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Last month, Prime Minister Sitiveni Rabuka opened Fiji’s new embassy in Jerusalem. My Inside Story report looks at recent Pacific diplomatic support for Israel - a sharp contrast to international condemnation of Israeli policy in Gaza and the occupied West Bank.
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Palestine and the Pacific • Nic Maclellan
Why have island nations been so prominent among supporters of Israel?
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Australians are becoming more supportive of aid spending over time. My latest blog post from our public opinion survey data. Very surprised by trends among conservative voters: devpolicy.org/australians-... @amitam.bsky.social
Australians are becoming more supportive of aid – slowly - Devpolicy Blog from the Development Policy Centre
Australians on the right and the left of the political spectrum are now more supportive of aid than they once were, says Terence Wood.
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Very useful discussion of some key development economics myths: voxdev.org/topic/mythbu...
Mythbusters: Development economics edition
Economic research plays a very useful role in testing our priors and establishing when widely held beliefs turn out to be false.
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Of windmills and windbags, @pkrugman.bsky.social debunks nonsense from the usual suspects on the rise of renewable energy and the decline of coal: open.substack.com/pub/paulkrug...
Fossil Fuels and Fossilized Minds
What’s driving the doomed attempt to revive coal?
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Thanks to the New Cold War the 2024 Solomon Islands elections ended up on the international stage. How did things work out? A lot better than the pundits predicted. My new open access journal article on what happened: www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
A New and Unfamiliar Sea: Politics, Geopolitics and the 2024 General Elections in Solomon Islands
The 2024 elections in Solomon Islands received an unusual amount of international attention, much of it focused on China. The elections were unusual in a range of ways: parties appeared to become m...
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NZ and Australia on this list. Overreach. responsiblestatecraft.org/drug-war-aumf/
Proposed war authorization could allow Trump to target 60+ countries
An 'insanely broad' draft AUMF could provide the president with wide latitude to go after supposed 'narco-terrorists'
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by Terence Wood

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Globally, an increasing share of people say they feel safer walking at home at night, though it varies from country to country obviously, and is gendered too.
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The latest on US aid. Likely lessons to emerge from this: vertical funds are ok actually if they get medicines to people in need; in poorly governed states NGOs are a good alternative; well given aid doesn't cause poor governance, domestic political economy does. www.nytimes.com/2025/09/18/u...
U.S. to Cut Out Nongovernmental Groups in Refocusing Health Aid
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A blast from the past. What Australia thought about the Pacific during the Old Cold War (1987): nla.gov.au/nla.obj-3381...
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This is very helpful. From PNG's NRI a bibliography of all chapters, papers, studies etc. on elections in Papua New Guinea: pngnri.org/images/Publi...
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File under trivial curiosities: in the 2002 general election in Papua New Guinea a party called National Front stood 30 candidates. My guess is that their ideology was somewhat different from their northern hemisphere namesakes.

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Interesting on attitudes to Israel in the Pacific. In North Malaita there are actually people who believe they are lost tribe of Israelites. Other support is to do with evangelical Christianity and the internet. www.theguardian.com/world/2025/s...
As censure increases over war in Gaza, Israel finds support among Pacific Islands
Countries including Fiji, Papua New Guinea and Tonga have given Israel vital backing at the UN
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What might the Trump administration's proposed pocket rescission mean for aid flows? Good explainer on @cgdev.org: www.cgdev.org/blog/pocket-...
The Pocket Rescission Gambit: Trump's Strategy to Cut Foreign Aid Without Congressional Approval
Official word came Friday that the administration would pursue a pocket rescission of $4.9 billion in international assistance funding. The move sets the stage for a larger fight over Congress’s const...
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by Terence Wood

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Is Australian climate adaptation aid really on the rise? Alyssa Leng and I dug into the data. Much of the rise is due to recoding of projects. To make matters worse projects are now more likely to have an adaptation focus in countries less vulnerable to climate change: devpolicy.org/assessing-au...
Assessing Australia's climate adaptation aid - Devpolicy Blog from the Development Policy Centre
In the rush to increase climate finance, Australia is focusing more attention on climate adaptation in places where it is needed less, say Wood and Leng.
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New Zealand's development NGOs need to take action on Gaza: terencew.substack.com/p/new-zealan...

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Papua New Guinea's state-owned electricity company is trading while insolvent, with insiders describing the situation as "hopeless" and "untenable".
PNG's only electricity provider more than $1.5 billion in debt
Papua New Guinea's state-owned electricity company is trading while insolvent, with insiders describing the situation as "hopeless" and "untenable".
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Reposted by: Terence Wood, Daniel W. Drezner, Bessma Momani

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NEW: 50% of Americans think Israel is committing genocide in Gaza, including 77% of Democrats and 51% of Independents.

60% of Americans oppose sending Israel more military aid for use in the Gaza war, including 75% of Democrats and 66% of Independents.

Quinnipiac poll: poll.qu.edu/poll-release...
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Reposted by: Terence Wood, Anna O. Law, Kim L. Scheppele , and 12 more

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🚨Border Patrol arrested two firefighters who were actively fighting a wildfire at the time.

