Devpolicy Talks

The Seasonal Worker Program (SWP) was established in 2008, initially as a pilot, then in 2012 as a permanent program, to help meet the labour needs in Australia’s horticultural sector and to provide labour mobility opportunities to Pacific islanders. Despite continuing growth, the SWP remains small in comparison both to the overall number of workers operating in the sectors it covers and to New Zealand’s equivalent Recognised Seasonal Employer Scheme. For the SWP, the binding constraint remains low employer demand.

Why aren’t more employers demanding SWP workers? And what reforms would increase employer demand? Jesse Doyle from The World Bank and Stephen Howes from ANU presented findings from a joint World Bank-ANU survey undertaken in 2014 of employers and industry associations across the Australian horticulture industry, and it was followed by a panel discussion with stakeholders involved with seasonal migration. Mr Axel van Trotsenburg, World Bank Vice President for East Asia and Pacific, chaired this public forum.

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This panel included the following presentations:

All talk and no action: has the Pacific regional health architecture improved over the last five years? — Joel Negin, Associate Professor and Senior Lecturer in International Public Health, The University of Sydney

Tertiary scholarships in Pacific Island States: a public policy challenge and emerging responses — Stephen Close, Human Development Specialist, World Bank

Trends in aid to the Pacific islands: Budget support, conditionality and effectiveness — Matthew Dornan and Jonathan Pryke, The Development Policy Centre

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

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This panel included the following presentations:

Understanding conflict, development, and statebuilding: frontier dynamics in central Sulawesi, Indonesia
Rachel Diprose, University of Melbourne

Drugs and development in the Afghan-Tajik borderlands
Jonathan Goodhand, University of Melbourne

Anxious integration: development in Sri Lanka’s post-war frontier
Bart Klem, University of Melbourne and Thiruni Kelegama, University of Zurich

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

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While aid from traditional donors has ebbed and flowed over recent years, countries like India and China, who have been quietly supporting south-south cooperation for more than 50 years, are rapidly scaling up their development assistance. Conservative estimates indicate that non-DAC aid surpasses USD10B per annum and will account for at least USD50B in aid or aid-like flows by 2025. India is at the forefront of this sea change. India’s commitment to south- south cooperation has its historical roots in the Non Aligned Movement which provided an instrument through which national governments could assert their sovereignty and that of others outside of the cold war power blocs. Today this soft power tool of Indian foreign policy is supporting the development of its neighbours and friends including Afghanistan, Myanmar, and increasingly partners in Africa. This panel explores the evolution and contemporary influence of India’s soft power in development cooperation and its impact on the global dynamics of aid.

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

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The changing aid landscape has implications both for donors and recipient countries. This panel explores what the new aid landscape means from a partner country perspective. Speakers discussed how the development/aid landscape in their countries has changed over the years with the emergence of new actors and new forms of finance, the opportunities and challenges new modalities and diverse partnerships offer, and how partner governments are managing this new situation in terms of public financial management, aid coordination, public perceptions and expectations.

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Kylie Charlton is Managing Director and Co-founder of Unitus Capital.

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Drawing on the findings of a multi-decade aid allocation analysis, and of a survey of developing country governments, Robin Davies contests the orthodoxies that the end of aid is night. He foresees a continuing and substantial role for both aid and specialised aid delivery agencies, while arguing for renewed attention to several major aspects of aid effectiveness.

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Tanya Plibersek, Deputy Leader of the Opposition and Shadow Minister for Foreign Affairs and International Development, delivered the opening address at the 2015 Australasian Aid Conference.

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During his recent visit to Canberra, Stephen Howes spoke to Dr Mark Dybul, the head of the Global Fund to Fight AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria.

Blog post available here: http://devpolicy.org/the-future-of-the-global-fund-20150223/

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Tess reached out across the International Date Line to talk with the Premier of Niue, Toke Talagi.

Blog post available here: http://devpolicy.org/tourism-regionalism-and-niues-quest-for-self-sustainability-an-interview-with-premier-toke-talagi-20150129/

Devpolicy Talks is the podcast of the Australian National University's Development Policy Centre.

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