Oct 28, 2013 | GENERAL NEWS, IN THE NEWS, PAST CAMPAIGNS
Published 25 October 2013Yesterday the transparency advocacy organisation Publish What You Fund released its 2013 Aid Transparency Index. Now in its third year, the index scores and ranks aid providers on the aid information they publish. The index and website feature...Oct 23, 2013 | EVENTS, GENERAL NEWS, IN THE NEWS
Aid, trade and development are intimately linked. Aid has often facilitated a trade liberalisation agenda with free trade seen as a path to economic growth and development. However, free trade arrangements force developing countries to open up their economies to goods...Oct 15, 2013 | EVENTS, GENERAL NEWS, IN THE NEWS
A major concern with the Australian aid program is that it favours commercial interests in aid delivery. The commercialisation of aid often results in ‘boomerang aid’ – where aid ends up funding private Australian companies, consultants, advisors, and goods and...Oct 15, 2013 | GENERAL NEWS, IN THE NEWS, PAST CAMPAIGNS
On the first day of the new Abbott government, it was announced that Australia’s overseas development agency, AusAID, was to be incorporated into the Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade. There has long been a tension between the purported aim of an aid...Oct 9, 2013 | GENERAL NEWS, IN THE NEWS, PAST CAMPAIGNS
The message provides some of the first detail on what the future of AusAID and Australian aid might hold since PM Tony Abbott’s aid reorganisation announcement last month.The principles include a new objective for the aid...