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Cutting-edge Australian, regional and global thinking on the future of Indo-Pacific development
The Indo-Pacific Development Centre (IPDC) is a policy research centre at the Lowy Institute dedicated to generating fresh policy insights and ideas on the most pressing economic development issues in the Indo-Pacific region. The IPDC focuses on key challenges facing emerging and developing economies in Southeast Asia, the Pacific Islands and South Asia as well as the role of more advanced Indo-Pacific economies such as Australia, the United States, Japan, China and others in helping shape the future economic development of the region.
The work of the IPDC is organised around six key themes:
As part of its development finance pillar, the IPDC houses the Lowy Institute’s Pacific Aid Map, a digital interactive that tracks all official development finance flows to the Pacific region.
The IPDC has been established with the support of multi-year funding from the Australian Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade.

Policy Brief by Melanie Pill, Georgia Hammersley + 1 other

Interactive by Riley Duke, Alexandre Dayant + 2 others

Report by Riley Duke, Alexandre Dayant + 2 others