Devpolicy's monthly update of news and analysis on aid and international development, with a focus on Australian aid.

Pacific leaders facing a geostrategic tug-of-war should choose their own paths, aligned with their laws and cultures, says Celsus Talifilu.

The measure of national progress is not only political sovereignty but the health of communities, say Beeson, Charles and Babona.

Locally led development should above all focus on the truly local sites where disadvantage and local political leadership occur, says Mark Moran.

In August, we published a progress report on how the successful Pacific Engagement Visa (PEV) 2024 ballot applicants had fared, but at that time we only had data up to April. Now we have more recent ...

This is the first article in the four-part series Beyond aid: new directions in development finance on key debates at the Fourth International Conference on Financing for Development (FfD4), which was ...

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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. Posts on the Devpolicy Blog ...

The Seasonal Worker Program (SWP), now under the Pacific Australia Labour Mobility (PALM) scheme as its “short-term” stream, was launched in 2012 with two objectives: “to contribute to economic ...

With the golden jubilee celebrations having just passed, Papua New Guinea is equal parts festive and reflective. The national broadcasters have played their part in fostering the latter: screening ...

A minimum wage of 5 kina per hour would reverse declining food purchasing power due to price inflation since 2021, say Kristi Mahrt and Emily Schmidt.

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 ...