This paper examines the differences between the impacts of fiscal policy in advanced versus emerging economies. The emergence of substantial fiscal deficits and a large build-up of government debt in major advanced economies will inevitably lead to a period of fiscal consolidation in coming years. In an earlier paper, McKibbin and Stoeckel explored the effects...

This report maps the US State Department's rapidly growing ediplomacy effort. It reveals State now employs over 150 full-time ediplomacy personnel working in 25 different nodes at Headquarters. More than 900 people use ediplomacy at US missions abroad. The report – the result of a four-month research project in Washington DC and extensive access to...

The Lowy Institute Indonesia Poll reports the results of the Institute’s second opinion poll in Indonesia. The findings challenge many assumptions about Indonesia on issues like attitudes towards Australia and the United States, openness to foreign investment, democracy, trust in other countries, and China’s rise. The 2012 Poll found that Indonesians have dramatically warmed towards...

A close look at the data tells an ambivalent story about China's growth. With most of the developed world still struggling to deliver sustained growth, much is resting on the continued strength of emerging markets in general and of China in particular. China watchers have been debating whether China’s economy is set for a hard...

This new paper in the Lowy Institute's Afghan Voices series provides two very different perspectives on Australia’s military and development efforts in Uruzgan. The first comes in the form of excerpts from an uncompleted draft on the subject by Omaid Khpalwak, an Afghan journalist tragically killed in July of this year. The second is an...