UPNG students are very pessimistic about their country's future according to survey results reported by Kelly Samof and ...

Introducing free agency would have some symbolic value. But it is not feasible for short-term PALM workers. It would reduce demand for long-term PALM workers, have low take-up, do little to reduce ...

The Australasian AID Conference will be held on 3-5 December 2024 in Canberra. Tickets now on sale! The Devpolicy Blog is based at the Development Policy Centre, Crawford School of Public Policy, ...

More than 80% of people in PNG live in rural areas and more than 60% of them are multidimensionally poor. It is therefore reasonable for Andrew Anton Mako to ask why a greater share of budget spending ...

The Indonesian government enacted Act 6 of 2014 to decentralise village governance, aiming to improve service delivery at the local level. Under President Jokowi’s leadership, village governments ...

At the 2024 United Nations General Assembly, PNG’s Prime Minister James Marape said he wanted to make PNG a high-income economy by 2045. But this will not be easy. To improve living standards for its ...

The first blog in this two-part series made two main points: that the total number of Pacific Australia Labour Mobility (PALM) scheme workers on farms is falling, and that the number of PALM workers ...

Data just released from the Australian Department of Employment and Workplace Relations shows a sharp decline in Pacific workers engaged in short-term (seasonal) agricultural work, with the total ...

The Australasian AID Conference will be held on 3-5 December 2024 in Canberra. Tickets now on sale! The Devpolicy Blog is based at the Development Policy Centre, Crawford School of Public Policy, ...

There was no fanfare. Just a statement from the New Zealand foreign minister, slipped out quietly amongst the usual stream of government announcements. As best I can tell only one news organisation ...

The PNG Independent Consumer and Competition Commission (ICCC) proposed an amendment to the Prices Regulation Act in August that would allow it to “ensure the application of unilateral price controls ...