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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. As of July 2024, Devpolicy has published more than 4,300 posts from more than 1,500 contributors.
Will free agency fix PALM? - Devpolicy Blog from the …
16 hours ago · However, there would be some serious downsides to introducing free agency. First, free agency would reduce demand for long-term PALM employees just as it would for short-term ones. If an employer cannot be sure that workers will stay with them, they will be less willing to incur the substantial upfront costs involved in hiring PALM workers.
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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 ...
Best of the blog 2021 - Devpolicy Blog from the Development Policy Centre
Dec 17, 2021 · We close the blog for the year on Wednesday 22 December, and resume on Monday 10 January 2022. Thank you to everyone who has written for, read, commented on, edited, promoted and supported the Devpolicy Blog in 2021. We wish you a restful holiday. Here’s a chance to recap the year with a listing of some of our favourite and most popular blogs ...
Origins, evolution and future of global development cooperation
Development cooperation is one of the master narratives of Cold War geopolitics and geoeconomics, as highlighted by the recent book, Origins, Evolution and Future of Global Development Cooperation: The Role of the Development Assistance Committee.Gerardo Bracho – a veteran development expert and one of the book’s editors and contributors – argues that official development cooperation ...
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.
Towards a new development policy
As you know – the new Australian Government is designing a new development policy. The policy will be finalised in the first half of next year. Without getting ahead of the careful work developing the new policy, I’d like to flag some of the things I think we may want to do differently. I’d like to find a way to embed a First Nations ...
Enough is enough: audaciously decolonising the development and ...
This is an edited extract of the 2022 Mitchell Oration given at the Australasian AID Conference in Canberra in November.. I have been working in the space of ending violence against women and girls for the last 18 years in Tonga. This year, I experienced something I had experienced many times before but not to the extent that it reached this year, it was the tipping point.