Development Policy Centre staff and associates have used many methods to study Australian...
Category - Aid effectiveness
Managing seasonal labour mobility: government-central versus...
Seasonal labour mobility – temporary Pacific migrants working on Australian and New Zealand farms –...
Fred Fisk on Pacific reports and consulting in the 1980s. Has...
I recently enjoyed reading the memoirs of E.K. (Fred) Fisk, sometimes referred to as ANU’s first...
More aid to LDCs and less to the Pacific?
Do Australia and New Zealand focus enough aid on Least Developed Countries? ‘Least Developed...
Three arguments against aid, and why they’re wrong
Aid: wealthier countries giving money to less fortunate ones for the sake of improving...
NZ aid under the new Labour government
On 17 October, New Zealand’s Labour party was re-elected in a landslide. The same election...
How the PLS can build a stronger Timor-Leste
In the 18 months I have been writing about labour migration from Timor-Leste to Australia a...
Finding value in ‘diabolically difficult’ justice reviews
Writing of the ‘diabolically difficult mid-term review’ recently on this blog, Gordon Peake asked...
Office of Development Effectiveness: praised, then abolished
The creation of the Office of Development Effectiveness was announced in Foreign Minister Alexander...
Eating the meat but keeping the bones – aid from Timor-Leste
In Timor-Leste, when people receive a gift, they are often advised to han isin sikat ruin (eat the...