Businesses, individuals and governments have faced difficulties obtaining foreign exchange (FX) in PNG over the last decade.

The 2022 redistricting effort could undermine basic government functions and Parliament needs to fix the problem urgently, ...

Among the more than two dozen executive orders issued by President Donald Trump during his first day in office was an order to pause US development assistance for 90 days to undertake an “assessment ...

As communities across Vanuatu welcomed a new year and contemplated multiple aspiring political candidates ahead of the 16 January snap election, a popular reggae song was making the rounds.

The noble push to achieve “Freedom from Hunger” gained momentum after World War II with the formation of the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations, which “strives to eradicate hunger ...

Most people in Papua New Guinea know where Mendi is. The city, nested amongst the mountains of the Southern Highlands, has a permanent population of around 30,000 which ebbs and flows as people visit ...

Sir Charles Watson Lepani KBE, who passed away on 10 January, was the last surviving member of Papua New Guinea’s famous “Gang of Four”, four young bureaucrats who, at the time of independence, seemed ...

Fiame Naomi Mata’afa, Samoa’s first female Prime Minister, emerged from Parliament on 21 January 2025 with her leadership intact, despite deep divisions within the ruling Fa’atuatua i le Atua Samoa ua ...

The Devpolicy Blog is based at the Development Policy Centre, Crawford School of Public Policy, College of Asia and the Pacific, The Australian National University. Posts on the Devpolicy Blog are ...

The Australasian AID Conference was held on 3-5 December 2024 in Canberra. Conference presentations are now available on the Devpolicy ANU website. View keynote addresses and selected conference ...