If Indonesia's leaders are serious about strengthening regional development, vertical fiscal transfers must be made automatic, says Ronny P Sasmita.

Not helping women plan pregnancies is a missed opportunity to reduce PNG's birth rate and related pressures on public ...

Despite repeated warnings, those with the power to act failed to prevent the loss of hundreds of thousands of lives, says ...

The Tropical Forests Forever Facility launched at COP30 represents a promising new financial model to protect our region's forests, says Peter Raynes.

With the increasing attention given to adaptation at COP30 in Belem, water is moving from the sidelines to centre stage. 90% of disasters in the last decade were water-related, and with increasing ...

This blog updates the Development Policy Centre’s 2022 overview of Australian aid program procurement administered by the Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade (DFAT). In 2022, Huiyuan Liu found ...

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 ...

Most Pacific island countries got off relatively lightly with last week’s Trump “reciprocal” tariff announcement. Ten were given tariffs of 10%, the minimum handed out. (Timor-Leste also got a 10% ...

In January this year, the managing director of Papua New Guinea’s Mineral Resources Authority declared that the proposal to develop what had once been touted as the world’s first deep-sea mine would ...

During the last week of March 2023, New Zealand government officials gathered with representatives of Pacific states to consult on a substantive review of New Zealand’s Recognised Seasonal Employer ...

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The Pacific Labour Mobility Survey (PLMS) covers households in three Pacific countries – Tonga, Kiribati and Vanuatu – and workers in Australia’s Seasonal Worker Program (SWP) and Pacific Labour ...