In the era of COVID-19, development organisations from the International Institute for Environment...
Category - Global aid issues
Eating the meat but keeping the bones – aid from Timor-Leste
In Timor-Leste, when people receive a gift, they are often advised to han isin sikat ruin (eat the...
Poverty in China: a personal encounter – part two
In 2019, I worked in Liangshan, one of the poorest regions in China, as a primary school teacher...
Poverty in China: a personal encounter – part one
In 2019 I lived in Liangshan, one of the poorest regions in China, and worked as a primary school...
COVID-19 and violence against children
Lockdowns across the world have pushed people into the privacy of their homes, unintentionally...
Australia slashes World Bank funding – falls from 12th to 18th
As one of the World Bank’s five development financing agencies, the International Development...
US foreign policy and COVID-19: a Timorese perspective
President Trump’s lack of leadership in the international fight against COVID-19, taken to the...
Trilateral development cooperation: the cases of China and Brazil
Trilateral (or triangular as some prefer to call it) cooperation has become one of the latest...
COVID and disability
As COVID-19 continues to disrupt life as we know it, and its impacts are felt far and wide across...
COVID-19: three ways to support women, girls and vulnerable...
The COVID-19 pandemic is now reaching parts of the world already experiencing significant...