Development Policy Centre staff and associates have used many methods to study Australian government aid. Richard Moore used qualitative interviews to gauge the impact of AusAID’s integration. Luke Levett Minihan and I undertook website content analysis to assess aid transparency. Matthew Dornan...
I recently enjoyed reading the memoirs of E.K. (Fred) Fisk, sometimes referred to as ANU’s first development economist, and the person who, based on his PNG work, came up with the idea of “subsistence affluence”. After compulsory retirement aged 65, Fisk turned to consulting in the Pacific. He...
Do Australia and New Zealand focus enough aid on Least Developed Countries? ‘Least Developed Country’ (LDC) is an official United Nations category denoting countries thought to be in most need of official development assistance and related help. Whether a country is considered an LDC depends on its...
On 17 October, New Zealand’s Labour party was re-elected in a landslide. The same election saw New Zealand First, the nationalist party that had been a linchpin in Labour’s coalition government, wiped out. As a result, Winston Peters, New Zealand First’s leader, is no longer...
Those who fail to learn from history are doomed to repeat it ― George Santayana Pacific aid...
Fiji, Samoa and Tonga are three Pacific countries that start their fiscal year about mid-way...
The first blog in this series looked at the economic damage being done by COVID-19 to the countries...
The economic consequences of COVID-19-induced lockdowns have permeated across the Pacific. In a...
