Stephen Howes

Stephen Howes
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Stephen Howes is a Professor of Economics at the Crawford School of Public Policy at the Australian National University. He is the Director of the Development Policy Centre, He served as Director of the International and Development Economics program of the Crawford School from 2009 to 2014.

Prior to joining the Crawford School in 2009, Stephen was Chief Economist at the Australian Agency for International Development. He worked from 1994 to 2005 at the World Bank, first in Washington and then in Delhi, where he was Lead Economist for India. In 2008, he worked on the Garnaut Review on Climate Change, where he managed the Review’s international work stream.

Stephen also serves as a Board Member for CARE Australia, where he chairs the Program and Operations Committee. He is also Chair of Femili PNG, an NGO that supports survivors of family and sexual violence in Papua New Guinea.

He has previously served on the Board of the Pacific Institute of Public Policy, and on the Advisory Council of the Asian Development Bank Institute.

In 2005, while working for AusAID, Stephen was a member of the three-person Core Group whose report formed the basis for the 2006 Australian Aid White Paper. In 2010-11, Stephen was a member of the five-person panel who wrote the Independent Review of [Australian] Aid Effectiveness. In 2016, he served as a member of the Australia-Pacific Technical College Design Reference Group.

Questions about Australian aid to fund the Pacific Games
Questions about Australian aid to fund the Pacific Games
Australia is backing a sports tournament over urgent development needs, and doing so may break international aid rules.
Office of Development Effectiveness: Praised, then abolished
Office of Development Effectiveness: Praised, then abolished
Two well-regarded evaluation bodies have been quietly scrapped. Why?
Cry the beloved world
Cry the beloved world
As the next wave of Covid-19 bears down on developing nations, is there a chance they can avoid the worst?
Stepping up in the Pacific at the expense of Pakistani women and girls
Stepping up in the Pacific at the expense of Pakistani women and girls
Cutting aid has a cost – and Australia should be embarrassed to take aid from other countries to give it to the Pacific.
We already have an agricultural visa
We already have an agricultural visa
Existing Pacific and Timor Leste programs already meet the labour needs of Australian farms – so why change?
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