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Development Policy Centre. Aid, political economy, the Pacific. Now only posting here on murderous US aid freeze. See: @terencewoodnz.bsky.social
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Disappointing, predictable and surprising: Devpolicy’s latest aid opinion poll

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By Terence Wood
| Devpolicy Blog
We’ve just received the results back from our latest poll of Australians’ attitudes to aid. The results were simultaneously disappointing, all too predictable and surprising. Let’s start with disappointment. As the chart below shows, whereas last year I concluded that Australians’ views about aid had been shakily improving, in this year’s poll the share of people who think their country gives too much aid has risen considerably.
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PNG elections: the time to worry was then

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By Terence Wood
| Devpolicy Blog
It’s becoming routine now. Papua New Guinea holds an election. There are irregularities, allegations, omissions, bad decisions and tragedies. The problems are so bad that, for a brief moment, the country’s political elites take notice, organise a review, launch the review and then — with the occasional exception — appear to lose all interest.
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Candidate numbers and electoral outcomes in Papua New Guinea

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By Terence Wood, Maholopa Laveil
| Devpolicy Blog
Over the years psephologists and pundits have made use of all manner of different approaches to predict election outcomes. Polls are, of course, the most obvious one and — notwithstanding the occasional high-profile failures — generally work quite well. Another approach, often referred to as the Fundamentals Approach, involves taking key variables, often associated with economic performance, to estimate electoral outcomes. In some countries this has worked surprisingly well.
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