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...
Category - Aid and development
What is the future of work in agri-food?
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...
‘Memorandum of Understanding: conversations about international development’ – our new podcast
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...
What Australian aid flows show
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...
Best of the Blog 2020
2020 has been a year of lockdown and closed borders. We couldn’t travel so we wrote, publishing 364...
A moment in time: COVID, localisation and the Pacific
As COVID-19 was declared a pandemic and international travel restrictions, border closures and...
PACER Plus: why it matters now
The Pacific Agreement on Closer Economic Relations Plus – or PACER Plus – entered into force on 13...
Aid’s implementariat: national and invisible
Donor officials are prominent in the performative ‘front-stage’ of aid, cutting ribbons at school...
SWP governance in sending countries and Australia: our...
On Wednesday, we launched our report Governance of the Seasonal Worker Programme in Australia and...
Managing seasonal labour mobility: government-central versus...
Seasonal labour mobility – temporary Pacific migrants working on Australian and New Zealand farms –...