Devpolicy Talks
315 episodes - English - Latest episode: about 1 month ago - ★★★ - 1 ratingDevpolicy Talks brings you interviews, event recordings and more in-depth documentary features relating to the topics we research at the Development Policy Centre. The Centre, part of the Australian National University’s Crawford School of Public Policy, works on Australian aid, development in Papua New Guinea and the Pacific, and regional and global development issues. It is host to the Devpolicy Blog (devpolicy.org) and a range of public events including the annual PNG Update, Pacific Update and Australasian Aid and International Development Conference.
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ODE evaluations part 1: Introduction and volunteers
June 02, 2015 06:30 - 1 hour - 107 MBIn recent months, the Office of Development Effectiveness, the unit within DFAT that’s responsible for the evaluation of Australia’s aid program, has released three important reports. One is its evaluation of the Australian aid volunteer program. The other are two reports on aid program quality: its review of aid program performance reports, and its Lessons from Australian Aid report. As in past years, the Development Policy Centre hosted a forum to discuss and debate these reports. Present...
G20's policy challenges for Asia and the Pacific - Development policy: infrastructure reform
June 02, 2015 06:14 - 1 hour - 81.4 MBA part of the 2014 Asia and the Pacific Policy Society Conference 2014 organised by the Development Policy Centre on infrastructure reforms. Presentations were: The political economy of utility regulation: the case of Vanuatu - James Ryan, Chief Economist, Utilities Regulatory Authority of Vanuatu The Asian experience with energy subsidies and reform - Dr Shikha Jha, Principal Economist, Economics and Research Department, Asian Development Bank Road infrastructure maintenance: lessons fro...
Risk and hardship in the Pacific and worldwide
June 02, 2015 06:13 - 1 hour - 79.5 MBOver 20 per cent of people in Pacific Island Countries (PICS) live in hardship, meaning they are unable to meet their basic needs. Increasing risks from natural and economic shocks also mean many traditional safety nets may not be as effective as they have been in the past. Two new reports shed light on these issues both in the Pacific and worldwide, the World Development Report for 2014, Risk and Opportunity: Managing Risk for Development and a new World Bank report, sponsored by the Austr...
PNG’s awakening: an interview with Serena Sumanop
June 02, 2015 05:57 - 17 minutes - 16.2 MBSerena Sumanop is the Executive Director of The Voice Inc, a home-grown Papua New Guinean NGO working to empower young people to contribute to their communities and to development. During her recent visit to Canberra Ashlee Betteridge caught up with Serena to talk about PNG. Read and subscribe to our daily blogs at devpolicy.org. Learn more about our research and join our public events at devpolicy.anu.edu.au. Follow us on Twitter, Facebook, LinkedIn and Instagram for latest updates on ou...
Pacific conversations with Astrid Boulekone
June 02, 2015 05:55 - 21 minutes - 19.9 MBTess Newton Cain sits down with Astrid Boulekone, General Manager of the Vanuatu Chamber of Commerce and Industry. Blog available here: http://devpolicy.org/pacific-conversations-private-sector-development-in-vanuatu-with-astrid-boulekone-20140306/ Read and subscribe to our daily blogs at devpolicy.org. Learn more about our research and join our public events at devpolicy.anu.edu.au. Follow us on Twitter, Facebook, LinkedIn and Instagram for latest updates on our blogs, research and even...
2014 AAIDP Workshop - Sir Fazle Hasan Abed dinner speech
June 02, 2015 05:52 - 30 minutes - 28.2 MBSir Fazle Hasan Abed is the Founder and Chairperson of BRAC, the world's largest NGO. Read and subscribe to our daily blogs at devpolicy.org. Learn more about our research and join our public events at devpolicy.anu.edu.au. Follow us on Twitter, Facebook, LinkedIn and Instagram for latest updates on our blogs, research and events.
2014 AAIDP Workshop - Frances Seymour - Forests for climate and development
June 02, 2015 05:37 - 53 minutes - 48.8 MBFrances Seymour is a Senior Fellow at the Center for Global Development based in Washington, DC, and a Senior Advisor to the David and Lucile Packard Foundation. In her keynote address, she argued that, while reducing forest loss will depend on domestic political will and profound institutional and governance changes in forest countries, there are also options available to rich country governments, corporations, and citizens to accelerate progressive reform. The actions she outlined and reco...
