Development

Reading Time: 3 minutes Author: Thong Anh Tran, ANU The Mekong River is the lifeblood of countries in the Mekong region, but the past few years have seen water flows recurringly decline and processes…

Reading Time: 3 minutes Author: Niharika Rustagi, NUS It has been 25 years since the Women’s Reservation Bill — a constitutional amendment proposing that 33 per cent of seats in India’s central and state…

Reading Time: 4 minutes Author: Xu Mingqi, CCIEE China is undoubtedly facing dramatic changes in the global arena. The United States is increasingly mobilising resources and alliances in the Indo-Pacific region and strengthening strategic…

Reading Time: 4 minutes Author: Editorial Board, ANU Francis Fukuyama said the challenge of building modern economic and political structures was, in a nutshell, one of how to ‘get to Denmark’. An Asian democrat…

Reading Time: 4 minutes Author: Dan Slater, University of Michigan The end of the Cold War promised the global spread of wealthy democracies. After three decades, this promise has been disappointingly unfulfilled. In the…

Reading Time: 4 minutes Author: Vikas Kumar, Azim Premji University Achieving gender equity is a major development challenge facing countries such as India. The sex ratio — the ratio of the number of females…

Reading Time: 3 minutes Authors: Trissia Wijaya, Murdoch University and Samuel Nursamsu, SMERU On 15 February 2022, President Joko ‘Jokowi’ Widodo signed a law cementing the legal basis to develop Nusantara, Indonesia’s new capital…

Reading Time: 4 minutes Authors: Peter McCawley, ANU and Melissa Conley Tyler, A4PD To get a handle on Australia’s economic cooperation with Southeast Asia, consider these two statistics. One, Australia has more international direct…

Reading Time: 4 minutes Authors: Ajay Gambhir and Shivika Mittal, Imperial College London, Sandeep Pai, CSIS, and Fergus Green, University College London India made headlines at the COP26 summit in November 2021 after it…

Reading Time: 4 minutes Authors: Titik Anas and Wempi Saputra, Indonesian Ministry of Finance Indonesia’s G20 presidency comes at a time of great uncertainty. On 17 February 2022, the G20 Finance Track under Indonesia’s…