A competitive process for the ADB Presidency? ADB President Haruhiko Kuroda will step down in the...
Category - Aid effectiveness
February blog digest: Filling the analytical gap –...
February blogs posts were dominated by aid debates and discussions and that’s what I focus on here...
Key observations on the state of New Zealand’s aid strategy
The New Zealand Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Trade has released their ‘International Development...
Sector on the fiscal cliff
The objectives of the peak body for the Australian aid sector are quite radical – it exists not to...
Aid Buzz (Feb 22): Senate Estimates | IFAD lacks Coalition...
Our monthly round-up of Australian aid and development news. Senate Estimates recap The Senate’s...
Construction in educational development: – the ‘edifice complex’?
Indonesia is a major recipient of Australian investment in construction for education. Construction...
Note: Asylum-seeker costs—wrong questions, wrong people
In the course of last week’s Additional Estimates hearings, senators directed quite a few questions...
That $375 million for asylum seekers: where will it go?
On Monday 11 February, during Senate Estimates hearings, Senator Michaelia Cash asked the...
How Australia’s aid program is helping to pay the asylum-seeker...
Six weeks after Foreign Minister Bob Carr announced that $375 million would be reallocated within...
AusAID’s first Annual Review of Aid Effectiveness (part 3): some...
In previous posts (here and here), we’ve given our general reaction to AusAID’s first Annual Review...