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  • 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.
  • 5 Aug 2024
    • Aid & Development
    • China – Belt and Road Initiative
    • United Nations

    What is China’s role in achieving the UN’s 2030 Sustainable Development Goals?

    Hannah McNicol
    It is time to think more seriously about the increasing relationship between Chinese and dominant international development models.
  • 30 Jul 2024
    • Aid & Development
    • Pacific Islands
    • Sex and Gender

    Gender equality, the Pacific way

    Mercy Masta , Elisabeth Jackson
    “Using culture to change culture” is how to make real progress in addressing a longstanding regional challenge.
  • 29 Jul 2024
    • Aid & Development

    The tricky delivery of aid and access in conflicts and crises

    Grace Stanhope
    Gaza is only the latest example of the logistical challenges in providing humanitarian relief.
  • 27 Jun 2024
    • Aid & Development
    • Australia
    • Australian Foreign Aid
    • Africa

    Aid discrepancies: Australia’s modest help to the Horn of Africa

    Christopher Burke
    The optics of such a small aid package against significant need could undermine Australia’s image as a significant player in international humanitarian assistance.
  • 24 Jun 2024
    • Aid & Development
    • Pacific Islands

    Fragmented and burdensome: Small European donors are clogging Pacific aid channels

    Riley Duke
    Competition, political self-interest, and poor coordination are overburdening the region’s administrations.
  • 19 Jun 2024
    • Aid & Development
    • Australia
    • Pacific Islands

    Is a new Australian police program what the Pacific needs?

    Danielle Watson
    Engagement on policing is crucial, but it must be regionally led.
  • 17 Jun 2024
    • Aid & Development
    • Southeast Asia

    2024 Southeast Asia Aid Map: Warning signs for the region

    Grace Stanhope , Alexandre Dayant
    Declining levels of international financial support, especially for the clean energy transition, are cause for alarm.
  • 27 May 2024
    • Aid & Development
    • China
    • Trade

    What do Biden’s big new China tariffs mean for global development?

    Roland Rajah
    Downsides abound but there’s also a path where developing nations benefit.
  • 24 May 2024
    • Aid & Development
    • Australia
    • Global Issues

    Should foreign aid be the government’s responsibility?

    Clay O’Brien
    A fair-go means everyone pitching in to help those in need. Plenty of options exist, if we choose to use them.
  • 21 May 2024
    • Aid & Development
    • Australia
    • Australia's Economy
    • Defence & Security
    • Diplomacy

    Putting dollars behind “all tools of statecraft”

    Tom Barber
    The budget papers offer a chance to assess the government’s claims against fiscal reality.
  • 17 May 2024
    • Aid & Development
    • Australia

    Australia is increasingly spending around, not on, development

    Grace Stanhope
    Transparency could be the cost of the semi-commercialisation of Australia’s international development efforts.
  • 15 May 2024
    • Aid & Development
    • Recommendations

    The Translator: The nomenclature of foreign aid

    Grace Stanhope , Riley Duke
    A series in which experts explain the sometimes baffling jargon of international affairs.
  • 3 May 2024
    • Aid & Development
    • Australia
    • Pacific Islands

    Australia’s superannuation rules leave Pacific workers out of pocket

    Jessica Collins
    The government must reconsider its tax on the Pacific’s poorest.
  • 1 May 2024
    • Aid & Development
    • Climate change
    • Sustainability
    • Pacific Islands

    Fixing the plastics problem when delivering urgent aid

    Margaret Nesi
    Coping with climate change is hard enough. Sustainability cannot be overlooked in humanitarian action across the Pacific.
  • 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.
  • 14 Mar 2024
    • Aid & Development
    • Southeast Asia
    • Climate change

    A multilateral bank for the Indo-Pacific?

    Michelle Lyons , Roland Rajah , Grace Stanhope
    The region needs a dedicated bank that enhances economic security in the pursuit of climate and development goals.
  • 7 Feb 2024
    • Aid & Development
    • Australia
    • Pacific Islands
    • Papua New Guinea
    • Sex and Gender

    Whose security is really at stake? Gender must be prioritised in Australia‑PNG security agreement

    Sarah Morley
    More police can’t be the answer when police have long been part of the problem.
  • 6 Feb 2024
    • Aid & Development
    • China
    • Pacific Islands
    • Vanuatu

    A new China loan threatens Vanuatu’s debt outlook

    Alexandre Dayant , Riley Duke
    A new major infrastructure project could leave the country on the road to debt distress.
  • 17 Jan 2024
    • Aid & Development
    • Australia
    • Australia's Economy
    • Australia's Trade
    • Africa

    Australia and Africa: Economic diplomacy is out of sync with investment ties

    Ian Satchwell
    While other partners are taking care of business, Australia lacks the trade support it needs to thrive.
  • 15 Dec 2023
    • Aid & Development
    • Development Assistance
    • Australia and the Pacific
    • Pacific Islands

    Gains, pains, and dubious claims from the Pacific Labour Mobility Survey

    Matt Withers
    The large-scale survey produced limited data on complex issues and is no substitute for culturally appropriate social research.
  • 14 Dec 2023
    • Aid & Development
    • India
    • Japan
    • Australia
    • Defence & Security
    • United States

    Shifting Quad relief operations from theory to practice

    Neely Haby
    A relief operation exercise would allow the Quad partners to draw in other countries and showcase a regional good. 
  • 13 Dec 2023
    • Aid & Development
    • Bangladesh
    • Myanmar
    • Asylum seekers and refugees

    Crunch time on Rohingya refugees

    David Brewster
    By bolstering assistance to Bangladesh, Australia can avoid a new source of maritime arrivals.
  • 29 Nov 2023
    • Aid & Development
    • Asean
    • Southeast Asia
    • Australia
    • Energy
    • Technology

    Southeast Asia's minerals: Opportunity knocks

    Ian Satchwell
    Australia should make better use of its regional leadership in minerals technology, skills and governance.
  • 24 Nov 2023
    • Aid & Development
    • China
    • Taiwan
    • Pacific Islands
    • Sex and Gender

    China and Taiwan are big Pacific donors – but not for gender equality

    Jessica Collins
    More clarity on the flows of funds would help to assign what little credit is due.
  • 22 Nov 2023
    • Aid & Development
    • Australia
    • Pacific Islands
    • Sex and Gender

    Does Australia’s walk match its talk about helping Pacific women advance?

