Books

• Too Global To Fail: The World Bank at the Intersection of National and Global Public Policy in 2025, Directions in Development, World Bank, December 2014 (co-edited with J. Warren Evans)

Peer-reviewed publications

• ‘New directions for development finance: perspectives from developing countries’, a Special Issue of Development Policy Review, Vol. 35, Issue Supplement S1, July 2017 (co-edited with Jonathan Pickering and Annalisa Prizzon)
• ‘How Should Development Cooperation Evolve? Views from Developing Countries’, Development Policy Review, Vol. 35, Issue Supplement S1, July 2017 (with Jonathan Pickering)
• ‘Survey of Recent Developments’, Bulletin of Indonesian Economic Studies, Vol, 50, No. 2, pp. 157-183, August 2014 (with Stephen Howes)

Book chapters

• ‘Trump and development: aid, migration and the Beijing consensus’, in The Trump Administration’s First 100 Days: What Should Asia Do?, ANU College of Asia and the Pacific, April 2017
• The unexamined gift: Australia’s aid relationship with Indonesia’, forthcoming in Strangers Next Door? Indonesia and Australia in the Asian Century, eds. Tim Lindsey and Dave McRae
• ‘The indivisibility of prosperity: the G20’s development agenda’, in The G20 and the Future of International Economic Governance, edited by Mike Callaghan and Tristram Sainsbury, Lowy Institute for International Policy, UNSW Press, November 2015
• ‘FAO’s relevance, competence and prospects: some reflections on Hallam’s “Turbulence and Reform in the United Nations Food and Agriculture Organisation” ’, in The Politics of International Organisations: Views from insiders, edited by Patrick Weller and Xu Yi-chong, Routledge, May 2015

Working papers

• ‘Duelling donors: competitive advantage in the international development assistance marketplace’, in progress, anticipated completion June 2017 (with Christian Freres Kuer, Spanish Agency for International Development)
• Public enemies: the role of global public goods in aid policy narratives, Development Policy Centre Discussion Paper No. 57, March 2017
• Making Development Co-operation Fit for the Future, OECD Development Co-operation Working Paper No. 20, February 2015 (with Jonathan Pickering)
• Enterprise Challenge Funds for Development: Rationales, Objectives, Approaches, Development Policy Centre Discussion Paper No. 36, August 2014 (with Kerri Elgar)
• When Business Meets Aid: Analysing Public-Private Partnerships for International Development, Development Policy Centre Discussion Paper No. 28, April 2013 (with Margaret Callan)
• Global sustainability – the sequel, Development Policy Centre Discussion Paper No. 19, June 2012

Policy briefs

• Allocation priorities for Australia’s 2017 aid budget, Development Policy Centre Policy Brief No. 18, April 2017 (with Bob McMullan)
• Measuring Australia’s foreign aid generosity, from Menzies to Turnbull, Development Policy Centre Policy Brief No. 16, February 2016
• Aid law: what is it good for?, Development Policy Centre Policy Brief No. 14, June 2016 (with Camilla Burkot)
• Aid’s new contours: an exploration of global aid flows in 2014, Development Policy Centre Policy Brief No. 13, April 2016
• A global humanitarian fund: a policy proposal, Development Policy Centre Policy Brief No. 12, March 2016
• Global aid in 2013: a pause before descending, Development Policy Centre Policy Brief No. 7, October 2013 (with Michelle la O’)
• Separated at birth? - How to tell Labor and the Coalition apart on aid and development, Development Policy Centre Policy Brief No. 6, August 2013

