Submission to Joint Standing Committee Inquiry into the role of the private sector in promoting economic growth and reducing poverty in the Indo-Pacific region

By Robin Davies and Margaret Callan

May 2014

On 4 February 2014, the Minister for Foreign Affairs, the Hon Julie Bishop MP, referred The role of the private sector in promoting economic growth and reducing poverty in the Indo-Pacific region to the Joint Standing Committee on Foreign Affairs, Defence and Trade for inquiry and report. This is Devpolicy’s submission to the review authored by Robin Davies and Margaret Callan. The Committee tabled its report on 22 June 2015.

Davies, R. & Callan, M. 2014, Submission to Joint Standing Committee Inquiry into the role of the private sector in promoting economic growth and reducing poverty in the Indo-Pacific region, Development Policy Centre, Crawford School of Public Policy, Australian National University, Canberra.

Karen Downing

Karen Downing is Research Communications Coordinator at the Development Policy Centre.