Earlier this month I wrote about the improvements of data transparency of AusAID and teased out the...
Category - Aid effectiveness
Challenges in accessing AusAID’s research
Belinda Thompson, a PhD student at ANU, has written about the challenges she has faced in accessing...
NCDs, WHA 66 and the international development agenda
From May 20 to 28 the World Health Assembly (WHA), the WHO’s decision-making body, convened in...
Straight talking from China: lessons for OECD donors
‘All animals are equal, but some animals are more equal than others’ (George Orwell...
Helen Hughes
Helen came to The Australian National University in 1983, a whirlwind of ideas and action. She was...
June news: UPNG VC to keynote Pacific and PNG Update | Annual...
Pacific and PNG Update 2013 June 27-28 Hedley Bull Lecture Theatre 1, Ground Floor, Hedley Bull...
We have a problem with food
It seems we have a problem with food. Some people eat too much and some people eat too little. This...
The stories aid could tell
There is no shortage of aid fiction. It’s there in the denunciations of those who say aid does more...
SWEDOW cows and rotting apricots: bad food aid proposals gaining...
Just as the US is pushing to reform its long criticised food aid program, Queensland graziers and...
Time for a new approach to improving governance in PNG? Try...
In his insightful blog post of January 24 this year, which provoked a lively on-line discussion...