2014 AAIDP Workshop - Making their mark: the BRICS and aid
June 02, 2015 05:36 - 1 hour - 82.8 MBThis plenary session provided updates and new analysis of aid from three emerging superpowers – China, India and Brazil – from three leading experts. Dr. Rani Mullen is Director, Indian Development Cooperation Research and Senior Visiting Fellow at the Centre for Policy Research in New Delhi. Dr. Tongquan Sun is an Associate Professor at the Rural Development Institute of the Chinese Academy of Social Sciences (CASS) where he researches Chinese and international development assistance. Dr S...
2014 AAIDP Workshop - Roger Riddell - Does aid really work?
June 02, 2015 05:25 - 47 minutes - 43.6 MBRoger Ridell is an associate at Oxford Policy Management and is a development and aid specialist with some 40 years’ experience. His 2008 book Does Foreign Aid Really Work? was the first attempt in more than 20 years to survey the evidence around whether aid actually works. Roger’s keynote address provided an updated assessment on aid’s impact, discussed what impact we ought to expect aid to have and outlined ways in which its impact could be improved. A summary blog of his speech, which in...
2014 AAIDP Workshop - Julie Bishop Opening Address
June 02, 2015 05:14 - 48 minutes - 44.4 MBJulie Bishop, Minister for Foreign Affairs, delivered the opening address at the 2014 Australasian Aid and Development Policy Workshop. A transcript of her speech is available here: http://foreignminister.gov.au/speeches/2014/jb_sp_140213.html Read and subscribe to our daily blogs at devpolicy.org. Learn more about our research and join our public events at devpolicy.anu.edu.au. Follow us on Twitter, Facebook, LinkedIn and Instagram for latest updates on our blogs, research and events.
Pacific conversations with Kolone Vaai
June 02, 2015 04:54 - 23 minutes - 21.5 MBTess Newton Cain sits down with Kolone Vaai, Principal Consultant at KVAConsult Ltd and former Financial Secretary for the Government of Samoa (1984-1990). Blog post available here: http://devpolicy.org/pacific-conversations-the-economy-of-samoa-with-kolone-vaai-20140122/ Read and subscribe to our daily blogs at devpolicy.org. Learn more about our research and join our public events at devpolicy.anu.edu.au. Follow us on Twitter, Facebook, LinkedIn and Instagram for latest updates on our ...
2013 Australian aid stakeholder survey
June 02, 2015 04:15 - 1 hour - 77.9 MBIn July and August 2013 the Development Policy Centre surveyed 356 stakeholders in the Australian aid program, from the senior executives of Australia’s biggest NGOs and development contracting companies, to the officials of multilateral, partner government and Australian government agencies. The survey asked them what they thought about the Australian aid program, what they liked, what they didn’t like, what they thought the future of aid was and what needed to be done to improve our aid. ...
Afghanistan: what has been achieved?
June 02, 2015 04:07 - 1 hour - 87 MBAs troops withdraw and aid declines, this is a critical period of transition for Afghanistan. At this forum, the speakers questioned what has been achieved to date. The event also included the Australia launch of The Asia Foundation’s Survey of the Afghan People 2013. This is the biggest public opinion poll in Afghanistan, covering all 34 provinces. Through face-to-face interviews, over 9,000 Afghan citizens revealed their opinions on security, political participation, the economy, women’s ...
Interview with Daisy Plana on family and sexual violence survivors in PNG
June 02, 2015 03:51 - 23 minutes - 21.8 MBAshlee Betteridge sits down with Daisy Plana to discuss her new role as the Senior Social Worker and first CEO of the PNG Family and Sexual Violence Case Management Centre (CMC).The CMC is a newly registered NGO, currently in the set-up phase. Blog available here: http://devpolicy.org/moving-beyond-the-medical-for-family-and-sexual-violence-survivors-in-png-20131212/ You can read about the rationale for the CMC here: http://devpolicy.org/responding-to-family-and-sexual-violence-in-png-the-...
