Grace Stanhope
Research Associate, Southeast Asia Aid Map
Areas of expertise
Foreign aid, global development finance
Biography
Publications
Grace Stanhope is a Research Associate in the Lowy Institute’s Indo-Pacific Development Centre working on the Southeast Asia Aid Map, a tool that tracks and analyses foreign aid and development finance flows to Southeast Asia from 2015 onwards.
Grace joined the Lowy Institute from the Australian Strategic Policy Institute in 2023 and previously worked as a sub-editor in the Federal Parliamentary Press Gallery. She holds a Bachelor of Politics, Philosophy and Economics and a Bachelor of Development Studies from the Australian National University.
Reports
Southeast Asia Aid Map 2024 - Key Findings Report
The Southeast Asia Aid Map — launched by the Lowy Institute in 2023 — is a comprehensive database tracking official development finance (ODF) flows in Southeast Asia.This 2024 Key…
2024 Southeast Asia Aid Map: Warning signs for the region
Declining levels of international financial support, especially for the clean energy transition, are cause for alarm.
Interactives
Southeast Asia Aid Map 2024
The second edition of the Southeast Asia Aid Map, encompassing the period from 2015 to 2022, includes comprehensive data on more than 120,000 projects carried out by 107…
China’s contributions are a blind spot in global climate finance
Accounting for money from China and other non-traditional donors is vital to set a meaningful global target to assist developing countries.
Australia is increasingly spending around, not on, development
Transparency could be the cost of the semi-commercialisation of Australia’s international development efforts.
The Translator: The nomenclature of foreign aid
A series in which experts explain the sometimes baffling jargon of international affairs.
Mind the gap: China’s megaproject promises fall short of reality in Southeast Asia
Debt, delay and deteriorating ties between China and its infrastructure partners have led some to go it alone.
A multilateral bank for the Indo-Pacific?
The region needs a dedicated bank that enhances economic security in the pursuit of climate and development goals.
