Devpolicy Talks

Decades of conflict have eroded the physical and social fabric of Afghanistan, with severe impacts on the lives of children. Kerry Boland, consultant to the United Nations Children’s Fund (UNICEF) and...

2 Jun 201558min

Australia’s aid program has increased massively over the last decade, but its future is unclear, and aid policy has become controversial. The Labor Government has repeatedly delayed its target to lift...

2 Jun 20151h 33min

Since the mid-1990s, economic growth rates in large and populous middle-income countries have substantially outpaced those in OECD countries. This has reshaped the global economy and favoured converge...

2 Jun 201558min

Aid agencies increasingly stress the importance of value for money, but what does this mean, and might a managerial focus on results actually undermine aid effectiveness, or simply result in aid confu...

2 Jun 201552min

Over the past decade, the world has witnessed a digital revolution and its impacts have not been limited to those living in wealthy countries. By 2014, it is predicted there will be more active mobile...

2 Jun 20151h 21min

Tess Newton Cain sits down with Tara Chetty program director at the FIji Women's Rights Movements. A full transcript of the interview is available here: http://devpolicy.org/pacific-conversations/5.%2...

2 Jun 201521min

Tess Newton Cain sits down with Francis Herman, Program Manager of the regional Pacific Media Assistance program (PACMAS) and a highly experienced media professional to give his assessment of the medi...

2 Jun 201535min

The end of official development assistance (ODA) has been confidently predicted for decades.But a funny thing happened at the end of the 90s. A set of development targets identified by the OECD mutate...

2 Jun 201557min