Browsing: Development & Policy

In Part 1 of this series, the author set out the census evidence that I-Kiribati are under-represented in Pacific migration…

Although generally positive, the 2025 OECD Development Assistance Committee (DAC) peer review of Australian aid, discussed on this blog by…

This is the first in a three-part series in which the author, an I-Kiribati researcher, argues that Australia’s and New…

As demonstrated in the previous article in this two-part series, Pacific publishers have seen sharp, unexplained falls in their Facebook…

Facebook is strangling Pacific journalism, with some news organisations losing up to 70% of their audience almost overnight. The sudden…

Australian aid At its triennial national conference, the Australian Labor Party adopted its latest policy platform which says that the…

Recent developments surrounding Papua New Guinea’s entry into Australia’s National Rugby League (NRL) through the PNG Chiefs have generated understandable…

Consider a small island developing state (SIDS) such as Tonga. In 2023, remittance inflows reached approximately 43% of GDP, making…

Every few years, the global health community confronts a version of the same crisis. A major donor announces funding cuts,…

Papua New Guinea’s many parties in parliament make for fragmented politics. In previous posts, one of us (Laveil) used the…