Ushered into the international development arena around the turn of this century by the German economist Inge Kaul, the concept of a global public good was an abstruse and surprising hit. Variations on it have found their way into most donor countries' aid policy narratives. Kaul herself has...

This paper reports on a survey experiment designed to test whether support for aid is more readily increased by emphasising aid's benefits to the donor country, or by emphasising aid's role in helping people in developing countries. The survey experiment was pre-registered and involved a large,...

The burden of malaria in Solomon Islands, a small island state of approximately 653,500 people and lower-middle-income status, remains among the highest of all countries outside of sub-Saharan Africa. Nevertheless, significant improvements in malaria control have been made in the last 25 years....

This paper reports on public opinion about aid in New Zealand. It details overall levels of support for aid increases as well as views about the purpose of aid. It also reports in aggregate on New Zealander's views about aid effectiveness and development progress. The paper examines the...

A growing body of literature exists studying public support for foreign aid in donor countries. To-date, however, most of this work has focused on publics' views as they currently stand. In this paper I report on the outcomes of three separate survey experiments undertaken to see whether...

This paper analyses survey data to isolate personal traits and beliefs associated with Australians' opinions about Official Development Assistance (ODA), ODA cuts and ODA purpose. The paper shows that support for Australia giving ODA is high in general but higher on the left, among women, among...

Developing countries invest in training skilled workers and can lose part of their investment if those workers emigrate. One response is for the destination countries to design ways to participate in financing skilled emigrants' training before they migrate — linking skill creation and skill...

What does the Australian public think about foreign aid? This Discussion Paper collates and summarises survey and omnibus poll data collected between 2011 and 2015 on a range of topics related to Australian foreign aid. These include opinions related to the value and objectives of foreign aid,...

In this paper we report on content analysis of the websites and social media feeds of 50 Australian aid NGOs. Overall, on average, NGOs devote more of their internet media space to seeking donations than they do to raising public awareness, or encouraging the public to take action on issues....

Pacific Island Countries (PICs) are already experiencing the adverse impact of climate change yet often lack (human and financial) resources to meet the challenges of changing climatic conditions. This paper examines adaptation aid committed to recipient countries in the Pacific between 2010 and...