The recent awarding of the Nobel Prize to Abhijit Banerjee, Esther Duflo and Michael Kremer for...
Category - Aid effectiveness
Time for donors to do development differently
There are two well-known women’s groups in Simbu in the Highlands of PNG. Both organisations...
Could governments learn better?
There is a difference between learning what to do, which depends on the accumulation and...
The horticulture labour shortage myth
Since 2008 when the Rudd Government first introduced the Seasonal Worker Programme (SWP), there has...
Demographic and Health Surveys: “smart aid”
Papua New Guinea (PNG) has recently released its latest Demographic and Health Survey (DHS) Key...
The R4D iXc review
A report on the InnovationXChange (iXc) by Results for Development or R4D, a US NGO...
The problem with ‘best practice’: using PDIA to find solutions...
Much is made these days of doing development differently, of adaptive programming, and thinking and...
The 2019 Honiara riots: what went wrong, and what does it mean...
On 24 April, Manasseh Sogavare was declared Solomon Islands’ Prime Minister. This prompted...
Three questions about Australia’s infrastructure promise...
If you’ve ever driven from Honiara out to the places where the roads are finally, fatally...
New Zealand’s aid a year after shifting the dial
Last year Foreign Minister Winston Peters’ caused rare attention to international development...