Economist Warned of IEPS Risks, Corruption in 2018

Charles Darwin University

WHO: Associate Professor in Northern Australia Development at the Northern Institute Faculty of Arts and Humanities, Charles Darwin University (CDU), Pascal Tremblay. Associate Professor Tremblay is an expert in applied economics and policy evaluation analysis, related to Northern Australia and remote Australian regions. TOPICS:

  • Manipulation of public procurement rules to connect major projects with achieving complex social and economic goals costs the public and rarely advance anything.
  • Co-author of report for the Regional Australia Institute (2018) that found deliberate attempts to assist various groups internationally have usually led to significant costs to the public purse, enhanced risks of corruption and fraud, and produced very limited demonstrable or sustainable improvements in economic participation of the vulnerable cohorts they targeted, often resulting in increased dependency on those programs.
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