With World Bank President Ajay Banga currently in Australia, @GeorgiaHammers1 and I lay out the strategic case for Australia to support an ambitious IDA21 replenishment. lowyinstitute.org/the-interprete…

Education outcomes in the Pacific are backsliding—participation, performance, and funding are all in decline. Combined with the region's 'youth bulge', the outlook is troubling. Covered in my latest story with Nasirra Ahsan in The Lowy Institute's Interpreter: lowyinstitute.org/the-interprete…

Today, we release the 2024 The Lowy Institute Pacific Aid Map, the most comprehensive database of aid & development flows to the #pacific ever assembled. 14 countries, 97 development partners, over 37,000 projects. Explore the Map and Key Findings Report pacificaidmap.lowyinstitute.org 1/12

After a pandemic slump, China's aid in the Pacific is rebounding with more grants and grassroots projects. Read my analysis with my The Lowy Institute colleague Alexandre Dayant here: lowyinstitute.org/the-interprete…

Cambodia's Ream Naval Base. My latest research on the base. The data is drawn from interviews with the Base Commander and senior Cambodian officials, along with defence & Intel officials from several Southeast Asian countries.

Who trades more with countries around the world, the United States or China? Our latest The Lowy Institute data interactive show how things have changed since 2001.

In 2001, 80 per cent of economies traded more with the United States thank China. New research by the The Lowy Institute's Roland Rajah and Ahmed Albayrak reveals a near complete reversal of that trend in Beijing's favour. interactives.lowyinstitute.org/features/china…

Trump’s second trade war risks unwinding the benefit of his first | Roland Rajah ift.tt/Gwc9V4K

The “dumbest trade war in history” will also damage developing economies that have actually been helping the United States diversify its supply chains away from China. My reaction to the start of Trade Wars 2.0 👇 lowyinstitute.org/the-interprete…

NEW RESEARCH: This interactive map by Roland Rajah and Ahmed Albayrak reveals how global trade with the United States and China has changed since 2001, including changing trade flows based on exports. 🌎interactives.lowyinstitute.org/features/china…

With my colleague Ahmed Albayrak, co-author with Roland Rajah of the The Lowy Institute's brilliant new data snapshot on US-China trade competition: interactives.lowyinstitute.org/features/china…

It was a pleasure to speak to @SMH for this Explainer piece on Trump's trade war. smh.com.au/world/north-am…

Is Vietnam primarily a backdoor for hidden Chinese exports to America? Or a helpful diversification partner? New from me and Ahmed Albayrak. We estimate how much hidden Chinese content is really in Vietnam’s exports to US. lowyinstitute.org/the-interprete…

White House officials cite transhipment concerns as a basis for the high tariffs on Vietnam & Cambodia. Roland Rajah & I find that the majority of the value add in Vietnam's exports are sourced domestically & from non-China sources. lowyinstitute.org/the-interprete…

Great to speak with ABC Pacific’s Lucy Cooper on debt risks in the Pacific. Repeated shocks are pushing some countries toward unsustainable debt levels —particularly those that took on a large volume of Chinese loans in the mid-2010s. abc.net.au/pacific/progra…

Last week, I had the pleasure of speaking to CNN Business about the implications of 'Liberation Day' tariffs on Cambodia and the garment industry. amp-cnn-com.cdn.ampproject.org/c/s/amp.cnn.co…

I wrote for Project Syndicate on Brazil's plans to launch a new climate fund at COP30 - just as wealthy countries cut aid and climate finance becomes more scarce. Now is the time to fix a fragmented, inefficient climate finance system, not add to its complexity. shorturl.at/GgbsH

Thrilled to see that our paper on #Cambodia's growth scenarios with Roland Rajah is publicly available now. See paper and findings here: cdri.org.kh/publication/a-…