The World Bank’s Vice President for South Asia, Isabel Guerrero, was recently in Canberra for...
Category - Aid effectiveness
Australian aid to fragile states – the success story of Zimbabwe
The Independent Review of Aid Effectiveness called for the Australian government to put particular...
Corporate challenges to Australian aid effectiveness in Indonesia
As a part of the Independent Review of Aid Effectiveness the Panel commissioned several background...
Debating Australian Education Aid to Indonesia
“It’s time for the debate over the aid program to move on”, wrote Stephen Howes in a...
Development Buzz (September 22): Humanitarian aid | Busan 2011 |...
The humanitarian crisis in the Horn of Africa The crisis in the Horn of Africa worsens, with UN...
Tomorrow’s health solutions are as important as today’s
Too often, leading countries like Australia, with very strong international aid programs, miss a...
Data dumping for development: Turning stats into stories
The World Bank’s open data policy recently celebrated its first anniversary. The New York...
The World Bank Doing Business Rankings: Do they really matter...
A large body of literature argues that foreign direct investment (FDI) promotes economic growth...
Sri Mulyani Indrawati: rockstar, and next World Bank president?
Last month, Sri Mulyani, Managing Director at the World Bank and former Indonesian Finance...
Challenges for the final 1% until there’s no polio in the...
In his post on the eradication of polio, Jonathan Pryke discusses the long struggle that has led to...