boost private investment.
22 Jan 2018
Australian Foreign Aid

United Nations
Aid and development links: Nile dams, refugees as investment, teaching salaries, and more

Alexandre Dayant

Links from across the aid and development field.
15 Dec 2017
Australian Foreign Aid
An investment bank for Australia’s aid program

Clay O’Brien

To ensure a diminished foreign aid budget has impact, Australia needs to start investing.
12 Dec 2017
Australian Foreign Aid
Aid and development links: Working women, populism, peacekeeping and more

Alexandre Dayant

Updates from across the aid and development field.
4 Dec 2017
Australian Foreign Aid
Aid and development links: Yemen blockade, Chinese aid, infectious diseases and more

Alexandre Dayant

Updates on issues across the aid and development sector.
24 Nov 2017
Australia in the World

Australian Foreign Aid

Australian Development Assistance
The fall and fall of Australia’s aid program

Annmaree O’Keeffe

The White Paper diminishes and stifles Australia's international development story.
20 Nov 2017
Australian Foreign Aid
Aid and development links: Technology in Africa, COP23, development research and more

Jonathan Pryke

Jonathan Pryke, Director of the Lowy Institute's Pacific Islands Program, with links on updates across the field.
16 Nov 2017
Pacific Islands

Australian Foreign Aid
Australia makes a welcome Pacific connection

Jonathan Pryke

It's rare win-win for anyone not working in Huawei’s Pacific branch.
13 Nov 2017
Australian Foreign Aid
Aid and development links: Myanmar, China’s aid, the challenges of terrorism and more

Jonathan Pryke

Jonathan Pryke, Director of the Pacific Islands Program, with links on updates across the aid and development field.
7 Nov 2017
Pacific Islands

Australian Foreign Aid

Australia and the Pacific

Papua New Guinea
Cleaning up the Manus damage

Anna Kirk

PNG is Australia’s nearest neighbour, former colony and one of Australia’s most important bilateral partners.
6 Nov 2017
Australian Foreign Aid

Australian Development Assistance
Aid & development links: Female empowerment, OECD ODA, tax havens and more

Alexandre Dayant

Links on updates across the aid and development field.
30 Oct 2017
Australian Foreign Aid
Aid and development links: NZ’s aid program, transparency, the poverty line and more

Alexandre Dayant

Alexandre Dayant, a Research Associate in the Pacific Islands Program, with links on updates across the aid and development fields.
17 Jul 2017
Australian Foreign Aid
Aid and development links: Kenyan elections, the SDGs, aid systems and more

Jonathan Pryke

A basic income trial in Kenya, the fascinating and lucrative relationship between North Korea and Africa, how the aid system needs to change and more.
26 Jun 2017
Australian Foreign Aid
Aid and development links: Contractors, WHO leadership, aid budgets and more

Jonathan Pryke

The role of private contractors in the aid sector, how impact-measuring affects development, the link between resources and violence, and more.
10 May 2017
Australian Foreign Aid
Australian aid budget: It could have been worse

Jonathan Pryke

It's clear that public support isn’t enough for a government that does not view aid as an election issue.
27 Mar 2017
Australian Foreign Aid
Aid and development links: How to sell aid to voters, taxing remittances, edible drones and more

Jonathan Pryke

Is it more effective to appeal to the national interest or to ethics when discussing aid with the public?
20 Mar 2017
Australian Foreign Aid
Aid and development links: War in Yemen, inequality rankings, cash transfers and more

Jonathan Pryke

The aid implications of Trump's budget, in defence of British aid spending, Indonesia moving away from being an aid recipient, and more.
14 Mar 2017
Australian Foreign Aid
Aid & Development links: Kenya tests universal basic income, Salome Karwah, South Sudan famine and more

Jonathan Pryke

Universal basic income experiment in Kenya, South Sudanese government increases foreign aid visa fees days after famine declared, fund opposing Trump's global gag rule reaches $190 million and more.
6 Mar 2017
Australian Foreign Aid
Aid and Development links: American aid, financial literacy, demonetisation and more

Jonathan Pryke

The future of US aid, cash transfers in Lebanon, universal basic income and more.
28 Feb 2017
Australian Foreign Aid
Hard-wiring aid and development to foreign policy

Marc Purcell

We cannot create greater prosperity and security for Australia if we pursue a set of narrowly defined interests using a piecemeal strategy.
27 Feb 2017
Australian Foreign Aid
Aid & development links: Famine in Sudan, universal basic incomes, fighting cholera and more

Jonathan Pryke

News, research and analysis from around the world.
20 Feb 2017
Australian Foreign Aid
Aid & Development links: Seasonal work, the Gates letter, ADB research and more

Jonathan Pryke

The latest news, research and analysis from around the world.
6 Feb 2017
Australian Foreign Aid
Aid and development links: Smoking costs a trillion, Global Gag Rule, peak global and more

Jonathan Pryke

This week's links cover a range of health, aid and development issues, including the impact of reinstatement of the Global Gag Rule by US President Donald Trump and efforts to plug the subsequent funding gap.
23 Jan 2017
Australian Foreign Aid
Aid & Development links: Jin Liquin, vaccine funding, Zika and more

Jonathan Pryke

This week's links include a profile on the new head of the Asian Infrastructure Investment Bank, Oxfam ruffling feathers at Davos and more.
16 Jan 2017
Australian Foreign Aid
Aid & Development links: 2016 not so bad, a Lagos holiday, UK frets and more

Jonathan Pryke
19 Dec 2016
Australian Foreign Aid
Aid and development links: South Sudan, cash transfers, philanthropy, and more

Jonathan Pryke

World Bank member countries have pledged $75 billion in lending to the world’s poorest countries over the next three years.
5 Dec 2016
Australian Foreign Aid
Aid and development links: The war on poverty, UN apologises, education intervention and more

Jonathan Pryke
21 Nov 2016
Australian Foreign Aid
Aid and development links: India's cash chaos, controlled trials under fire and more

Jonathan Pryke

India's sudden ban on high-denomination bank notes causes trouble, what's wrong with randomised controlled trials, labour abuse accusations in Malaysia and more
14 Nov 2016
Australian Foreign Aid
Aid & development links: COP 22, trading in cash, Africans on China and more

Jonathan Pryke

Climate talks, cigarettes the big killer in poorer nations, Africans keen on china and more