- 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: