Fred Fisk has a good claim to be regarded as the Australian National University’s first development economist, argues John Conroy in a new book.

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Australia’s foreign aid (Official Development Assistance or ODA) for 2025-26 is budgeted at $5.097 billion, a 2.7% increase ...

The 2025-26 federal budget will see Australian Official Development Assistance (ODA) remain largely steady in real terms at an estimated $5.097 billion in the coming financial year, or 0.18% of Gross ...

The continuing prohibition on girls’ education beyond Year 6 imposes a profound burden on Afghan society and the economy, ...

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The Devpolicy Blog is based at the Development Policy Centre, Crawford School of Public Policy, College of Asia and the Pacific, The Australian National University. Posts on the Devpolicy Blog are ...

The Devpolicy Blog is based at the Development Policy Centre, Crawford School of Public Policy, College of Asia and the Pacific, The Australian National University.

World War II plunged Fred Fisk into the emerging field of ‘development’ in colonial Malaya. Feeling inadequate to the task, he looked to the 1950s literature – Amar Narain Agarwala, Sampat Pal Singh, ...