Programs & Projects
![The Indo-Pacific Development Centre logo](https://www.lowyinstitute.org/sites/default/files/2023-07/IPDC-logo-dark.png)
The Indo-Pacific Development Centre
The Indo-Pacific Development Centre (IPDC) is a policy research centre at the Lowy Institute dedicated to generating fresh policy insights and ideas on the most pressing economic development issues in the Indo-Pacific region. The IPDC focuses on key challenges facing emerging and developing economies in Southeast Asia, the Pacific Islands, and South Asia as well as the role of more advanced Indo-Pacific economies such as Australia, the United States, Japan, China, and others in helping shape the future economic development of the region.
The work of the IPDC is organised around six key themes:
- Post-Covid recovery, growth and development
- Climate finance and decarbonising development
- Technology and the digital economy
- Globalisation and regional integration
- The future of international development finance
- Geoeconomics and the intersection of development and security
As part of its development finance pillar, the IPDC houses the Lowy Institute’s Pacific Aid Map, a digital interactive that tracks all official development finance flows to the Pacific region.
The IPDC has been established with the support of multi-year funding from the Australian Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade.
Featured projects
![Southeast Asia Aid Map](https://www.lowyinstitute.org/sites/default/files/styles/research_listing/public/2023-05/seamap-1920x1080.jpg?h=d1cb525d&itok=__zx53Bi)
![Pacific Aid Map 2022](https://www.lowyinstitute.org/sites/default/files/styles/research_listing/public/2022-10/pam-5-1920x1080.jpg?h=d1cb525d&itok=nvDboxcb)
![It’s no surprise Australia shrugged off China’s campaign of trade coercion](https://www.lowyinstitute.org/sites/default/files/styles/expert_publications/public/2023-07/GettyImages-1288135711.jpg?itok=Sbom-__U)
![Understanding “loss and damage” from climate change across the Indo-Pacific](https://www.lowyinstitute.org/sites/default/files/styles/expert_publications/public/2023-07/GettyImages-1230148567-1.jpg?itok=v9VvIKcj)
![Setting the standard: An important step on the path to net zero emissions](https://www.lowyinstitute.org/sites/default/files/styles/expert_publications/public/2023-07/GettyImages-1061124632.jpg?itok=RcINb3Lb)
![Scrapping IMF surcharges is key to cutting debt burden on distressed nations](https://www.lowyinstitute.org/sites/default/files/styles/expert_publications/public/2023-07/GettyImages-1215365176.jpg?itok=TV5m_gfm)
![Paris climate summit: A new global financing pact takes shape](https://www.lowyinstitute.org/sites/default/files/styles/expert_publications/public/2023-07/GettyImages-1258960475.jpg?itok=PQ2gwZkn)
![Reforming Australia’s trading system – a long hard slog but worth the effort](https://www.lowyinstitute.org/sites/default/files/styles/expert_publications/public/2023-07/GettyImages-1233225245.jpg?itok=MyDCpU1-)
![Jokowi’s visit to Australia is about much more than electric vehicles](https://www.lowyinstitute.org/sites/default/files/styles/expert_publications/public/2023-07/GettyImages-1258542337.jpg?itok=o5PXQbgf)
![Replenishing the Green Climate Fund](https://www.lowyinstitute.org/sites/default/files/styles/expert_publications/public/2023-06/GCF.jpg?itok=bHRgnDTa)
![The end of the neo-liberal order?](https://www.lowyinstitute.org/sites/default/files/styles/expert_publications/public/2023-06/%2450%20notes%20comp.jpg?itok=qoC5o1xB)
![Southeast Asia Aid Map - Key Findings Report](https://www.lowyinstitute.org/sites/default/files/styles/expert_publications/public/2023-06/seamap-report-1920x1080.jpg?itok=tjhPZ8Bg)