Devpolicy Talks

2015 PNG Update: Opening Address by the Hon James Marape, Finance Minister, Government of Papua New Guinea.

Organised by the University of Papua New Guinea’s School of Business Administration and the ANU Development Policy Centre, the 2015 PNG Update was held in Port Moresby on June 18-19 2015, at the Main Lecture Theatre at the University of Papua New Guinea.

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Presentation of the Survey of Recent Developments by Michael Cornish, Rohan Fox, Win Nicholas, Albert Prabhakar and Ani Rova of the Economics Division, UPNG, and Stephen Howes, Development Policy Centre, ANU.

Organised by the University of Papua New Guinea’s School of Business Administration and the ANU Development Policy Centre, the 2015 PNG Update was held in Port Moresby on June 18-19 2015, at the Main Lecture Theatre at the University of Papua New Guinea.

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2015 PNG Update - Keynote Address by Jim Adams, former Vice President for East Asia and the Pacific, World Bank, on the topic of 'Lessons from reform in Africa and Asia'.

Organised by the University of Papua New Guinea’s School of Business Administration and the ANU Development Policy Centre, the 2015 PNG Update was held in Port Moresby on June 18-19 2015, at the Main Lecture Theatre at the University of Papua New Guinea.

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PNG Update 2015 - Keynote Address by Mr Michael Uiari, General Manager, Oil Search Ltd.

Organised by the University of Papua New Guinea’s School of Business Administration and the ANU Development Policy Centre, the 2015 PNG Update was held in Port Moresby on June 18-19 2015, at the Main Lecture Theatre at the University of Papua New Guinea.

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Last December, the Coalition announced the largest cuts to the aid budget in the history of the Australian aid program: $1 billion or 20 per cent in a single year. How and where will these savings be made? To what extent will key bilateral partners, such as PNG and Indonesia, be protected – and which countries and regions will experience the brunt of the cuts? Will multilateral and NGO allocations be protected, or savaged? Which sectors will be cut? Will humanitarian aid again be compressed? On Wednesday 13 May, experts delivered detailed analysis and commentary during the third Development Policy Centre 2015 Aid Budget Breakfast.

Speakers included: Prof Stephen Howes Director of the Development Policy Centre, and colleagues, who discussed aid volumes, allocations and policies. Dr Anthony Swan Research Fellow at the Development Policy Centre, who analysed the macro and fiscal context of the budget. Dr Julia Newton-Howes AM CEO of CARE Australia, and Ms Jacqui de Lacy, General Manager for Global Strategy at Abt JTA, who provided commentary on what the budget may mean for NGOs and other members of the Australian development community.

Make sure you also read our in-depth analysis on the blog http://devpolicy.org/tag/2015-australian-aid-budget/

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As in past years, the Development Policy Centre hosted a forum to discuss and debate recent Australian aid evaluations. This year we focused on the new annual report on Australian aid Performance of Australian Aid 2013-14 and on two recent evaluations from the Office of Development Effectiveness (ODE) on Australia’s responses to humanitarian crises in the Horn of Africa and Syria. We heared from ODE and the Chair of the ODE’s Independent Evaluation Committee.

Speakers included:

Mr Jim Adams Chair of DFAT’s Independent Evaluation Committee and former World Bank Vice President.
Mr Scott Dawson First Assistant Secretary, Contracting and Aid Management Division, DFAT.
Mr Simon Ernst Office of Development Effectiveness, DFAT.
Professor Stephen Howes Director of the Development Policy Centre and Professor of Economics, Crawford School of Public Policy, ANU.
Mr Jamie Isbister Acting First Assistant Secretary of the Humanitarian Division, DFAT.
Dr Karen Ovington Assistant Director for the Office of Development Effectiveness, DFAT.
Mr Dereck Rooken-Smith Assistant Secretary for the Office of Development Effectiveness, DFAT.
Ms Joanna Spratt PhD Candidate, Crawford School of Public Policy, ANU.

