After a disastrous first couple of decades following independence in 1968, Nauru turned its economic fortunes around in the ...

Gordon Peake on Australia's branded aid merchandise in the Pacific and whether new Commonwealth restrictions will curb the ...

This post summarises a research dissertation on the same topic. In May 2024, a landslide in Enga Province buried more than 2,000 people and displaced an estimated 1,680 others. Both Prime Minister ...

Chair: Kirsten Bishop, Assistant Secretary, Development Performance and Advisory Services Branch, Development Effectiveness and Enabling Division, Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade The Devpolicy ...

Kamalini Lokuge, Medical Epidemiologist, National Centre for Epidemiology and Population Health, ANU The Devpolicy Blog is based at the Development Policy Centre, Crawford School of Public Policy, ...

The 2023 Australasian AID Conference was held at The Australian National University in Canberra, Australia on 5-7 December. The Devpolicy Blog is based at the Development Policy Centre, Crawford ...

Australian and international aid agencies have launched emergency appeals in response to the Venezuela earthquake. So far, the disaster has resulted in over 1,400 deaths, with tens of thousands of ...

Survey data suggest that in Port Moresby (POM), feeding an entire household a nutritious diet for a single day requires 45% of a low-skill worker’s daily wage. The healthy diet burden eases somewhat ...

Late last year, at the Australasian Aid and International Development Conference at the Australian National University, I attended a session titled “Whose question, whose answer? Participatory design ...

We’ve just received the results back from our latest poll of Australians’ attitudes to aid. The results were simultaneously disappointing, all too predictable and surprising. Let’s start with ...

During her widely reported appearance at the National Press Club last week, One Nation leader Pauline Hanson was asked (at 58:06) about her views on Australian foreign aid spending in the context of ...

What’s in a name? Can a name drive peace? I recently came across a scholar with a fascinating focus: how personal naming practices can be used to promote peace. There is a broad literature on names as ...