As my coauthors and I explained in our recent report on aid flows, the Australian government focuses much of its aid on just a few countries. By doing this, it’s following best practice. Australia is one of the world’s leading donors in this respect. But that’s not quite the end...
In 2019 and 2020, The Asia Foundation embarked upon an inquiry into the changing nature of civic spaces in many parts of Southeast Asia. Through interviews and focus groups with over 450 people in Cambodia, Indonesia, Myanmar, Malaysia, the Philippines, Thailand and Timor-Leste, we sought to...
British Prime Minister Boris Johnson has invited Australia, along with India and South Korea, to attend this year’s prestigious Group of Seven Leaders’ Summit in June. This is a rare opportunity for Australia to contribute to policy discussions with the largest advanced economies in the world...
Where individual effort can be clearly measured, many employers prefer to pay their workers per unit of output rather than per hour. That is, they prefer piecework to hourly rates. One advantage of piecework is that employers can avoid the new Horticulture Award requirement to pay workers an...
Long ago, in a country many miles from where I currently sit, I worked on an aid project. It has...
Several factors are threatening the viability of the Seasonal Worker Programme (SWP). These include...
Across the Global South, the COVID-19 pandemic has reversed years of socioeconomic progress...
There is a saying in international development: wars are hard to stop, famines are not. 2021 may be...
On 1 March 2021, India’s Prime Minister Narendra Modi received the first dose of Covaxin – India’s...
When we started researching violent accusations of witchcraft and sorcery in Papua New Guinea in...
