2018 Australasian Aid Conference - Panel 4a - The aid apathy crisis
Unprecedented levels of need, biggest aid cuts ever, humanitarian catastrophe — all too familiar to hear about in the news, but does the average person care? There are more media outlets and informati...
1 Maalis 20181h 29min
2018 Australasian Aid Conference - Panel 3a - Adaptive programming in theory and in practice
This panel at the 2018 Australasian Aid Conference discussed the theory and practice of adaptive programming and how we can find ways to implement flexible programming within the context of an increas...
1 Maalis 20181h 28min
2018 Australasian Aid Conference - Plenary - Civil Society in Asian Development Cooperation
The role of non-state actors in Asian-led development cooperation has been little discussed. Many assume South-South cooperation is government-to-government and focused on infrastructure. However, Asi...
1 Maalis 20181h 30min
The social contract, preferences for redistribution, and tax morale
Taxation is central to the social contract between citizens and the state. Yet little research has explored the relationship in developing countries between individual attitudes towards the social con...
22 Tammi 20181h 9min
Women, peace and security: a new global index
Dr Jeni Klugman, Managing Director, Georgetown Institute for Women Peace and Security, Fellow at the Kennedy School of Government’s Women in Public Policy Program, Harvard University; Hon Dr Sharman S...
15 Joulu 20171h 10min
The Social Observatory: integrating the social sciences for adaptive practice
The Social Observatory (SO) is a unit in the World Bank’s Development Research Group. It has worked for seven years with a $5 billion portfolio of community-based livelihoods projects in India. This w...
15 Joulu 201738min
2017 Mitchell Oration - Development: towards 21st century approaches - Dr Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala
Are our current approaches to development cooperation fit for purpose to address contemporary challenges? How should development practice evolve to reflect 21st century priorities and knowledge? And h...
6 Joulu 20171h 19min
China and the United States as aid donors: past and future trajectories - Patrick Kilby
The United States and China have followed nearly parallel paths as providers of foreign aid over the past seven decades. Although both countries’ aid programs were ostensibly aimed at development, bot...
4 Joulu 20171h 1min