Economics of climate change in the Pacific
June 02, 2015 03:43 - 55 minutes - 50.5 MBThe Pacific region is particularly vulnerable to the impacts of climate change, which carry the risk of significant economic costs. The Asian Development Bank’s report on the economics of climate change in the Pacific aims to raise the level of understanding of all sectors and stakeholders on possible impacts of climate change, with analyses that lead to regional strategies supported by national programs linked to local policies and activities. It focuses on Fiji, Papua New Guinea, Samoa, So...
Syria - responding to the humanitarian challenge of a generation on the brink
June 02, 2015 03:39 - 26 minutes - 24.4 MBThe unfolding crisis in Syria has left more than eight million people displaced from their homes. Cut off from vital services, desperately in need of water, food and health care, today an entire generation of Syrians are teetering on the brink. How does the international community respond to such a crisis? Luciano Calestini, currently coordinating UNICEF’s humanitarian response in Lebanon where more than 800,000 refugees are struggling to survive, provided a unique insight into the heart of ...
Pacific Conversations with Odo Tevi
June 02, 2015 03:33 - 20 minutes - 18.4 MBTess Newton Cain sits down with Odo Tevi, who was Governor of the Reserve Bank of Vanuatu for the last 15 years, to discuss the Vanuatu economy. Blog post available here: http://devpolicy.org/in-conversation-with-odo-tevi-on-the-vanuatu-economy-20131329/ Read and subscribe to our daily blogs at devpolicy.org. Learn more about our research and join our public events at devpolicy.anu.edu.au. Follow us on Twitter, Facebook, LinkedIn and Instagram for latest updates on our blogs, research an...
Are the Asia and Pacific small states different from other small states
June 02, 2015 02:41 - 1 hour - 80.3 MBThe 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, geographical isolation and dispersion, narrow export and production bases, exposure to shocks, and heavy reliance on aid. Higher fixed government costs, low access to credit by the private sector, and capacity constraints are also key challenges. The econometric analysis confirms that the Pacific Island C...
The challenges of aid dependency and economics for Africa and the Pacific
June 02, 2015 02:29 - 1 hour - 57 MBAfter 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 and the Pacific well. In the 2014 Harold Mitchell Development Policy Lecture, he focussed on how effective economic reform emerged in Africa and related institutional and capacity issues. Drawing on this and his Pacific experience, he reviewed a number of proposals that could be taken by donors...
Are international organisations up to the challenge of providing global public goods for development
June 02, 2015 02:26 - 1 hour - 74.8 MBThe 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 and fisheries—all these things call for cooperation at the regional or global levels, as well as action at the national level. Such cooperation is often mediated by international organisations and much of it is funded by aid. But global aid is shrinking in this era of austerity and international ...
Pacific Conversations with Katy Le Roy
June 02, 2015 02:12 - 24 minutes - 22.1 MBTess 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 legislation and advising the Speaker of Parliament and parliamentary committees. A full transcript of the interview is available here: http://devpolicy.org/pacific-conversations/6.%20Transcript%20of%20interview%20with%20Katy%20Le%20Roy.docx Blog post available here: http://devpolicy.org/nauru...
Tapping the market - opportunities for domestic investments in WASH
June 02, 2015 02:09 - 59 minutes - 54.4 MBThroughout 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 been advising client governments on the effective engagement of domestic private sector in the delivery of services and the development of water and sanitation markets that cater to the poor. In this public event, Ms Jaehyang So and Bob Warner presented the findings of the WSP’s recently publi...
An interview with Duncan Green
June 02, 2015 01:57 - 6 minutes - 5.67 MBOxfam's Duncan Green speaks with Devpolicy's Associate Director Robin Davies about the realities of doing development in complex systems. Read and subscribe to our daily blogs at devpolicy.org. Learn more about our research and join our public events at devpolicy.anu.edu.au. Follow us on Twitter, Facebook, LinkedIn and Instagram for latest updates on our blogs, research and events.
