Month: October 2018
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How bad government can ruin a country: the case of Zimbabwe
From https://crawford.anu.edu.au/news-events/events/13176/how-bad-government-can-ruin-country-case-zimbabwe Speaker: David Gadiel is a Senior Fellow in the Health Program at The Centre for Independent Studies. He emigrated from Zimbabwe (then Southern Rhodesia) in the 1960s and is a former development economist. Date & time: Tuesday 30 October 2018 2.00pm–3.30pm Venue: Seminar Room 2, Crawford School of Public Policy, 132 Lennox Crossing,
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Australian aid stakeholder survey 2018
Australian aid stakeholder survey For those who haven’t had completed it yet, the deadline for the ANU’s Devpolicy 2018 Australian aid stakeholder survey has been extended to Monday 22 October. The survey focuses on the effectiveness of the Australian Government aid program and will provide suggestions for its improvement. The survey is open to anyone
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Examining Recent African Mining Conferences
Revised topic for the second talk in the African Discussion Group series “Examining Recent African Mining Conferences: Lessons learnt re Governments, the African Union, Corporates, NGOs and communities. It will include a joint round table discussion of what are essentially Africa wide governance issues, with the students (and others) contributing from their own country’s experiences,
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The ANU’s Ceri Shipton named as Australia’s Leader in the Research Field of African Studies and History
The September 2018 issue of the Research Supplement of The Australian was devoted to ‘The Stars of 2018’. Pages 36-38 were devoted to Australia’s Australia’s Research Field Leaders and Institutions in the Humanities, Arts and Literature. Dr Ceri Shipton of the ANU was named as the Field Leader in African Studies and History, while Charles