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Greeting the arrival of an Australian funded COVID-19 support package, Solomon Islands

9 December 2021

Foreign aid set to be cut next year to below pre-pandemic levels

by Stephen Howes

Australian Parliament House (Jerry Skinner-Flickr)

18 November 2021

A new era for Australian aid: the ‘cautious consensus’

by Benjamin Day and Tamas Wells

Photograph of two Kina Bank automatic teller machines in a Port Moresby shopping centre

15 September 2021

Kina’s Westpac offer finally rejected – what’s next?

by Dek Joe Sum

25 August 2021

Best of the Development Policy Blog 2012

by Karen Downing

A photograph of a cream coloured building that was partially destroyed by a tsunami in 2004. Large letters hand-written on the walls say "Pemuk rumahini masih hidup. Tsunami 26 Des 2004. Ingat! Kita semua pasti mati." A red and white flag flies on the roof.

13 August 2021

Net public donations

by Stephen Howes and Terence Wood

A photo of Prime Minister Hon. James Marape launching PNG's Infrastructure Development Programme in August 2020

23 July 2021

PNG just ran its highest budget deficit ever – but that’s a good thing

by Rohan Fox and Stephen Howes

Photograph of Economy Minister Aiyaz Sayed-Khaiyum who delivered the 2021-2022 Fiji National Budget

22 July 2021

Fiji’s new budget: significant fiscal challenges

by Neelesh Gounder

Aerial view of Lae, Morobe, Papua New Guinea

2 July 2021

Australia moves closer to a DFI

by Stephen Howes

Anti-Corruption Act 2018

10 June 2021

Solomon Islands ICAC: how did it happen?

by Grant Walton

Why New Zealand’s aid budget was better, and worse, than Australia’s

28 May 2021

Why New Zealand’s aid budget was better, and worse, than Australia’s

by Terence Wood

The Treasurer and Minister for International Development looking over the 2021 budget papers

21 May 2021

Development assistance in the news: don’t mention the aid budget

by Stephen Howes

18 May 2021

Australian aid cuts at odds with changing public opinion

by Terence Wood and Ryan Edwards

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