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Category - Aid effectiveness
Literacy in the Pacific: in danger of being sidelined?
The Pacific is a crowded policy space – inevitable given the wide range of challenges facing...
Aid to the Pacific is the least value for money
Late last year the Australian government pulled all of its bilateral aid money out of Pakistan...
NGO donations – winners and losers since 2000
[UPDATE: This blog was corrected on 27/2/2020 to correct an error in inflation calculations. The...
How trade unions explain the development of two-party systems in...
The absence of party system institutionalisation in the independent Pacific has puzzled scholars...
Two bad decades for three big debates in international...
Does foreign aid work? Are free markets the best path to better lives? Is globalisation good or bad...
The donor neo-colonialist complex (II)
Cloistered by inequality Protected by accident of birth Bestowed the gift of privilege Blinded by...
Hope, gains and progress in preventing violence against women...
I have been working to address violence against women and girls across the world for over 15 years...
WASH services critical to curbing antibiotic ‘quick fix’
The rise of resistant bacteria poses a global threat that could lead to the simplest of injuries...
From purposeful to meaningful adaptive programming: how about...
Adaptive programming is de rigueur. Everyone’s into it. It’s been this way for some time. Yet not...