With burgeoning need and an aid system that is failing to cope, what meaning does ‘resilience’ have?
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Uncertainty over aid and trade will accompany new power struggles between Britain and the Commonwealth.
Calls to stop division between emergency and development aid will be heard at UN’s first ever humanitarian summit.
Protecting humanitarian workers requires an understanding of their individual situation, not broad assumptions.
A reduced aid budget equates to the forsaking of real opportunities in foreign policy terms. In the long term, this could make the savings look miniscule compared to opportunity costs.
In the humanitarian aid and development sector, local staff are paid less and receive fewer benefits than their expatriate colleagues, even when they do similar work and have similar qualifications.
Much international aid fails to achieve its ends because the technology employed is not “appropriate” to its intended environment or culture. This needs to change.
With US$60 billion in new deals announced, Beijing might look like it has the continent wrapped up.
Do companies really mean it when they talk about being socially responsible? Judging by their mission statements and homepages, it seems increasingly that resources firms do, but many retailers don’t.
How a political theory became a deadly reality for aid groups.
Malawi appears to have learnt nothing from the biggest state corruption scandal that rocked the country two years ago, leading to donors withdrawing their support. The same conditions still remain.
I recently noticed a tweet from @CareersatBAT about how British American Tobacco South Africa had packed 200,000 meals of donated food for the Million Meal Challenge being run by Stop Hunger Now Southern…
It’s not a surprise that development aid frees up money for countries to spend on defence budgets. Why is the UK so shocked by its own policies?
Australia has cut aid to Indonesia by 40%. That may cause diplomatic displeasure, but the country has restructured its development programs in recent years to be less dependent on foreign money.
Foreign aid will fall to close to 90 cents in every A$100 of federal government spending in the 2015 budget – its lowest level ever.
Overseas aid plays a huge role in defence, which makes cutting it a dangerous mistake.
The devastation to Vanuatu left in the wake of Cyclone Pam shows small islands in the Pacific need a climate insurance scheme, similar to what has been achieved in the Caribbean.
We now have more people, infrastructure and assets exposed where tropical cyclones make landfall.
UKIP’s Suzanne Evans has said the UK would make big savings if it cut back foreign aid.
Australian aid to Indonesia, both in the form of loans and grants, is not independent of its political and economic interests.
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Lecturer in International Relations, Binus University
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Senior Researcher, Globalism Research Centre, RMIT University
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Associate Principal Research Fellow, Burnet Institute
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Director, Development Policy Centre, Crawford School of Public Policy, Australian National University
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Professor in Global Health Infection and Immunity. and co-Director of the Global Health Academy, University of Edinburgh
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Deputy Director of the HUMLOG (Humanitarian Logistics and Supply Chain Management Research) Institute, Hanken School of Economics
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Emeritus Professor in Public Health, University of Sydney
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Senior Lecturer in International Relations, University of Portsmouth
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Associate Professor, Urban & Regional Planning, Sydney School of Architecture, Design and Planning, University of Sydney
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Senior Lecturer/Associate Professor, Department of Government, University of Essex
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Professor of Southeast Asian Studies, The University of Melbourne
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Professor and Inaugural Judith Neilson Chair in Architecture, UNSW
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Senior Lecturer in Media, Communication and Cultural Studies, University of Malawi
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Lecturer in International Relations and Security Studies, Nottingham Trent University