The recent ODE evaluation of the contribution made by Australia Awards scholarships to women’s...
Category - Australian aid
The distortion of MDR-TB in Papua New Guinea
A recently published commentary in the Lancet Respiratory Medicine about the epidemic of multi-drug...
Jackson’s last gasp: global programs in Australia’s aid budget
Australia’s 2016 aid budget likely represented an acceleration of a decade-long trend away...
Jackson’s last gasp: bilateral aid in Australia’s 2016 budget
At first glance, Australia’s 2016 aid budget appears to have protected country programs from the...
The budget repair that wasn’t: implications for the aid...
We’ve had three years of talk about “budget emergency” and a massive “debt and deficit” problem...
The way we were: mean and meaner still
One practical way to think about how generous we are as a nation to the world’s poor is to compare...
Scaled down. The last of the aid cuts?
We’ve got used to aid cuts. Aid has been reduced in real terms every year since 2012. Last year’s...
Continuity with change: country allocations in the 2016-17 budget
The 2016-17 budget was described last night by Ross Gittins, the economics editor for the Sydney...
Health and education bear the brunt of the last budget’s aid...
As we gear up for a forecast $200-million-plus of aid cuts in today’s budget, it is timely to...
The importance of developing new and improved vaccines
This week marks World Immunisation Week. Here in Australia the attention is likely to be on how we...