While the COVID-19 pandemic is a global emergency, there is another infectious airborne disease that has at best similar or arguably worse impacts and is inextricably linked to poverty and lack of access to health care – tuberculosis (TB). TB is both preventable and curable, yet in 2019 an...
Up to 80 percent of the labour force in low-income countries works in agri-food, mostly on the farm. In high-income countries, the proportion is still about 10 percent, more than half of them off the farm in related food industry and services, and many, migrant workers. Unsurprisingly, much hope is...
Making New Year predictions is a mug’s game – look at how 2020 turned out – but one forecast we make with utmost confidence is that more Memorandums of Understanding about international development will be signed in 2021. Along with the launch of the corporate plan, the gender and social inclusion...
Development Policy Centre staff and associates have used many methods to study Australian government aid. Richard Moore used qualitative interviews to gauge the impact of AusAID’s integration. Luke Levett Minihan and I undertook website content analysis to assess aid transparency. Matthew Dornan...
2020 has been a year of lockdown and closed borders. We couldn’t travel so we wrote, publishing 364...
As COVID-19 was declared a pandemic and international travel restrictions, border closures and...
The Pacific Agreement on Closer Economic Relations Plus – or PACER Plus – entered into force on 13...
Donor officials are prominent in the performative ‘front-stage’ of aid, cutting ribbons at school...
On Wednesday, we launched our report Governance of the Seasonal Worker Programme in Australia and...
Seasonal labour mobility – temporary Pacific migrants working on Australian and New Zealand farms –...
