Browsing: Development & Policy

Fiji is on course to hold its first national referendum. On 2 October, Parliament passed the Constitution (Amendment) Bill 2026…

On the occasion of Papua New Guinea’s 50th anniversary of independence, the government formulated a 20-year roadmap called Roadmap for…

Solomon Islands is scheduled to graduate from the UN list of Least Developed Countries (LDCs) on 13 December 2027. The…

Over the last decade, Chinese lending behaviour in the Pacific has shifted considerably. Increasingly, its financial assistance to the region…

Papua New Guinea’s youth population is substantial — over 40% of the country’s population is under the age of 18.…

Journalists play an important role in every democracy, whether in the Pacific or abroad. They report on government decisions, elections,…

The recent ANU–UPNG book on the economic history of Papua New Guinea, Struggle, Reform, Boom and Bust, divides PNG’s post-independence…

I left it too long but finally made it back to Lesotho. Sadly, most of my Basotho colleagues had passed…

Papua New Guinea has elected only ten women to its Parliament since it became independent in 1975. Of those, only…

In our previous post, we revealed that in the Pacific Engagement Visa’s (PEV) first two years 4,006 visas have been…