Professor Stephen Howes of the Development Policy Centre in the Crawford School of Public Policy, Dr Anthony Swan of the Crawford School of Public Policy, Helen Szoke of Oxfam and independent consultant Angus Barnes take part in this 2013 Aid Budget Forum held at ANU on 15 May 2013.

Many questions surround the 2013-14 aid budget. In the May 2012 budget, the Government pushed back its goal of increasing aid to 0.5 per cent of Gross National Income (GNI) by a year to 2016/17. In response the Opposition removed the timetable from its commitment altogether. To deliver on its promise of a foreign aid increase this year to 0.37 per cent of GNI, the Government needs to increase aid by about $600 million. But will it? As we move towards an election with the government under fiscal pressure, what will the 2013-14 aid budget look like? Will the cuts to the aid budget associated with funding of asylum-seeker costs be reversed? Is the expansion of the aid program to Africa now a thing of the past? And what is happening to the aid effectiveness agenda?

This forum is presented by the Development Policy Centre at the Crawford School of Public Policy at The Australian National University.

For more information: https://crawford.anu.edu.au/events/1428/201314-aid-budget-forum