Articles | Lowy Institute

4 Sep 2024
Aid & Development

Australia

Multilateral Development Banks
Australia should make a strategic investment in the World Bank

Roland Rajah , Georgia Hammersley

Geostrategic competition makes the multilateral advantage more vital than ever, especially in the Pacific.
2 May 2024
South Korea

Australia

Australia's Economy

Australian trade, investment & economy

G20

Geo-economics

Multilateral Development Banks
Economic diplomacy: It’s nostalgists vs strategists

Greg Earl

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
Japan

Southeast Asia

Australia and Asia

Australia's Trade

Multilateral Development Banks
Australia’s Southeast Asia trade stumbling block

Maxfield Peterson

Canberra must move fast on a formal information-sharing facility to reach its regional economic and foreign policy goals.
28 Mar 2024
Aid & Development

Development Assistance

Asia and Pacific

The Asia Pacific's Economies

Climate change

Environment

Multilateral Development Banks
Replenishing the Asian Development Bank in the Pacific

Roland Rajah , Alexandre Dayant

A strong replenishment of the bank’s grant financing arm would serve the Pacific well.
8 Mar 2024
Development Assistance

Southeast Asia

Poverty

Multilateral Development Banks

Sex and Gender
Gender equality financing: Spotlight on Southeast Asia

Grace Stanhope

A discrepancy in data collection for gender-led funding is skewing the stats on development support in the region.
16 Jun 2023
China

Multilateral Development Banks
Does China wield excessive influence in the Asian Infrastructure Investment Bank?

Robert Wihtol

A dramatic resignation this week has put a spotlight on the functions of Beijing’s brainchild.
3 May 2023
Global Economy

Global Economic Governance

IMF

Multilateral Development Banks
International debt: Time for a global restructuring framework

Stephen Grenville

In domestic bankruptcy, a specialised institution settles creditors. Why can’t this be the case for emerging economies?
27 Apr 2023
Global Economy

Multilateral Development Banks

Multilateral Institutions
Shaky foundations for the New Development Bank

Filipe Porto , Genevieve Donnellon-May

A new president for BRICS groupings finance arm must steer geopolitical storms from outside – as well as within.
15 Mar 2023
Multilateral Development Banks
Greening the World Bank

Roland Rajah

Reform must deliver for both climate and development.
20 Oct 2022
Global Economy

IMF

Multilateral Development Banks

Multilateral Institutions
Economic diplomacy: The IMF faces a US$ reality check

Greg Earl

The Bretton Woods institutions may face existential challenges from the decoupling of the United States and China.
6 Oct 2022
Aid & Development

Australia

Australian trade, investment & economy

Multilateral Development Banks
Economic diplomacy: Time for transparency on aid reform

Greg Earl

A new study reveals difficult trade-offs between development spending on governance and the decline of democracy.
4 Oct 2022
Aid & Development

Development Assistance

Asia

Australia and Asia

Australia and the Pacific

Multilateral Development Banks
Building a better development finance institution: Australia’s opportunity

Jessica Mackenzie , Alberto Lemma

Canberra can learn a lot about risk appetite and the culture of financing from those already in the space.
23 Sep 2022
Aid & Development

Australia

Global Economy

Multilateral Development Banks

Multilateral Institutions
Six reasons to be cautious about Australia establishing a DFI

Jenny Gordon

As soon as public money is on the table, there will be a line of players looking to “clip the ticket”.
3 Jun 2022
Asia

Pacific Islands

Multilateral Development Banks

Asean

Australia

Energy
Labor should create a “Regional Carbon Bank” for ASEAN and the Pacific

Peter McCawley

An urgent demand for clean electricity infrastructure requires needs a dedicated, multilateral agency in support.
4 Dec 2020
Global Economy

Multilateral Development Banks
Jim Wolfensohn’s knowledge bank

Peter McCawley

Impatient and ambitious, as World Bank president the Australian-turned-American tackled a global “cancer of corruption”.
4 May 2020
Multilateral Development Banks

Coronavirus
Covid-19 and development banks in Asia

Malcolm Cook

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
Asia

Multilateral Development Banks

China
The new development banks: Paradigm shift or poor imitation?

Robert Wihtol

The multilateral development banks set up by China and the BRICS countries have evolved quickly from concept to reality.
25 Oct 2017
Global Economy

Multilateral Development Banks

IMF
The future role of international financial institutions

Mike Callaghan

The international financial system is significantly different to the one that existed when the IMF and World Bank were established.
27 Sep 2017
Multilateral Development Banks
The Asian Development Bank's unfinished business

Peter McCawley

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
Global Economy

Multilateral Development Banks
The Asian Development Bank at 50: A spent force?

Richard Moore

The Asian Development Bank was once an indispensible institution and should seek to be so again.
15 Mar 2017
Multilateral Development Banks
Is the AIIB still ‘lean, clean and green’?

Sam Geall

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
Multilateral Development Banks
The future of the AIIB is bigger than Australian coal

Hannah Wurf

If Australian support for the AIIB is so driven by coal exports, the government's commitment to sustainable regional development should be questioned.