Australian Foreign Aid
Aid and development links: South Sudan, cash transfers, philanthropy, and more
World Bank member countries have pledged $75 billion in lending to the world’s poorest countries over the next three years. This amount is 50% more than what was committed…
Aid and development links: The war on poverty, UN apologises, education intervention and more
William Easterly writes for the New York Review of Books about why it is time for the war on poverty to separate itself from the war on terror (ungated version here.) …
Aid and development links: India's cash chaos, controlled trials under fire and more
The chaos caused by India’s sudden ban on high-end bank notes that represent 86% of all cash in circulation continues. The Economist warns that 'it could, in fact, turn out to be…
Aid & development links: COP 22, trading in cash, Africans on China and more
COP 22 is underway in Marrakech. Carbon Brief provides a primer for what the latest UN Climate Change Conference expects to achieve.Despite concerns that it might back out,…
Aid & development links: Unskilled migrants, security partnerships, UN peacekeepers and more
A damning report from the UN on its South Sudanese peacekeeping force has resulted in the sacking of their Kenyan commander, Johnson Mogoa Kimani Ondieki. Kenya has responded by…
Aid & development links: Poverty, tractors, Wonder Woman and more
The Economist discusses why the world should be both encouraged and embarrassed by the latest global poverty figures. It highlights that, were it somehow possible to transfer the…
Aid & development links: Happiness Report, Australian aid budget, Venezuela's two-day work week and more
By Chloe Hickey-Jones, an intern in the Institute's Melanesia Program.
The World Happiness Report for 2016 has been released. Australia is ranked in the top 10. Check it out here…
Australian aid tumbled in 2015
With the first Turnbull Government budget this week, it is important to take stock of the impact the Coalition government has had to date on Australia's aid program.
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Polling
2015 Lowy Institute polling: Attitudes to Australia’s aid program
A majority of Australians of voting age are in favour of the recent budget cuts to Australia’s overseas aid to developing countries.
Alex Oliver
Commentary
Don't turn away from Vanuatu's destruction
Don't turn away from Vanuatu's destructionJenny Hayward-JonesABC The Drum17 March 2015Please click here for the online text.Jenny Hayward-Jones