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Robin Davies
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100 days of Trump: what should Asia do?
Overview Once again, Trump has broken the mould. The 100-day mark is traditionally used to assess a new administration’s progress in advancing its policy agenda. With Trump, that’s impossible. In foreign policy at least, it’s more appropriate to ask whether at the 100-day mark the Trump administration is any closer to actually having a policy...
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Too global to fail: the World Bank at the intersection of national and global public policy in 2025
This report is about global public goods, particularly those related to the environment, in the context of the global development process. Summary This report contends that global sustainability depends (indeed, consists of) the provision of certain global public goods, and that the prevailing approach to development assistance does not sufficiently recognize this fact. A key...
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Making development co-operation fit for the future: a survey of partner countries
This paper provides insights into what partner country governments anticipate will be their main development challenges within five to ten years, and into how they expect their relationships with Development Assistance Committee development assistance providers to evolve in order to meet these challenges Abstract
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Development and the G20
This publication examines what role the G20 can play in international development. Key findings: Development is a key component of the G20, but there are concerns over the effectiveness of the current development agenda. The criticism includes that the development agenda is too diffuse and mostly distant to the G20’s main activities. But the G20...