The re-elected Labor Government‘s political capital should be used to improve the quality and measurement of Australia’s aid ...

The current OECD Development Assistance Committee peer review of Australia's aid effort takes place at a critical moment, ...

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 Asia and the Pacific, The Australian National University ...

The Pacific Family Matters blog series explores priorities for the re-elected Australian Labor government’s engagement on development issues in the Pacific.

Natasha Turia gives you tips on how to enter the Pacific Engagement Visa ballot and how to secure a permanent residency visa if successful in the ballot.

It's clear PNG is poorly governed, but less clear how governance might improve. In this post Terence Wood explores possible improvements.

2024 started terribly for Papua New Guinea as civil riots rocked the nation. What started as a protest by law enforcement officers (police, defence force and corrections staff) on 10 January over high ...

Who receives remittances, how much, and what are they used for? The Pacific Labour Mobility Survey has some answers, say Edwards and coauthors.

Sovit Subedi Sovit Subedi is a Program Officer at The Asia Foundation (Nepal). He manages the Multistakeholder Dialogue Program under the Subnational Governance Program.

Stephen Howes argues that the 3,000 new Pacific Engagement Visas need to be allocated strategically and, therefore, selectively across Pacific countries.

The new media development policy being proposed by the Papua New Guinea Communications Minister, Timothy Masiu, could lead to more government control over the country’s relatively free media. The new ...