The most comprehensive regional aid dataset of its kind, tracking $60 billion in aid and development finance across 50,000 ...

A growing share of regional support is shifting from grants to loans, led by Australia’s expanding infrastructure pipeline and the major multilateral banks. China, once the region’s largest lender, ...

Riley Duke is a Research Fellow at the Lowy Institute and lead author of the Institute's Pacific Aid Map. Roland Rajah Roland ...

The Pacific is acutely exposed to the economic fallout of the Iran war, particularly its disruptions to global supply chains. Costs for oil imports, for example, are much higher for the Pacific than ...

Official development finance to the Pacific increased in 2024, ending three years of decline. The rise came predominantly from concessional loans, which offset falling year-on-year grants. Total ...

“The Batan Islands belong to Beijing” – or so a group of Chinese maritime scholars are reported to (Opens in new window) have claimed at an academic symposium in Guangzhou on June 30. This is a ...

When Narendra Modi arrives in Australia this week, much of the focus will rightly be on how far the India–Australia relationship has travelled. This will be his third visit (Opens in new window) as ...

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As maritime coercion in the South China Sea becomes ever more routine, Southeast Asian governments have focused on managing tensions while continuing to underutilise one of the region’s most potent ...

Democratic erosion is the incremental and multifaceted deterioration in the freedoms, guarantees, and processes vital to the functioning of democracy. Various studies have tried to pinpoint one cause ...

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