Are the Asia and Pacific small states different from other small states
The small states of the Asia and Pacific region face unique challenges in raising their growth potential and living standards relative to other small states due to their small populations, geographica...
2 Jun 20151h 27min
The challenges of aid dependency and economics for Africa and the Pacific
After decades of poor economic performance, Africa is doing much better, with higher economic growth. Why? What role did aid play? And what are the lessons for the Pacific? Jim Adams knows both Africa...
2 Jun 20151h 2min
Are international organisations up to the challenge of providing global public goods for development
The most serious problems that developing countries face are increasingly international in nature. Climate change, water scarcity, communicable diseases, food insecurity and the depletion of forests a...
2 Jun 20151h 21min
Pacific Conversations with Katy Le Roy
Tess Newton Cain sits down with Katy Leroy, a constitutional lawyer who has lived on Nauru for seven years. Until very recently she was Parliamentary Counsel for Nauru with responsibility for drafting...
2 Jun 201524min
Tapping the market - opportunities for domestic investments in WASH
Throughout the developing world, millions of people lack access to safe water and improved sanitation, which has high social and economic costs. The World Bank’s Water and Sanitation Program (WSP) has...
2 Jun 201559min
An interview with Duncan Green
Oxfam's Duncan Green speaks with Devpolicy's Associate Director Robin Davies about the realities of doing development in complex systems. Devpolicy Talks is the podcast of the Australian National Univ...
2 Jun 20156min
Duncan Green - How do we plan, campaign and work in development
How do we plan, campaign and work in development when we don’t know what is going to happen and we don’t know what solutions will work? Aid professionals know that real life has a way of ignoring our ...
2 Jun 201550min
Goals for people - a review of post-2015 proposals, and some suggestions
Until recently, discussions on a new post-2015 framework to succeed the Millennium Development Goals mostly revolved around general principles or else very particular features of a possible landscape....
2 Jun 20151h 3min
