After a disastrous first couple of decades following independence in 1968, Nauru turned its economic fortunes around in the ...

Can the Pacific Resilience Facility and PIF's emergency mechanism deliver as a Super El Niño tests the region's new climate ...

Australian and international aid agencies have launched emergency appeals in response to the Venezuela earthquake. So far, the disaster has resulted in over 1,400 deaths, with tens of thousands of ...

Ever since the effective closure of the Strait of Hormuz, policymakers worldwide have been asking themselves two important questions: how will households cope, and what support do they want from their ...

Emeritus Professor Ronald (Ron) Charles Duncan AO was my former boss and mentor, and over time became a close family friend. With Ron, Premila and I always said we got “two friends for the price of ...

What’s in a name? Can a name drive peace? I recently came across a scholar with a fascinating focus: how personal naming practices can be used to promote peace. There is a broad literature on names as ...

Raymond Kamb John is a lecturer and Head of the Human Resource Management Division at the School of Business and Public Policy at the University of Papua New Guinea. His teaching and research focuses ...

The surge in global oil prices following the US-Iran conflict has exposed the extent of Pacific economies’ vulnerability to fuel supply shocks. At its peak, prices climbed to over US$118 per barrel, ...

The two speakers will present their joint work with Chris Hoy, Matias Strehl-Pessina, Ruggero Doino and Darian Naidoo. This co-authored paper examines the pass-through and distributional incidence of ...

In a new Development Policy Centre discussion paper, we examine how institutional design shapes patterns of cooperation, competition and conflict in developing countries, focusing on civil service ...

Vanuatu’s prevalence of physical or sexual violence against women by husbands and partners has fallen by nine percentage points over the last 15 years — from 44% of ever-partnered women aged 15-49 in ...

This article reports on ongoing monitoring of mobile internet prices in Papua New Guinea (PNG) and shows that prices remained stable throughout 2025. This policy-relevant research is taking place amid ...