Development links: Australian aid cuts, G20, happiness economics and more

12 September 2013 10:58

The big aid news from Australia was the 5 September announcement by the LNP Coalition (now the incoming government) of cuts to growth in the aid program. Early analysis of the implications here, here and here.
Papua New Guinea announced new aid packages for its neighbours at the Pacific Islands Forum in the Marshall Islands last week.
Staying in the Pacific: an important initiative advocating for affordable broadband in the Pacific Islands.
As Mike Callaghan wrote, some development-related news from the G20 Summit in Russia was the announcement by the BRICS nations to capitalise their new development bank to the tune of US$100 billion. But there not much else out of St Petersburg in the way of development deliverables, as Susan Harris Rimmer explains.
Happiness economics and the post-2015 development framework.
Preview of new book on Jeffrey Sachs and the Millenium Villages project and lessons from the controversial project in this new paper from the Center for Global Development.
USAID Chief Raj Shah explains why international aid works:

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