Duncan Green - How do we plan, campaign and work in development
June 02, 2015 01:48 - 50 minutes - 46.5 MBHow 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 plans and procedures, but often we block out that knowledge in order to keep functioning. In this talk, Duncan Green asks what would we do differently, if we acknowledge and try to adapt to the messiness of reality. Dr Duncan Green is Senior Strategic Adviser at Oxfam GB, Honorary Professor of ...
Goals for people - a review of post-2015 proposals, and some suggestions
June 02, 2015 01:43 - 1 hour - 58.2 MBUntil 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. Now, several proposals for an integrated post-2015 agenda have emerged. Most prominent among these is the illustrative framework offered by the UN Secretary-General’s High-Level Panel (HLP) of Eminent Persons on the Post-2015 Development Agenda. Robin Davies gave a comparative assessment of the...
Child protection in Afghanistan
June 02, 2015 01:35 - 58 minutes - 53.4 MBDecades 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 the Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR), talked about her experience building formal and informal mechanisms to protect children in Afghanistan. Kerry drew on her experience with UNICEF in supporting the Afghan government to set up a Child Protection Action Netw...
Election forum on Australian aid
June 02, 2015 01:31 - 1 hour - 85.7 MBAustralia’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 aid 0.5 per cent of Gross National Income (GNI), and just this month slashed $900 million from the forward estimates for aid. The Coalition has not put any date to achievement of 0.5. There are also major aid policy and effectiveness issues at play, including aid for asylum seekers, aid to PNG,...
Perspectives in global development - industrial policies in a changing world
June 02, 2015 01:14 - 58 minutes - 53.9 MBSince 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 convergence in global income per capita. The process of ‘shifting wealth’ was led by China and India, but other countries are also contributing to it, including Brazil and South Africa. In spite of the persistence of large gaps in income per capita between OECD and non-OECD economies and the wide inequa...
Value for money in aid
June 02, 2015 01:11 - 52 minutes - 48.2 MBAid 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 confusion? This public forum addressed these questions from a variety of perspectives. Speakers at the forum were: Dr Cathy Shutt, Institute of Development Studies (IDS), University of Sussex and convenor of the Big Push Forward initiative. Dr Shutt has over 19 years’ experience working as a researc...
Texts, tweets and social change - how can communications contribute to development
June 02, 2015 01:06 - 1 hour - 74.3 MBOver 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 phones on the planet than people. Increasingly, those in the aid sector are seeing the potential for these media and communication technologies to be harnessed for development. But can these tools transform democracy, governance, transparency, accountability and humanitarian responses? Or doe...
Pacific Conversations with Tara Chetty
June 02, 2015 00:52 - 21 minutes - 19.6 MBTess 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.%20Transcript%20of%20interview%20with%20Tara%20Chetty.docx Blog post available here: http://devpolicy.org/tara-chetty-fiji-democracy-and-womens-rights-20130806/ Read and subscribe to our daily blogs at devpolicy.org. Learn more about our research and join our public events at devpolicy.anu.edu...
Pacific Conversations with Francis Herman
June 02, 2015 00:50 - 35 minutes - 32.7 MBTess 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 media landscape of the Pacific region. A full transcript of the interview is available here: http://devpolicy.org/pacific-conversations/4.%20Transcript%20of%20interview%20with%20Francis%20Herman%20.docx Blog post available here: Read and subscribe to our daily blogs at devpolicy.org. Learn more ...
34 Does Official Development Assistance Have A Future
June 02, 2015 00:45 - 57 minutes - 52.4 MBThe 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 mutated into the Millennium Development Goals and political momentum returned to the aid effort. Annual ODA rose by two-thirds in the decade leading up to 2010. But the knives are out again in finance departments around the world, and critics charge that ODA measurements are inflated in any case. ...
PNG Update 5 - gender-based violence
June 02, 2015 00:42 - 1 hour - 79.7 MBThe 2013 Pacific and PNG Update provided a forum for the discussion of the latest economic, social and political developments in the region. The Update was hosted by the Development Policy Centre, and supported by: the Asian Development Bank’s Pacific Economic Management Technical Assistance Project; and the Asia and Pacific Policy Studies, the flagship publication of the Crawford School of Public Policy, ANU in partnership with Australian Aid, AusAID. The 'Gender-based violence' panel cons...
