Roland Rajah

Development Futures: The 2025 Southeast Asia Aid Map and global aid cuts

Development Futures: Aid in Shambles: The dismantling of USAID

The case for an Indo-Pacific Economic Resilience Bank

Australia should make a strategic investment in the World Bank

Downsides abound but there’s also a path where developing nations benefit.

Progress is at risk unless the world redoubles efforts at poverty eradication.

This commentary was originally published by the Cambodia Development Resource Institute.

Development Futures: Pat Conroy MP on Australia’s new ... - The Interpreter

Paris Climate Summit: A New Global Financing Pact Takes Shape

Economic Security and the Future of the Global Order in the Indo-Pacific - a thought piece written for Perry World House.

Indo-Pacific infrastructure development financing: an agenda for Australia and Europe

Southeast Asia is one of the most economically and developmentally successful regions in the world. But the region faces numerous challenges — from fragmenting globalisation and escalating geopolitical tensions to accelerating digital disruption and the mounting costs of climate change. Internal domestic challenges also loom large. What will it take for Southeast Asia to continue to succeed? Is a new approach to development needed?

Digitalisation is helping the top and the bottom, but jobs are a big concern.

Despite being on track to become the world’s largest economy, China will struggle to avoid a future of significantly slower long-term growth.

Towards a Better Vaccine Diplomacy

In this episode, Lowy Institute lead economist Roland Rajah is joined by Dr Vijaya Ramachandran and Dr Sam Geall to discuss the outcomes from the COP26 Glasgow Climate Change Conference and the deeper rifts in international climate policy and politics.

Southeast Asia’s post-pandemic recovery outlook

The Pacific’s post-pandemic economic revival will rely on an internationalmulti-year recovery package of grants and loans led by Australia

Two thirds of the world trade more goods with China than with the US.

Debt-trap diplomacy not happening yet, but cause for concern