This forum was presented by the Development Policy Centre at Crawford School of Public Policy, The Australian National University.

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As in past years, the Development Policy Centre hosted a forum to discuss and debate recent Australian aid evaluations. This year we focused on the new annual report on Australian aid Performance of Australian Aid 2013-14 and on two recent evaluations from the Office of Development Effectiveness (ODE) on Australia’s responses to humanitarian crises in the Horn of Africa and Syria. We heared from ODE and the Chair of the ODE’s Independent Evaluation Committee.

Speakers included:

Mr Jim Adams Chair of DFAT’s Independent Evaluation Committee and former World Bank Vice President.
Mr Scott Dawson First Assistant Secretary, Contracting and Aid Management Division, DFAT.
Mr Simon Ernst Office of Development Effectiveness, DFAT.
Professor Stephen Howes Director of the Development Policy Centre and Professor of Economics, Crawford School of Public Policy, ANU.
Mr Jamie Isbister Acting First Assistant Secretary of the Humanitarian Division, DFAT.
Dr Karen Ovington Assistant Director for the Office of Development Effectiveness, DFAT.
Mr Dereck Rooken-Smith Assistant Secretary for the Office of Development Effectiveness, DFAT.
Ms Joanna Spratt PhD Candidate, Crawford School of Public Policy, ANU.

https://crawford.anu.edu.au/devpolicy/events

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Sector Wide Approaches (SWAps) for health emerged in the 1990s as a mechanism to improve efficiency of aid delivery and effectiveness of aid. Health SWAps aim to increase recipient government autonomy over aid, allowing greater influence over priority setting. Ultimately, it is hoped changes under SWAps will lead to health improvements, yet evidence on health impacts is scarce. In this talk, Mr Rohan Sweeney spoke to a paper in which he analysed a unique dataset of health‐aid recipient countries over 1990‐2011 to investigate the impact of the implementation of SWAps on infant mortality rates.

Mr Sweeney discussed his findings, in particular evidence suggesting that SWAp implementation facilitated about a 7 per cent reduction in infant mortality rates compared to the counterfactual. However, it has taken time for SWAps to mature before health impacts have been realised.

Mr Rohan Sweeney is a Research Fellow at the Centre for Health Economics, Monash University. He has a particular interest in health economics and health financing in lower income country settings. His recent focus has been on foreign aid for health, employing econometric methods to assess the impacts of Sector Wide Approaches (SWAps) for coordinating health aid.

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Development in most Asian countries has taken place through several conventional phases. Economies such as Indonesia have started with agriculture/resource based development; have moved to industrialisation first based on import substitution and then shifting towards export orientation as well as production networks; and have then started to transition towards a knowledge and information based as well as a more services oriented economy. The ‘new economy’ continues to evolve beyond knowledge and information based sectors; the fourth wave of change is known as the creative economy.

At the same time developing countries are facing external and globalisation challenges. Technology disruptions have led to greater interdependence and changing models of international business engagement. Just what can be transacted and exchanged between countries in today’s context is so vastly different from the situation just a decade ago.

How has a country like Indonesia developed over the course of these different phases of development? Has it been able to take advantage of the new economy? What are the important challenges, opportunities and policies ahead?

Dr Mari Elka Pangestu was the Minister of Trade of Indonesia from October 2004 to October 2011. She was appointed to the newly-created position of minister of Tourism and Creative Economy in October 2011. Dr Pangestu is currently Professor of International Economics at the University of Indonesia.

The Harold Mitchell Development Policy Annual Lecture Series, of which this is the third, has been created to provide a new forum at which the most pressing development issues can be addressed by the best minds and most influential practitioners of our time.

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During her first visit to Vanuatu as Secretary General of the Pacific Islands Forum Secretariat (PIFS), Dame Meg Taylor took some time to chat with Tess Newton Cain for Pacific Conversations.

Blog post available here: http://devpolicy.org/regionalism-sub-regionalism-and-womens-empowerment-an-interview-with-dame-meg-taylor-20150308/

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