Browsing: Development & Policy

National Goal 4 of the preamble of Papua New Guinea’s Constitution calls for the wise use of PNG’s resources for…

The mining and extractive industries generate large economic rents which, if managed and invested prudently, can deliver long-term socio-economic prosperity…

Afghanistan’s restrictions on girls’ secondary and higher education are the immediate barrier to women’s education. But even if these restrictions…

A video appears on Facebook showing a person accused of sorcery being tortured. Sharing it may alert police and help…

Australian aid Members of Australia’s Emergency Action Alliance (EAA) and their local partners have released an appeal for those affected…

Welfare support is meant to be central to the success of the Pacific Australia Labour Mobility (PALM) scheme, yet little…

Pacific people have long known how to look after their own. Across the region, extended families, churches and communities have…

In June 2025, health workers in Tafea Province, Vanuatu, reported a cluster of severe respiratory illness among infants. Laboratory testing…

This year’s oil crisis has sent the costs of energy skyrocketing for many countries, including diesel-dependent Pacific countries, some of…

The term Global Syndemic was first coined in a 2019 Lancet Commission report by Swinburn et al., which described “obesity,…