Economic development
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Illuminating the local: can non-formal institutions be complementary to health system development in Papua New Guinea?
This paper offers a fresh insight into the performance and reform opportunities of the formal health system of Papua New Guinea. A central tenant of this paper is that the historically imposed and continuing top-down nature of the formal health system in PNG is not capitalizing on potentially positive incentives and motivations inherent in the...
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Rethinking health sector wide approaches through the lens of aid effectiveness
Sector Wide Approaches (SWAps) are an approach to aid management that aim to support recipient government leadership. Health aid has grown rapidly in the past 20 years and in this time SWAps have become an important health aid delivery approach. However, the empirical evidence is that the performance of health SWAps is, at best, mixed...
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The development of Australia's federal critical infrastructure policy, 1978 – 2010
Australia’s strategy for managing national security is set out in a number of complex and interrelated policy documents that span multiple agencies. This paper summarises key parts of the federal critical infrastructure protection policy trajectory in the period 1978 – 2010. The research was designed to answer the following questions: 1. How has Australia’s federal...
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Shaken not stirred? The development of one tertiary education sector in Australia
Mixed-sector tertiary education institutions are still only small in number and remain relatively under-researched. This project examines universities that offer a small amount of VET and private providers that offer both VET and higher education, building on previous research examining TAFEs that offer higher education. This research suggests that mixed-sector and dual-sector providers are likely...
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Global risks 2012
This report is based on a survey of 469 experts from industry, government, academia and civil society that examines 50 global risks across five categories.