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Development as a tool of statecraft - Devpolicy Blog from the ...
Cameron Hill described Australia’s new development policy as Labor’s turn to statecraft on this blog – referencing the policy’s explicit identification of development as “one of our tools of statecraft”. In addition, he cited remarks at the launch from Foreign Minister Penny Wong on the need “to deploy all of our national power – all tools of statecraft”, and from Minister ...
Line-by-line: is New Zealand aid set to decline?
As you can see, according to the last budget, New Zealand aid spending is set to plunge in coming years. If budget night figures are correct, taking inflation into account, by 2027 New Zealand aid spending will have fallen about 35%, a large enough decline to leave even former Australian Prime Minister Tony Abbott envious.
A new climate finance goal could unlock ambition and fairness
The big-ticket item at the United Nations Climate Change Conference (COP29) being held in Baku, Azerbaijan, in November this year will be the development of a new climate finance goal for funding to developing countries — the New Collective Quantified Goal on Climate Finance (NCQG). However, weeks out from COP29, NCQG negotiations are in a perilous state: deadlocked over the scale of the ...
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 ...
The “polycrisis” and global development finance: options and …
Nov 11, 2022 · Source: A Tooze, Chartbook #130: Defining polycrisis – from crisis pictures to the crisis matrix. In response, the last six months have seen an intensified focus on a range of proposals to reform the international development finance architecture in ways that might alleviate some of the worst effects of the multiple global shocks for low- …
Labor promises not to cut aid - Devpolicy Blog from the …
Labor delivered a modest increase in foreign aid in October last year.In this budget, as with the last, aid falls over the forward estimates, after adjusting for inflation, this time from $4.8 billion in 2023-24 to $4.7 billion in 2025-26.
October 2022 aid news - Devpolicy Blog from the Development …
Our monthly update of news and analysis on aid and international development, with a focus on Australian aid. Australian aid. The Albanese government delivered its first aid budget on 25 October.