2024: A year of transformation in Asia and the Pacific
CHRISTOPH NEDOPIL | The Asia-Pacific region continues to dominate global headlines, with a year full of political shifts, economic developments, climate actions, and strategic… Read More
Inclusive growth and rural development
Explore our publications relating to inclusive growth and rural development including financial inclusion, equitable digital access, and rural development to benefit marginalised populations. This includes financing sustainable agribusiness, the transformation of food systems to enhance sustainability and understanding the Australian and international trade and market systems related to agriculture.
For more information about our research in this area, visit the Inclusive Growth and Rural Development Hub.
Griffith University is aligned with the United Nation’s Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) and committed to tackling global challenges around the following goals.
Resilience and challenges: A decade of insights from the Pacific Islands Export Survey
LUKE HOUGHTON | For the past decade, the Pacific Islands Export Survey, conducted biennially by Pacific Trade Invest (PTI) with support from the Pacific Islands… Read More
Empowering Pacific entrepreneurs: Building a resilient ecosystem for innovation
SHAWN HUNTER, SAMEER DESHPANDE, RON BEVACQUA , JEFF LIEW AND PETER MORGAN | Small-scale enterprises play a pivotal role in the… Read More
Driving economic resilience: Pacific Trade Invest’s decade of progress
LUKE HOUGHTON | Download PDF Citation: Houghton, Luke, 2024, Driving economic resilience: Pacific Trade Investment’s decade of progress, Griffith Asia Institute,… Read More
Enhancing the ecosystem for entrepreneurship and innovation in the Pacific
SHAWN HUNTER, SAMEER DESHPANDE, RON BEVACQUA , JEFF LIEW AND PETER MORGAN | Download PDF Citation: Hunter, Shawn, Deshpande, Sameer,… Read More
Driving economic growth in the Asia-Pacific region through digital financial inclusion
DANANJANI BASNAYAKE, ATHULA NARANPANAWA, SAROJA SELVANATHAN AND JAYATILLEKE S BANDARA | In recent years, digitalisation has become a key driver of financial… Read More
Bridging continents to advance women’s financial inclusion: Lessons from Asia-Pacific and Latin America
SHAWN HUNTER | Financial inclusion is a cornerstone of modern economic development, and it goes beyond just providing access to financial services. The true challenge… Read More
Empowering smallholder farmers through AI: A new era for Vietnam’s agriculture
SARA QUACH THAICHON | Vietnam has undergone a remarkable transformation over the past few decades. From a food-insecure country, it has emerged as one… Read More
Policy trade-offs at the nexus of rural development, nutrition and sustainability: The case of smallholder cattle production in Vietnam
DOMINIC SMITH | More than 2.3 million households—around 10 per cent of the Vietnamese population—rely on small-scale cattle raising as part of their overall… Read More
Labour schemes, remittances and the Pacific: Role for academia
SAKIUSA NABOU | This article will highlight the context that can help change the conversation about the economic and social challenges of the Pacific… Read More
