After a disastrous first couple of decades following independence in 1968, Nauru turned its economic fortunes around in the ...

Gordon Peake on Australia's branded aid merchandise in the Pacific and whether new Commonwealth restrictions will curb the ...

The 2026–27 Budget tabled in Fiji’s Parliament last month projects total government expenditure of $4.9 billion against revenues of $3.8 billion, leaving a net deficit of approximately $1 billion (all ...

Kamalini Lokuge, Medical Epidemiologist, National Centre for Epidemiology and Population Health, ANU The Devpolicy Blog is based at the Development Policy Centre, Crawford School of Public Policy, ...

The 2023 Australasian AID Conference was held at The Australian National University in Canberra, Australia on 5-7 December. The Devpolicy Blog is based at the Development Policy Centre, Crawford ...

Shaun Gessler is an anthropology PhD student at the ANU Department of Pacific Affairs. His thesis investigates the relationship between a Chinese-run nickel mining project in Papua New Guinea and the ...

Kath Taplin is a practising lawyer who has worked on aid and development initiatives in the Asia Pacific for the past decade. She was Femili PNG’s Senior Development Manager from early 2015 to ...

The Devpolicy Blog is based at the Development Policy Centre, Crawford School of Public Policy, College of Law, Governance and Policy, The Australian National University.

The Devpolicy Blog is based at the Development Policy Centre, Crawford School of Public Policy, College of Law, Governance and Policy, The Australian National University.

This report shares key findings from the first wave of the Pacific Labour Mobility Survey (PLMS). The PLMS is a new multi-country Pacific migration survey covering workers in three different schemes ...

Mahomed Patel is an Adjunct Associate Professor at the National Centre for Epidemiology and Population Health at the ANU. He has done consultancies for development agencies, including DFAT and WHO, to ...