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  • 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
  • 7 Nov 2016
    • Australian Foreign Aid

    Aid & development links: Unskilled migrants, security partnerships, UN peacekeepers and more

    Jonathan Pryke
    Venezuela's implosion, the US foreign assistance budget, Zimbabwe going cashless, and more.
  • 1 Nov 2016
    • Australian Foreign Aid

    Aid & development links: Poverty, tractors, Wonder Woman and more

    Jonathan Pryke
  • 2 May 2016
    • Australian Foreign Aid

    Aid & development links: Happiness Report, Australian aid budget, Venezuela's two-day work week and more

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