Browsing: Development & Policy

A recent Senate Estimates discussion between Labor Senator Penny Wong, Greens Senator David Shoebridge and several Australian Government officials (from…

People in Kaintiba call their part of Anga’s interior “no man’s land.” Better services, for them, meant being able to…

We arrived in Aseki in the dark and rain. The road had already turned to mud. The climb from Lae…

I have been talking about this since around 2015, long before recent news about Nauru considering a return to its…

The surge in global oil prices following the US-Iran conflict has exposed the extent of Pacific economies’ vulnerability to fuel…

Artificial intelligence (AI) is often discussed as something that will reshape higher education in the future. But for many students,…

One of the more chilling pieces I have read in the last little while is Aarathi Krishnan’s piece “‘A whole…

This article reports on ongoing monitoring of mobile internet prices in Papua New Guinea (PNG) and shows that prices remained…

Vanuatu’s prevalence of physical or sexual violence against women by husbands and partners has fallen by nine percentage points over…

In a new Development Policy Centre discussion paper, we examine how institutional design shapes patterns of cooperation, competition and conflict…