John Gibson on two decades of poverty in PNG
Papua New Guinea recently completed its second national household consumption survey, potentially enabling poverty comparisons with baseline estimates from 14 years earlier. But the methods used by th...
1 Kesä 20151h 22min
Francois Bourguignon On Globalisation And Inequality
Two important trend reversals have taken place in global inequality over the last 25 years: the inequality between countries has started to decrease after two centuries of steady increase and the ineq...
1 Kesä 20151h 11min
Disability-inclusive development forum
People with disability are among the poorest and most marginalised in developing countries. One estimate is that there are one billion people with disability worldwide, including 20% of the world’s po...
1 Kesä 20151h 33min
David Booth - business, politics and the state in Africa - challenging the orthodoxies
Having achieved historically unprecedented economic growth over recent years, African countries now face the challenge of structurally transforming their economies. However, the politics of how to do ...
1 Kesä 201559min
Ume Wainetti on combatting family and sexual violence in PNG
Ume Wainetti is National Coordinator of the PNG Family and Sexual Violence Action Committee (FSVAC), the body charged with coordinating the national response to gender-based violence.She has years of ...
1 Kesä 201558min
Paul Collier on how the private sector can help the bottom billion
In his universally acclaimed and award-winning book The Bottom Billion, Paul Collier argues that fifty failed states-home to the poorest one billion people on earth-pose the central challenge of the d...
1 Kesä 20151h 12min
2013 aid budget breakfast
The annual aid budget is the most important event for the aid sector. And it is a time when the entire sector converges on Canberra for the budget lock up. Devpolicy seized this opportunity to host a ...
1 Kesä 20151h 22min
Pacific conversations - interview with Sina Retzlaff
Devpolicy Research Associate Tess Newton Cain sits down with Sina Retzlaff, Samoa country representative for the Pacific Leadership Program. A full transcript is available here: http://devpolicy.org/p...
1 Kesä 201530min
