Voice and agency: empowering women and girls for shared prosperity
Voice and Agency: empowering women and girls for shared prosperity is a major new report by the World Bank that shines a spotlight on the value of empowerment, the patterns of constraints that limit t...
3 Jun 20151h 42min
Securitisation of aid and NGOs post-9/11
In this public seminar, Dr Jude Howell, Professor of International Development at London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE), argued that the securitisation of NGOs post-9/11 has raised bo...
3 Jun 20151h
Poverty in Asia: a deeper look
Based on Key Indicators 2014, a flagship publication of the Asian Development Bank, this presentation argued that conventional wisdom on poverty measurement fails to consider significant challenges of...
3 Jun 201551min
Telling stories of and for Melanesian women: an interview with Amanda Donigi
Tess Newton Cain and Amanda Donigi, publisher of Stella magazine, met recently in Vanuatu. This is a recording of their conversation. Blog post available here: http://devpolicy.org/telling-stories-of-...
3 Jun 201522min
Putting our money where our mouths are? Donations to NGOs and support for foreign aid in Australia
When they are surveyed, Australians appear to be supportive of aid work. Yet beyond the presence of nominal, high-level support, little is known about the nature of their support for aid, or the type ...
3 Jun 201555min
Private sector partnerships in development: US approaches
In 2012, the Center for Strategic and International Studies (CSIS) convened the Executive Council on Development—a bipartisan group of leaders from government, business, nongovernmental organisations,...
3 Jun 201559min
Challenges and opportunities for women in Papua New Guinea
Women in Papua New Guinea are chronically under-represented in all levels of government and business and face barriers to achieving a tertiary education. Those who do succeed must navigate a male domi...
3 Jun 20151h 1min
Inequality: should developing countries be worried? An interview with Andrew Leigh MP
Jonathan Pryke sits down with Andrew Leigh, the Federal Member for Fraser and Shadow Assistant Treasurer. Blog post available here: http://devpolicy.org/inequality-should-developing-countries-be-worri...
3 Jun 201519min
