The current framework for improving aid effectiveness, the ‘Paris’ agenda of harmonization and alignment, has been found lacking. Alternatives are needed. This paper highlights some examples of recent innovations in the management and delivery of development aid. Drawing upon Barder (2009)...

This paper is an update of our previous research on NGO donations and support for ODA in Australia. It uses more recent and more accurate data, and we believe its findings to be improved. The paper reports on research in which electorate-level data about donations to Australian aid NGOs were...

NOTE: This paper has been updated with new data. Please see the new version here: https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=2881729. This paper examines support for aid amongst the Australian public. It draws on two new datasets – one based on surveyed support for government aid...

Chinese development assistance in the Pacific has attracted increasing attention since the 1st China-Pacific Island Countries Economic Development and Cooperation Forum in 2006, at which China announced US$492 million in concessional loans to the region. Another US$1 billion in concessional...

This study investigates the long-run effects of foreign aid on donor exports to recipient countries, using Australian exports to Asia as a case study. Dynamic panel econometric techniques and the Gravity Model of international trade are used to explore the relationship between official...

On average, appraisals find aid projects to be less effective in the Pacific than elsewhere in the developing world. In this study, we use a new multi-donor data set to study why aid projects are less effective in the region. We find the clearest impediments to effectiveness in the Pacific are...