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Oct 5, 2024 · The Devpolicy Blog provides a platform for the best in aid and development analysis and commentary, with a focus on Australia, PNG and the Pacific.
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Established in September 2010, the Devpolicy Blog provides a platform for the best in aid and development analysis, research and policy comment, with global coverage and a focus on Australia, the Pacific and Papua New Guinea.
China’s Global Development Initiative: soft power play or serious ...
Last month, during his address to the UN General Assembly (UNGA), Chinese Foreign Ministry Wang Yi presented China’s Global Development Initiative (GDI) as a pathway to accelerate implementation of the 2030 agenda. In recent years, China has sought to communicate a more public development cooperation narrative, articulated through its three white papers (2011, 2014, 2021) and most recently ...
Australian aid: no looking back? - Devpolicy Blog from the …
Lisa Denney highlights one of the central themes of Australia’s 2023 International Development Policy in a recent and thoughtful contribution to this blog: its seeming ambivalence on the causes and consequences of change. As Denney observes, this is important given that development is all about change, how it happens and, in the case of aid, how outsiders might best support it.
Power shift? USAID and localisation - Devpolicy Blog from the ...
As well as leading the United States’ response to the multiple development and humanitarian crises unleashed by Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, COVID-19 and a disrupted global economy, USAID Administrator Samantha Power has identified three long-term priorities for her tenure at the helm of the world’s largest bilateral aid agency: making the organisation more accessible, more equitable ...
Development partnership plans: pitfalls and potential
A key element of the Australian government’s new international development policy, released in August last year, was the promise to revitalise the regional and country strategy process through new “development partnership plans” (DPPs) which will all be finalised in the course of 2024.. According to the performance and delivery framework …
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Nov 5, 2024 · The Devpolicy Blog is based at the Development Policy Centre, Crawford School of Public Policy, College of Asia and the Pacific, The Australian National University.
A better Australian statecraft for development policy
Disclosure. This blog draws on an AP4D report, What does it look like for Australia to use all tools of statecraft in practice, funded by the Australian Civil-Military Centre; and on the Development Intelligence Lab’s Pulse Check | Development Strategy and analysis, co-funded by the Development Intelligence Lab and the Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade.
The “polycrisis” and global development finance: options and …
Nov 11, 2022 · With a worsening hunger crisis spurred by food and fuel inflation, war in Europe, slowing global growth and rising debt distress, ongoing COVID-related supply chain disruptions, an unfolding climate change reckoning, and intensifying geopolitical fracturing, the notion of a “polycrisis” has well and truly entered the global lexicon.