PNG Update 4 - economic policy challenges
June 02, 2015 00:35 - 1 hour - 71.4 MBThe 2013 Pacific and PNG Update provided a forum for the discussion of the latest economic, social and political developments in the region. The Update was hosted by the Development Policy Centre, and supported by: the Asian Development Bank’s Pacific Economic Management Technical Assistance Project; and the Asia and Pacific Policy Studies, the flagship publication of the Crawford School of Public Policy, ANU in partnership with Australian Aid, AusAID. The 'Economic policy challenges' panel...
PNG Update 3 - issues in public service delivery
June 02, 2015 00:28 - 1 hour - 67.3 MBThe 2013 Pacific and PNG Update provided a forum for the discussion of the latest economic, social and political developments in the region. The Update was hosted by the Development Policy Centre, and supported by: the Asian Development Bank’s Pacific Economic Management Technical Assistance Project; and the Asia and Pacific Policy Studies, the flagship publication of the Crawford School of Public Policy, ANU in partnership with Australian Aid, AusAID. The 'Issues in public service delivery...
PNG Update 2 - economic and political update
June 02, 2015 00:23 - 1 hour - 57.1 MBThe 2013 Pacific and PNG Update provided a forum for the discussion of the latest economic, social and political developments in the region. The Update was hosted by the Development Policy Centre, and supported by: the Asian Development Bank’s Pacific Economic Management Technical Assistance Project; and the Asia and Pacific Policy Studies, the flagship publication of the Crawford School of Public Policy, ANU in partnership with Australian Aid, AusAID. The 'PNG economic and political update...
PNG Update 1 - Albert Mellam on PNG higher education
June 02, 2015 00:18 - 56 minutes - 51.8 MBThe 2013 Pacific and PNG Update provided a forum for the discussion of the latest economic, social and political developments in the region. The Update was hosted by the Development Policy Centre, and supported by: the Asian Development Bank’s Pacific Economic Management Technical Assistance Project; and the Asia and Pacific Policy Studies, the flagship publication of the Crawford School of Public Policy, ANU in partnership with Australian Aid, AusAID. The keynote address for the PNG update...
Pacific Update 6 - public management and private sector development
June 02, 2015 00:11 - 34 minutes - 31.7 MBThe 2013 Pacific and PNG Update provides a forum for the discussion of the latest economic, social and political developments in the region. The Update was hosted by the Development Policy Centre, and supported by: the Asian Development Bank’s Pacific Economic Management Technical Assistance Project; and the Asia and Pacific Policy Studies, the flagship publication of the Crawford School of Public Policy, ANU in partnership with Australian Aid, AusAID. The 'public management and private sec...
Pacific Update 5 - Pacific gender update
June 02, 2015 00:09 - 57 minutes - 52.8 MBThe 2013 Pacific and PNG Update provides a forum for the discussion of the latest economic, social and political developments in the region. The Update was hosted by the Development Policy Centre, and supported by: the Asian Development Bank’s Pacific Economic Management Technical Assistance Project; and the Asia and Pacific Policy Studies, the flagship publication of the Crawford School of Public Policy, ANU in partnership with Australian Aid, AusAID. The 'Pacific gender update panel' cons...
Pacific Update 4 - regional integration
June 02, 2015 00:07 - 53 minutes - 48.8 MBThe 2013 Pacific and PNG Update provides a forum for the discussion of the latest economic, social and political developments in the region. The Update was hosted by the Development Policy Centre, and supported by: the Asian Development Bank’s Pacific Economic Management Technical Assistance Project; and the Asia and Pacific Policy Studies, the flagship publication of the Crawford School of Public Policy, ANU in partnership with Australian Aid, AusAID. The panel consisted of: Seini O'Conno...
Pacific Update 3 - regional trade, labour mobility and linkages
June 01, 2015 23:58 - 49 minutes - 45.6 MBThe 2013 Pacific and PNG Update provides a forum for the discussion of the latest economic, social and political developments in the region. The Update was hosted by the Development Policy Centre, and supported by: the Asian Development Bank’s Pacific Economic Management Technical Assistance Project; and the Asia and Pacific Policy Studies, the flagship publication of the Crawford School of Public Policy, ANU in partnership with Australian Aid, AusAID. The panel consisted of: Seini O'Conno...
