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Category - Australian development policy
A new era for Australian aid: the ‘cautious consensus’
In the aftermath of the onset of COVID-19, a new political consensus is forming around Australia’s...
Australia moves closer to a DFI
Going back almost a decade now, several prominent national and international development thinkers...
PACER Plus: a third view
PACER Plus – a regional trade agreement between Australia, New Zealand and Pacific island countries...
Australia leaves Fiji to flounder
Fiji’s fiscal year begins in August, and the government brought down its 2020-21 budget in July...
Australia slashes World Bank funding – falls from 12th to 18th
As one of the World Bank’s five development financing agencies, the International Development...
The futility of aid integration
The UK’s decision to merge the Department for International Development (DFID) with the Foreign and...
Australian aid in five years’ time
In his blog of 4 June, Stephen Howes said that there was “a lot to like” about DFAT’s new...
DFID’s integration: lessons from Australia and New Zealand
When Boris Johnson announced the integration of the Department for International Development (DFID)...
Increasing the social impact of our ODA for the Australian...
It is accepted development best practice to procure goods and services locally wherever possible in...