Reports and submissions

• ‘Submission to the Foreign Policy White Paper’, Submission in response to the Australian government’s call for public submissions in connection with its 2017 foreign policy White Paper process, February 2017 (with Stephen Howes, Terence Wood, Matthew Dornan and Henry Sherrell)
• ‘Toward more open aid: aid transparency in Australia’s Open Government Partnership National Action Plan’, Submission in response to the Australian government’s call for public comment on a draft version of Australia’s first Open Government Partnership National Action Plan, 17 November 2016
• ‘Sticker shock: what the AIIB will cost the Australian aid program’, Submission to the Inquiry into the Asian Infrastructure Investment Bank Bill 2015 (Provisions), 24 September 2015
• Submission to the Joint Standing Committee on Foreign Affairs, Defence and Trade’s inquiry into the role of the private sector in promoting economic growth and reducing poverty in the Indo-Pacific region, May 2014 (with Margaret Callan)
• Submission to the G20 Food Security Review on behalf of the Think Tank 20 (T20) engagement group, March 2014 (with Lorraine Elliott and Paul Belesky)
• Submission to DFAT on performance benchmarks for the Australian aid program, February 2014 (with Stephen Howes)
• Submission to the Senate Inquiry into Australia’s overseas aid and development assistance program, February 2014 (with Stephen Howes)
• Australia’s engagement with the African Development Bank: A submission to the Senate Foreign Affairs, Defence and Trade Legislation Committee’s inquiry into the provisions of the African Development Bank Bill 2013, July 2013
• Helping Timor-Leste implement a regional employment strategy: A submission to the Joint Standing Committee on Foreign Affairs, Defence and Trade’s inquiry into Australia’s relationship with Timor-Leste, April 2013 (with Richard Curtain and Stephen Howes)
• Fowl or Fish? A submission to the ACIAR Review, December 2012 (with Stephen Howes)
• AgResults: Innovation in Research and Delivery, Concept Note, prepared on behalf of the AgResults Donor Steering Committee prior to launch of the AgResults initiative at the G20’s Los Cabos Summit

Podcast interviews

• Bill Armstrong, former Chief Executive Officer, Australian Volunteers International, 29 September 2016
• Phillip Passmore (Part 1 and Part 2), pharmaceutical management expert and international development consultant, 23 September 2016
• Helen Evans, former Deputy Executive Director, Gavi Alliance, 1 September 2016
• Michael Flynn, Executive Director, Global Detention Project, May 2016
• Inge Kaul (Part 1 and Part 2), Adjunct Professor, Hertie School of Governance, Berlin, 1 April 2015

Other publications

• Look to the Forests: How Performance Payments Can Slow Climate Change, Report of the Working Group on Scaling Up Performance-Based Transfers for Reduced Tropical Deforestation, Center for Global Development, 14 October 2015
• Financing the SDGs: Global vs Local Public Goods, a dialogue with Inge Kaul, in the Policy Debates series associated with the journal International Development Policy, Graduate Institute of International and Development Studies, Geneva, June 2015
• What Plot? – Rationalising the G20’s Development Agenda, in ‘Development and the G20’, G20 Monitor No. 5, Lowy Institute for International Policy, August 2013
• The Future of International Development in Asia and the Pacific, Background Paper for a conference organised jointly by the Australian National University, the University of Melbourne, the Asia Foundation and the Lowy Institute for International Policy, 9-10 May 2013 (with Anthea Mulakala and Annmaree O’Keeffe)

Blog posts and opinion pieces

• Devpolicy blogs
• East Asia Forum blogs
• Australian Aid Profiles
• The Conversation blogs
• ‘Australia’s aid for land-mine removal in dramatic decline’, The Canberra Times, 30 August 2016 (with Bob McMullan)
• ‘The world needs a humanitarian fund to assist long-term crises’, Global Development Professionals Network, The Guardian, 13 April 2016
• ‘Australia’s billion dollar aid cut: Indonesia gets it, or everybody does’, Global Development Professionals Network, The Guardian, 17 February 2015
• ‘No tipping, please: Australia’s contradictory stance on the UN climate fund’, The Public Sector Informant, The Canberra Times, 2 December 2014 (also published in The Age)
• ‘President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono’s second-term development scorecard’, The Establishment Post, 14 August 2014
• ‘Aid and asylum seekers: an unhappy marriage’, Rights Agenda, monthly bulletin of the Human Rights Law Centre, Edition 90, 12 November 2013
• ‘Bending AusAID or breaking it?’, The Public Sector Informant, The Canberra Times, 1 October 2013
• Foreign aid policy head-to-head: what would the Coalition do?, Crikey, 23 August 2013
• A New Aid Order in the Asian Century, In Asia, the blog of The Asia Foundation, 29 May 2013 (with Graham Brown, Anthea Mulakala and Annmaree O’Keeffe)
• Asian Development Bank defies G20, East Asia Forum, 27 April 2013 (with Stephen Howes and Ashlee Betteridge)
• ADB defies G20 on hiring a new chief, Australian Financial Review, 29 April 2013 (with Stephen Howes and Ashlee Betteridge)