Palm oil is in around half the products on your supermarket shelf. It is also one of the world’s most…

The dust may now have settled at Two-Mile Hill, but twelve hundred former residents of Port Moresby’s Rabiagini settlement remain…

The decision to allocate another $550 million in Official Development Assistance (ODA) grants to the Australian Infrastructure Financing Facility for…

It’s becoming routine now. Papua New Guinea holds an election. There are irregularities, allegations, omissions, bad decisions and tragedies. The…

The subject of this article, Paul Collier, born in 1949, is a British development economist and Professor of Economics and…

Indonesia’s flash floods in Sumatra are not merely natural disasters; they are also symptomatic of fiscal failure. While rescue teams…

As the “Gaza Playbook” seemingly extends to Lebanon, including attacks on critical civilian infrastructure, humanitarian personnel and journalists, we present…

This is an edited version of the opening address of the 2026 State of the Pacific conference hosted by the…

Overview: A new regional report warns the Pacific’s financial lifelines to the global economy are shrinking, raising risks for trade,…

Overview: Rising competition between the United States and China over critical minerals is driving a controversial plan to mine vast…