When the other members of the crew asked for a chance to say goodbye, a Border Patrol agent told the crew member “you need to get the f*ck out of here. I’m going to make you leave.”
In images shared by firefighters from the scene, a U.S. Customs and Border Protection vehicle is parked nearby. Officers wearing "Police" vests are seen arresting a firefighter, while another appears to be restrained. According to one of the firefighters, they were denied the chance to say goodbye to the detained crew members. "I asked them if his (family) can say goodbye to him because they're family, and they're just ripping them away," the firefighter told the Times. "And this is what he said: 'You need to get the (expletive) out of here. I'm gonna make you leave.'"
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Good post on @cgdev.org from @ianmitchell1.bsky.social & Sam Hughes. How and where should the UK focus its aid amidst cuts. www.cgdev.org/blog/uks-aid...
As the UK’s Aid Cuts Begin, Which Countries Should the FCDO Protect?
The UK government is finalising country finance allocations, with £3 billion in cuts to its international budget planned over the next two years. Here, we offer recommendations on which countries to p...
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by Terence Wood

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Does news of US aid cuts change Australians' attitudes to aid? Today's blog answers this question drawing on our latest survey experiment. It also details broader trends in Australian attitudes to aid. devpolicy.org/have-trumps-... @amitam.bsky.social @leecrawfurd.bsky.social
Have Trump’s cuts made Australians kinder? 2025 aid attitudes survey - Devpolicy Blog from the Development Policy Centre
Australians are less hostile to the Australian Government spending on aid than they were a year ago, say Terence Wood and Cameron Hill.
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Reposted by: Terence Wood, Michael A. Clemens

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Pra encerrar a noite com chave de ouro
Moraes dá 48h para Bolsonaro explicar descumprimento de cautelares que pode gerar prisão preventiva
Risco de fuga e obstrução no curso do processo podem fazer o ex-presidente perder o direito de permanecer com tornozeleira em casa
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Reposted by: Terence Wood, Brendan Nyhan, Paul E. Johnson

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Such an important article by @jakescottmd.bsky.social looking at the “evidence” used by RFKjr to support the decision to revoke mrna vaccine research: omit s large studies, misrepresents data, uses irrelevant studies and done without science ie immunology expertise 🧪
Kennedy's case against mRNA vaccines collapses under his own evidence
“This isn't scientific disagreement. It's either staggering incompetence or willful misrepresentation,” writes infectious disease physician Jake Scott.
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by Terence Wood

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The latest on the complexities of US aid cuts from @charlesjkenny.bsky.social : www.cgdev.org/blog/fixing-...
Fixing the Spending Crisis at the Department of State
The House Appropriations Committee has advanced a spending bill that suggests bipartisan support for continuing a similar level of global health funding next fiscal year. If realized that could help p...
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Good new paper by @leecrawfurd.bsky.social. Investing in basic education delivers. www.cgdev.org/blog/childre...
Children Who Can Read and Count at Age Ten Earn More Later in Life: New Evidence from Indonesia
Children with stronger foundational reading and math skills go on to earn about 11 percent more as adults, even after accounting for family background and years of schooling. These skills offer value ...
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I thought the paper was convincing. This take a good additional point. I'm curious though as to why there was no impact on economic performance. Poorly designed programme, too small a programme to have a visible impact, too soon to for the impact to be clear?
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Dani Rodrik @drodrik.bsky.social · Aug 12
Agreed, though the paper cited at the outset claims to answer your question. But a real test for “deliverism” would check whether policy delivered the desired economic outcomes. It turns out GDP in Texarkana actually grew less rapidly than nation as a whole, and unemployment fell at slower pace.

by Dani Rodrik — Reposted by: Terence Wood

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Agreed, though the paper cited at the outset claims to answer your question. But a real test for “deliverism” would check whether policy delivered the desired economic outcomes. It turns out GDP in Texarkana actually grew less rapidly than nation as a whole, and unemployment fell at slower pace.
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by Terence Wood

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Devpolicy's new Australian Aid Transparency Audit is out. Not much good news in the world of aid at present, but Australian aid has become a lot more transparent, which is great: devpolicy.org/2025-develop... @amitam.bsky.social
How transparent is Australian aid? - Devpolicy Blog from the Development Policy Centre
Australian aid transparency has improved markedly but there is scope for further improvement, say Terence Wood & Estelle Stambolie.
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by Terence Wood

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Note to self the @qoginstitute.bsky.social data tool is amazingly comprehensive and easy to use: datafinder.qog.gu.se/dataset/fe Where has it been all my life...
QoG Data
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by Yanis Varoufakis — Reposted by: Terence Wood

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60,000 Gazans have been killed. 18,500 were children.
These are their names.
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60,000 Gazans have been killed. 18,500 were children. These are their names.
Palestinian children have been killed at a rate of more than one per hour since the war began.
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by Terence Wood

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The suppression of free speech in the UK at present beggars belief.
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DK Renton @davidkr.bsky.social · Jul 30
Post from me in today’s @lrb.co.uk reflecting on the Palestine Action judgment
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London Review of Books @lrb.co.uk · Jul 30
‘Since October 2023, the police and the Crown Prosecution Service have held that anyone expressing support for any act of resistance to Israel is thereby expressing support for Hamas.’

NEW: David Renton on the legal challenge to the Palestine Action ban
www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...

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