This week’s release of the 2024 Aid Transparency Index — compiled biennially by Publish What You Fund from the data contained in its International Aid Transparency Initiative (IATI) — puts the transparency of donors’ development cooperation programs in a comparative context. The results are not...
The results of the Development Policy Centre’s 2024 public opinion survey about aid are in. Our surveys are designed to track attitudes to aid spending over time. To do this as reliably as possible we use the same (reputable) survey firm whenever we can, and we ask the same question each...
Australian aid At the 30th Australia-PNG Ministerial Forum, the two governments noted PNG’s budget repair efforts and committed to examine other ways, beyond budget support loans, to assist PNG’s fiscal reforms. Ministers highlighted the importance of PNG’s meeting its International Monetary...
I was struck on budget night last month by the contrast between, on the one hand, the Foreign Minister Penny Wong’s 2023 claim that Labor was rebuilding the aid program and the fact that, adjusting for inflation, the aid program is budgeted to flatline for the foreseeable future. Since then, we’ve...
Western donors have struggled to respond effectively to Myanmar’s burgeoning civil war, which has...
Our monthly update of news and analysis on aid and international development, with a focus on...
This month’s federal budget continued the seemingly inexorable concentration of Australia’s aid...
Foreign aid was increased by 4% over what had been projected last year to bring the 2024-25 aid...
Our monthly update of news and analysis on aid and international development, with a focus on...
Last night the Organisation for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD) released its...
