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Set to ‘transform’ Queensland’s electricity market and improve lives in southern Papua New Guinea (PNG), the recently announced plans for hydro-electricity project in remote PNG to power northern Australia have provoked as much praise as they have condemnation. On the one hand the project may represent a mutually beneficial and […]

Natural Resources are supposed to be the greatest gift a country could discover. Undoubtedly, Australia takes advantage of this gift they have discovered. You can “discover” land and resource, but are you really “discovering” it or just finding it again? In a world where everything is about ‘getting rights to […]

Migration isn’t the problem: How India could boost the capacity of cities and infrastructure through good governance and planning to cope with urban sprawl and decay.

It has been argued that the brain drain’s negative impact may be offset by the higher remittance levels skilled migrants send home. The main finding of this paper, however, is that remittances decrease with the share of migrants with tertiary education. Moreover, remittances seem to increase with source countries’ level […]

The World Commission on Dams is one of the first multilateral efforts to involve global and local civil society of many kinds in deliberations. Do you think it’s a success?