Pacific Update 2 - Small Island States
June 01, 2015 23:43 - 1 hour - 62.1 MBThe 2013 Pacific and PNG Update provides a forum for the discussion of the latest economic, social and political developments in the region. The Update was hosted by the Development Policy Centre, and supported by: the Asian Development Bank’s Pacific Economic Management Technical Assistance Project; and the Asia and Pacific Policy Studies, the flagship publication of the Crawford School of Public Policy, ANU in partnership with Australian Aid, AusAID. Panel 1b on small island states consis...
Pacific Update 1 - regional overview, Melanesia and Timor-Leste
June 01, 2015 23:36 - 1 hour - 104 MBThe 2013 Pacific and PNG Update provides a forum for the discussion of the latest economic, social and political developments in the region. The Update was hosted by the Development Policy Centre, and supported by: the Asian Development Bank’s Pacific Economic Management Technical Assistance Project; and the Asia and Pacific Policy Studies, the flagship publication of the Crawford School of Public Policy, ANU in partnership with Australian Aid, AusAID. The session was opened by Professor To...
John Gibson on two decades of poverty in PNG
June 01, 2015 06:38 - 1 hour - 75.7 MBPapua New Guinea recently completed its second national household consumption survey, potentially enabling poverty comparisons with baseline estimates from 14 years earlier. But the methods used by the recent 2009/10 Household Income and Expenditure Survey (HIES) differ in important ways from those of the 1996 PNG Household Survey (PNGHS) which makes poverty comparisons more difficult. This talk describes the two surveys and the poverty estimates derived from them, and discusses the apparen...
Francois Bourguignon On Globalisation And Inequality
June 01, 2015 06:37 - 1 hour - 65.2 MBTwo important trend reversals have taken place in global inequality over the last 25 years: the inequality between countries has started to decrease after two centuries of steady increase and the inequality within many countries has started to rise after a long period of stability, in particular in developed countries. After documenting this evolution, Francois Bourguignon, former Chief Economist at the World Bank, focused on two sets of questions. First, is globalisation the main cause beh...
Disability-inclusive development forum
June 01, 2015 06:24 - 1 hour - 85.7 MBPeople with disability are among the poorest and most marginalised in developing countries. One estimate is that there are one billion people with disability worldwide, including 20% of the world’s poorest. The challenge of making development disability-inclusive has traditionally received little attention, but that is now changing. AusAID has been playing a leadership role with its Development for All strategy (2009-2014). Members of AusAID’s Disability-Inclusive Development Reference Grou...
David Booth - business, politics and the state in Africa - challenging the orthodoxies
June 01, 2015 06:15 - 59 minutes - 54.5 MBHaving achieved historically unprecedented economic growth over recent years, African countries now face the challenge of structurally transforming their economies. However, the politics of how to do this remains controversial. The standard international advice on good governance and the adoption of a ‘golden thread’ of sound institutions is not supported by historical and comparative evidence. The key thing is not getting the right institutions but having a political settlement that allows...
Ume Wainetti on combatting family and sexual violence in PNG
June 01, 2015 05:43 - 58 minutes - 53.6 MBUme Wainetti is National Coordinator of the PNG Family and Sexual Violence Action Committee (FSVAC), the body charged with coordinating the national response to gender-based violence.She has years of experience in leading PNG’s response to gender-based violence. In this public forum, Ume Wainetti explored the gains made, the promising approaches, and the challenges ahead for an effective response to gender-based violence in PNG. In particular, she argued for the critical need to fill the mi...
Paul Collier on how the private sector can help the bottom billion
June 01, 2015 05:41 - 1 hour - 66.6 MBIn his universally acclaimed and award-winning book The Bottom Billion, Paul Collier argues that fifty failed states-home to the poorest one billion people on earth-pose the central challenge of the developing world in the twenty-first century. In this public lecture, Professor Collier explored how the private sector can engage to help the bottom billion. [Note: Variable sound level as Professor Collier paced at varying distances from recorder during presentation] Read and subscribe to our...