Since 2013, restrictions on the provision of legal aid and changes to social, legal and welfare services have significantly increased demand for legal services in Australia, while simultaneously increasing the extent of unmet legal need. In this climate of austerity, a robust debate over the...

A review of Canada-Indonesia trade, aid and investment relations during the New Order era, 1967-83. It is a case study of how two middle-ranking powers have sought to define a meaningful economic relationship that recognizes similarities and complementarities, and the problems which they face in...

Migration has become a major concern of European development policies. By improving socio-economic and political conditions through development cooperation, a reduction of South-North migration flows is envisaged. This new approach is examined by analyzing the causes of asylum migration from...

This chapter investigates the extent to which the European Union (EU)1 has incorporated climate change into its development cooperation policy. It describes the EU’s development cooperation policy, its evolution and its main principles (see Section 6.2), and focuses on the process of...

2014 will be an important milestone for shaping the policy field of development cooperation in a post-2015 context. Two central events are taking place. The Global Partnership for Effective Development Cooperation (GPEDC) will convene for its first High-Level Meeting in April 2014 in Mexico...

In conjunction to the UN General Assembly held in September 2019, UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterrez convened the first UN Climate Action Summit. Recognizing that the international community has so far failed to adequately combat the causes and consequence of climate change, the Summit was...

Rules of origin are those laws and regulations that are applied to determine the country of origin of goods. Upon the importation of a product, each country applies its own rules of origin to determine the origin of the product. Such origin rules are known as “non-preferential rules of...

This paper examines the Right to Development (RtD) in the context of the ongoing negotiations to finalize Economic Partnership Agreements (EPAs) that African, Caribbean and Pacific (ACP) countries are signing with the European Union (EU). These EPAs are being negotiated within the Cotonou...

We present a two-step approach of assessing whether major donors of foreign aid have met recent demands for less proliferated and better coordinated aid efforts. First, we calculate Theil indices revealing the concentration of each donor's aid on recipient countries and specific aid sectors....