The 2024 data brings some good news for the sector - even with inflation accounted for, donations have begun to rise, says ...

A survey suggests supporters of Bougainville’s independence need to do more than stress local support, say Anna Kapil and ...

At the end of 2026, the International Monetary Fund (IMF) loan program with Papua New Guinea will end. PNG had turned to the IMF four times prior to this decade, all during the 1990s and early 2000s ...

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 ...

Further details recently released in relation to the Australia-Tuvalu Falepili Union treaty reveal just what a good deal Tuvalu has obtained. We already knew that the treaty would give 280 special ...

Australian aid investments managed by DFAT are rated on a scale of 1 to 6 in relation to a number of criteria. Scores of 4 or higher are required for the investment to be regarded as satisfactory.

Although the Trump administration is now attempting to walk back some of the most obviously murderous aspects of its aid freeze, its ramifications remain: the damage already done, the effects on work ...

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Prime Minister James Marape has announced that by the 2027 National Elections, Papua New Guinea will implement a biometric voting system supported by the Civil Registry Project. What has eluded ...

The results of the Development Policy Centre’s 2024 public opinion survey about aid are in. Our surveys are designed to track attitudes to aid spending over time. To do this as reliably as possible we ...

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 ...

During Kiribati’s recent election campaign, a letter was sent by the Kiribati Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Immigration to foreign diplomatic missions, stating that “due to ongoing national ...