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The international aid sector's use of languages needs to change if it is serious about dealing with the issues raised by recent scandals.
Australia has long been concerned about foreign powers gaining influence in the Pacific, but China's involvement in the region may not be as nefarious as it fears.
Rebuilding Syria will be complex and costly. But expertise and extensive funds will be in short supply due the geopolitical absence of the US and other Western countries.
To stop sexual exploitation in the aid sector, more self-regulation by NGOs isn't the answer.
We don’t care, or possibly dare, to look back five or ten years later to see what happened to international aid projects.
Even as incomes are squeezed, the British public continues to give more money to international NGOs than anyone else.
A huge majority of humanitarian employees are local to the country of intervention, but their motivations and pressures are often misunderstood.
There's something in the old adage, 'there's no place like home'.
There is a lot of potential in borrowing ideas from the startup world to complement foreign aid funding.
Why NGOs and donors must have adult conversations about what development really means.
In the last decade, the United States has been the leading funder for preparing and responding to global infectious outbreaks, and the delivery of basic health care to low-income countries.
Development agencies should consider nature and culture when creating strategies to alleviate global poverty.
A study of how the Young African Leaders Initiative handles its business exposes typical weaknesses, mainly lack of understanding local context, suffered by many foreign aid programmes.
Constant staff rotations makes it difficult to pass on knowledge about an emergency situation.
Even when ISIS is defeated, unless different groups can repair their relationship, violent extremism will remain, and peace in Iraq will stay elusive.
To find the data on Australia's aid generosity in the past, some detective work is required.
One of the messages coming out of Donald Trump's victory is that his supporters are rejecting the tolerance and cosmopolitanism of the past 30 years.
The world's best known talk show host has become the president-elect of the most powerful country in the world. Trump running the US is unlikely to be good news for Africa.
Options are open for how to spend £1.4 billion of British aid channelled through EU.
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Emeritus Professor in Public Health, University of Sydney
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Associate Professor, Urban & Regional Planning, Faculty of Architecture, Design and Planning, University of Sydney
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Director, Development Policy Centre, Crawford School of Public Policy, Australian National University
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Professor of International Health, Burnet Institute
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Senior Researcher, Globalism Research Centre, RMIT University
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Honorary Senior Fellow, University of Melbourne
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Lecturer in International Relations, Bina Nusantara University
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Senior Lecturer in International Relations, University of Portsmouth
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Professor of Public Health, University of Melbourne
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Honorary Associate Professor in Strategic Studies, Deakin University
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Associate professor, University of Technology Sydney
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Professor of Conservation and Sustainable Livelihoods, Charles Darwin University
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Head of School of International and Political Studies, Deakin University
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Postdoctoral Fellow, Centre for Deliberative Democracy and Global Governance, University of Canberra
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Visiting Fellow on Burma, Dept of Political & Social Change, Australian National University
