Yesterday, I set down on Twitter three tests by which I said I would judge Australia’s 2021-22 aid budget. They were: Will there be any further increases in aid next year? Will the government sustain any aid increases beyond this year and next? Will DFAT provide an estimate of this year’s and next...
New OECD aid data for 2020, from the organisation’s Development Assistance Committee or DAC, shows that Australia’s aid performance has never been worse in global terms. We started the decade above the global aid average: in 2011, our aid-to-income ratio (the measure of aid generosity) was 0.34% of...
If you’re an aid NGO, government money is tempting. It affords the chance to help more people, or to help people more. It can free you from the hardscrabble work of fundraising. But government funding may come at a cost: influence. Overtly or subtly, government money may start shaping where you...
In a recent blog I argued that the Australian government gives aid to too many countries. It was an easy post to research. Every year Australia, alongside other OECD government donors, tells the OECD where it spends its aid, and what it spends it on. It’s a very useful transparency tool. Globally...
As my coauthors and I explained in our recent report on aid flows, the Australian government...
During the first term of the current Coalition government, aid was slashed. Adjusting for...
Development Policy Centre staff and associates have used many methods to study Australian...
Do Australia and New Zealand focus enough aid on Least Developed Countries? ‘Least Developed...
PACER Plus – a regional trade agreement between Australia, New Zealand and Pacific island countries...
Aid: wealthier countries giving money to less fortunate ones for the sake of improving...
