Better than cash: Ruth Goodwin-Groen on how digital payments promote safety, transparency and inclusiveness
Robin Davies speaks with Dr Ruth Goodwin-Groen, an Australian financial inclusion specialist who recently stepped down from her position as founding Managing Director of the Better than Cash Alliance,...
28 Jul 202442min
The gains and pains of working away from home
Development Policy Centre Deputy Director Ryan Edwards and Dung Doan, an Economist in the World Bank's Social Protection and Jobs team, discuss the Pacific Labour Mobility Survey, which was conducted ...
7 Jul 202429min
Helder Lopes on governing Timor-Leste’s financial sector
Helder Lopes, Governor of Timor-Leste’s Central Bank, spoke with Robin Davies when he visited Australia in May 2024 under the Special Visits Program of the Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade.The ...
14 Jun 202433min
MSF’s Dr Christos Christou on the shrinking of the humanitarian space
Dr Christos Christou, International President of Médecins sans Frontières (MSF), spoke with Robin Davies when he visited Canberra to meet senior government figures and speak at both the National Press...
30 Mai 202435min
2024 aid budget analysis
On 14 May 2024, the Australian government delivered its first budget since the release of the 2023 international development policy and DFAT’s review of development finance. Professor Stephen Howes an...
17 Mai 202426min
IFAD and smallholder agriculture in the Asia-Pacific
Alvaro Lario, President of the International Fund for Agricultural Development, together with his colleague Ron Hartman, spoke with Robin Davies when they visited Australia in March 2024 to encourage ...
2 Mai 202436min
Can the world’s governments agree on a better framework for pandemic response?
Helen Clark sat down with Robin Davies on her March 2024 visit to the Australian National University to talk about whether governments and global institutions are ready to change the way they respond ...
18 Apr 202429min
2021 aid budget breakfast
On the eve of the 2021–22 Federal Budget, Stephen Howes set out three tests for Australia’s aid budget: Will there be any further increases in aid next year? Will the government sustain any aid increa...
20 Mai 202157min
