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Category - Global development policy
Will China’s Asian Infrastructure Investment Bank succeed?
One of the hot topics in the Ministries of Finance across Asia of late is what to make of China’s...
Non-communicable diseases and aid: an update
On 19 January the WHO launched the Global Status Report on Noncommunicable Diseases 2014, the...
Do we need the WHO?
As the struggle to contain Ebola finally ramped up in late 2014, there were persistent critiques of...
A case for the Commonwealth (at last!)
I don’t know any Australian who thinks we should not be a member of the Commonwealth. It is part of...
A decent injection: Australian funding for Gavi
It was announced overnight that the Gavi Alliance has succeeded in its aim of raising US$7...
Education and development: limitations and unintended...
‘Libraries gave us power’ is the first line from Welsh band the Manic Street Preachers’ chart...
Gates’ annual letter makes big bet on a bright future
The 2015 Gates letter came out last week, and as usual, it is a gust of optimism underneath the...
Ten reasons not to miss this year’s aid conference
We held our first Australasian Aid Conference a year ago. In fact, we called it a workshop, because...
Invisible children, bad pop and making people care
Everyone comes to Bob Geldof with baggage. I loved the hating Mondays song, hated his Development...