Alexandre Dayant is a senior economist and deputy director of the Indo-Pacific Development Centre, a dedicated policy research center within the Lowy Institute. Riley Duke is a research fellow at the Lowy Institute and co-author of the Lowy Institute's Pacific Aid Map.
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