- New research from the Center for International Forestry Research on the Africa-China timber trade highlights the array of actors involved and the implications for policy.
- Three long views on life with rising seas.
- Budget 2014: the end of an aid era? Lowy Institute analysts Jenny Hayward-Jones, Phillippa Brant and Alex Oliver look at the federal Budget.
- The World Bank's International Development Association (IDA) 17th replenishment will commence lending from July. Pledges were lower than the last time, but include a US$1 billion loan from China.
- The UK Department for International Development's use of private sector development as an aid strategy.
- 'I was just trying to help': A Planet Money podcast reviewing whether giving poor people in developing countries cash is more effective than giving aid:
Aid & development links: World Bank, forestry, rising seas, aid vs cash and more
Published 19 May 2014
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