    Jessica Collins
    Big dollars are one thing, meaningful outcomes another.
  • 20 Nov 2023
    • Aid & Development
    • Australia
    • Pacific Islands
    • Sex and Gender

    Pacific Aid Map: Big data gaps are skewing the story about women

    Jessica Collins
    Better reporting is needed to properly understand which projects are targeting gender issues in the region.
  • 17 Nov 2023
    • Aid & Development
    • Southeast Asia
    • Australia
    • Pacific Islands

    Australian development cooperation: Urgent and important, but “not a priority”

    Richard Moore
    Development policy contradictions reveal the failure of the DFAT-AusAID integration.
  • 9 Nov 2023
    • Aid & Development
    • IMF
    • Climate change
    • Environment
    • Multilateral Institutions
    • Sustainability

    Private finance cannot lead the global response to climate change

    Arth Mishra , Connor O’Brien
    Misplaced faith in private sector solutions delays the redistribution of trillions from developed countries and multilateral institutions.
  • 2 Nov 2023
    • Aid & Development
    • Climate change
    • Vanuatu

    Measuring the climate cost to Pacific development

    Riley Duke , Gilliane De Gorostiza
    International assistance is not keeping up with intensifying rate and scale of disasters in the region.
  • 1 Nov 2023
    • Aid & Development
    • Pacific Islands
    • Papua New Guinea

    Loans, not grants, already proving costly for PNG

    Maholopa Laveil
    The latest Pacific Aid Map shows the PNG debt burden is growing and risks loom on the horizon.
  • 31 Oct 2023
    • Aid & Development
    • Australia
    • Australia and the Pacific

    Pacific aid enters a new era

    Alexandre Dayant
    The latest Lowy Institute Pacific Aid Map demonstrates that there is no going back to the way things were.
  • 27 Oct 2023
    • Aid & Development
    • China – Belt and Road Initiative
    • Development Assistance
    • Emerging Donors
    • China
    • Indonesia
    • Indonesia's Economy

    Geopolitics and the Jakarta-Bandung high-speed railway

    Teesta Prakash , Jack Sato
    Has the bullet train project strained the once tight relationship between Indonesia and China?
  • 18 Oct 2023
    • Aid & Development
    • Climate change

    Crafting a new loss and damage fund

    Melanie Pill
    Harnessing philanthropic finance and emulating features from existing solutions could be a match made in heaven.
  • 27 Sep 2023
    • Aid & Development
    • Afghanistan

    Why humanitarian aid is vital to Afghanistan

    Matiullah Qazizada
    Despite significant hurdles, aid has continued to bolster the country’s employment, education and banking sectors.
  • 22 Sep 2023
    • Aid & Development
    • Development Assistance

    Post-disaster aid in developing and fragile states

    Grace Stanhope
    Political mismanagement and failures of governance all too often exacerbate the effects of natural disasters.
  • 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.
  • 17 Aug 2023
    • Aid & Development
    • Australia

    Economic diplomacy: Slicing up a new aid menu

    Greg Earl
    Australia is persisting with a homemade mix of old and new financing tools to be the development dining partner of choice in the region.
  • 14 Aug 2023
    • Aid & Development
    • Australia and the Pacific
    • Pacific Islands

    What does the new International Development Policy mean for the Pacific?

    Jessica Collins , Meg Keen
    Australia has outlined its case for being the preferred regional partner, but the Pacific needs less talk and more action.
  • 11 Aug 2023
    • Aid & Development
    • Development Assistance
    • Southeast Asia

    The constrained ambition of Australia’s new development policy

    Roland Rajah
    Aid “rebuild” focuses on quality and smarter geopolitics, but not dollars.
  • 8 Aug 2023
    • Aid & Development
    • Australia

    International development: Putting the heart back in Australian foreign policy

    Marc Purcell
    The government has taken a big step after listening to regional partners – now it has a chance to fill in the details.
  • 3 Aug 2023
    • Aid & Development
    • China
    • Indonesia
    • Australia
    • Trade
    • Sustainability
    • Technology

    Economic diplomacy: Hard labour managing geo-economic fragmentation

    Greg Earl
    Australia faces tough choices from aid to energy in a new world of government intervention in trade and industry.
  • 25 Jul 2023
    • Aid & Development
    • Timor-Leste
    • Australia

    What is Australia’s role in supporting Timor-Leste?

    Melissa Conley Tyler , Grant Wyeth
    Health and education are where Canberra can help Dili the most. But language barriers require thinking outside the box.
  • 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.
  • 20 Apr 2023
    • Aid & Development
    • Australia
    • Pacific Islands
    • Solomon Islands

    Questions about Australian aid to fund the Pacific Games

    Stephen Howes
    Australia is backing a sports tournament over urgent development needs, and doing so may break international aid rules.
  • 30 Jan 2023
    • Aid & Development
    • Pacific Islands

    Getting it together: Pacific engagement still lacks coordination

    Meg Keen
    Showing collective action across countries and sectors is essential to Pacific development and winning friends.
  • 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.
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