Development

Reading Time: 3 minutes Author: Iain Watson, Ajou University In 2021, the OECD’s Development Assistance Committee (DAC) reported that its member states’ official development assistance (ODA) amounted to 0.33 per cent of total gross…

Reading Time: 4 minutes Author: Giulia Ajmone Marsan, ERIA The economic dynamism of ASEAN is well-known and in recent years the region has seen the emergence of some of the fastest growing digital economies…

Reading Time: 4 minutes Author: Sheryn Lee, Swedish Defence University On the 45th anniversary of official US–ASEAN ties, US President Joe Biden hosted the leaders of Southeast Asian nations in May 2022 for a…

Reading Time: 4 minutes Author: Deka Anwar, IPAC Policymakers in Jakarta are forging ahead with a plan to divide Papua into four provinces despite strong local opposition. Jakarta claims this will accelerate development and…

Reading Time: 4 minutes Author: Nir Kshetri, University of North Carolina-Greensboro Blockchain is transforming supply chains and facilitating cross-border transactions. In 2020, Anglo-Australian mining, metals and petroleum company BHP completed its first trade with…

Reading Time: 4 minutes Author: Editorial Board, ANU The costs of Russia’s brutal invasion of Ukraine continue to mount, not only in terms of lives lost and cities and villages reduced to rubble. The…

Reading Time: 3 minutes Author: Peter Timmer, Harvard University In just over two months, the world food situation has gone from bad to worse. Calls to not panic fell on deaf ears, even as…

Reading Time: 4 minutes Authors: Mengdi Yue and Christoph Nedopil, Fudan University As COVID-19 continues to interrupt economic activities, induce higher public spending and decrease tax revenues, sovereign debt issues in emerging countries are…

Reading Time: 4 minutes Author: Yvette To, CityU Pursuing ‘common prosperity’ is one of the latest strategic goals of the Chinese Communist Party (CCP). This new initiative aims to reduce social inequality through primary…

Reading Time: 4 minutes Author: Jing Gu, Institute of Development Studies China’s growing role as a provider of development assistance, and the broader impact of its international economic engagement, has been the subject of…