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

This post summarises a research dissertation on the same topic. In May 2024, a landslide in Enga Province buried more than 2,000 people and displaced an estimated 1,680 others. Both Prime Minister ...

Much of Ron Duncan’s research was concerned with the Pacific and he lived in Fiji from 2003 to 2007 when he headed the Pacific Institute of Advanced Studies in Development and Governance (PIAS-DG) at ...

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 ...

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

Penny Morton is currently Assistant Secretary in the Multilateral Policy Branch at Australia's Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade. She was previously Minister-Counsellor at the Australian High ...

This article is the second in a two-part series on Wave Two of the Pacific Labour Mobility Survey. Read part 1. Labour mobility is often presented as a “triple win”, for workers and their families, ...

This article is the first in a two-part series on Wave Two of the Pacific Labour Mobility Survey. Read part 2. The Development Policy Centre and the World Bank recently carried out consultations in ...

At the start of last year, we analysed trends in the value of the kina (the PNG currency). We noted that although, as per government policy, the kina had fallen against the US dollar, it had hardly ...

This report sheds light on the nature of political will towards anti-corruption reform in PNG, through a rapid political economy analysis approach, with a view to informing and improving policy ...

This report covers the 2025 Australian Aid Transparency Audit run by the ANU Development Policy Centre. The Centre audits Australian aid program transparency every three years – previous audits were ...

Timor-Leste has a reputation for having some of the slowest and most expensive internet services in the world. But things are beginning to change. Timor-Leste is one of the last countries in the ...