Australia’s foreign aid (Official Development Assistance or ODA) for 2025-26 is budgeted at $5.097 billion, a 2.7% increase ...

The continuing prohibition on girls’ education beyond Year 6 imposes a profound burden on Afghan society and the economy, ...

Facebook shutdown, tenuously linked to terrorism, raises serious constitutional, goverance and human rights issues, say Kabuni, Turia and Tarai.

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.

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.

World War II plunged Fred Fisk into the emerging field of ‘development’ in colonial Malaya. Feeling inadequate to the task, he looked to the 1950s literature – Amar Narain Agarwala, Sampat Pal Singh, ...

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.

Fred Fisk (1917-2009) was an Australian who stumbled into the emerging field of “development” during service as a colonial official in British Malaya. This was after the Second World War, with ...

The need for an affordable, clean, safe and efficient public transport system in Port Moresby is both pressing and widely recognised among residents. While numerous studies and reports have examined ...

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