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Category - Aid effectiveness
Why has Peru been so badly hit by COVID-19?
COVID-19 has unveiled the strengths and weaknesses in the economic and political systems of...
Altruism, China and attitudes to aid
We highlighted in the first post of this series that even in the midst of the worst economic crisis...
Stuck in New Zealand: the experiences of Pacific seasonal workers
It has been a long, exhausting, and stressful season for many seasonal workers and employers...
Australians support the Pacific travel bubble
There has been a fair bit of discussion about a potential Pacific travel bubble. That’s the idea...
COVID-19 has not caused a fall in Australians’ support for aid
Have the past few months of economic hardship caused by COVID-19 made Australians more hostile to...
Can the UK avoid Australia’s integration errors?
The dissolution of the UK’s Department for International Development (DFID) is a strategic error...
Public aid performance reporting: could less be better?
One under-the-radar contribution of Australia’s COVID-19 Development Response Strategy is a new aid...
Why is aid less effective in the Pacific?
In our previous post we showed that Australian aid projects are less effective in the Pacific than...
Australia’s problem with Pacific aid
Although one of us (Terence) recently co-authored a report highlighting Australian aid transparency...