This is a two part blog-post based on a paper presented to the ACFID University Network Conference...
Category - Aid effectiveness
Africa’s economic reform experience: lessons for the Pacific
If one looks at the economic scene of Africa today one can’t help but be impressed by the...
Thinking about aid’s organisation
What does research tell us about the relationship between a donor government aid program’s purpose...
Fifty years of ACFID – looking back, looking forward
The reflection on the not quite 40 year life of AusAID by Robin Davies (Felled before forty)...
Dismantling AusAID: taking a leaf out of the Canadian book?
The Canadian International Development Agency (CIDA) preceded its Australian cousin into oblivion...
Felled before forty: the once and future AusAID
Today the agency known since 1995 as AusAID ceases to exist as an independent organisation. And, as...
Frames for aid policy: the work of van der Veen
Recent blogs considering the national interest’s role in the Australian aid program (here and...
AusAID staffing: how low could it go?
Judging from recent remarks by the finance minister, Senator Mathias Cormann, the government might...
New Zealand needs a fence for aid, not aid for fences
Cows in Burma and the form and function of a government aid agency. You wouldn’t think they’d have...
New 3ie working paper reviews effectiveness of education...
What are the most effective ways to get children into school, to keep them there and to ensure that...