This book brings together 27 chapters from some of the world's leading practitioners and experts on environmental water, communities, law, economics and governance. Its goal is to understand the many dimensions of water in the Murray- Darling Basin and provide guidance about how to implement a water management plan that addresses the needs of communities...

Accommodating China's rise in a way that ensures the future stability and prosperity of the world economy and polity is probably the most important task facing the world community in the first half of the 21st century. Where the last three decades of the 20th century witnessed a China rising on to the global economic...

This report presents the findings of a study of Central Finance Agencies (CFAs) that was financed jointly by the Bank Netherlands Partnership Program (BNPP) and the World Bank since July 2008. The work involved the preparation of a framework paper by Bjoern Dressel and Jim Brumby, which employs political economy considerations; a set of case...

This paper measures the extent to which both donor finance and resource revenues have contributed to higher rates of expenditure in key development sectors of the PNG economy - social services (including health and education) and infrastructure, between 1975 and 2010. Estimated elasticities are then compared against a hypothetical revenue scenario to assess the potential...

New forms of aid, including “philanthrocapitalism” such as The Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation, are rapidly altering the international aid architecture for health. These organisations have financial power, actively shape agendas and influence policy. The rise of non‐traditional donor organisations creates opportunities and has implications for Australia as it scales‐up its aid program. AusAID could...