Has aid failed? This question has been considered many times before by both supporters and critics...
Category - Australian aid
The mess that is DFAT’s aid website
A while ago, I complained that all the project pages had been taken down from DFAT’s aid website...
Pacific Islanders in Australia: where are the Melanesians?
Labour mobility in the Pacific region has been recognised in recent years as a vital component of...
Using the c-word: Australian anti-corruption policy in Papua New...
Around the world international donors have become more and more comfortable with the ‘c-word’ –...
Scholarships and the aid program (part three): future directions...
In part two of this series, I outlined some very positive findings from our research, funded by the...
Australia’s economic diplomacy: is this good development?
Australia’s economic diplomacy provides an overarching narrative for the government’s foreign...
Scholarships and the aid program (part two): emerging results of...
In part one of this series of posts, I examined the considerable role that scholarships play in the...
Scholarships and the aid program (part one): waste of money or...
This exploration of scholarships in the Australian aid program comes in three parts. The first...
Reflections on the new aid paradigm, part 4: aid in hazard
While development research aims at innovation, and so carries risk, few political or bureaucratic...
Local staff and aid effectiveness: does integration matter?
Much has been written on this blog and elsewhere about the potential impacts of the DFAT-AusAID...