Questions over Australian 'temporary' foreign aid fund
An economics professor anticipates more aid funding from the Australian government, despite cuts in its latest budget. Australia pared back its foreign aid spending by nearly $500 million, but it also announced additional short term funding of $AU335 million to help countries, such as Papua New Guinea, cope with Covid-19. This additional funding will stop after two years. Photo: Long Zheng/ CC BY-SA 2.0 The director of the Development Policy Centre at the Australian National University, Stephen Howes, said this is not realistic. "Although the Budget was disappointing in the sense of embedding...