While scholarship on corruption in the Pacific is increasing, a discussion at the 2025 Pacific Update found critical research gaps remain.

Inequality of voting opportunity in the Highlands is a problem for all Papua New Guineans, says Thiago Cintra Oppermann.

Not helping women plan pregnancies is a missed opportunity to reduce PNG's birth rate and related pressures on public ...

If Indonesia's leaders are serious about strengthening regional development, vertical fiscal transfers must be made automatic, says Ronny P Sasmita.

The Tropical Forests Forever Facility launched at COP30 represents a promising new financial model to protect our region's forests, says Peter Raynes.

As the dust settles on the United Nations COP30 climate talks in Brazil, a lot of questions remain. Ten years on from the Paris Agreement, are the UN talks still fit for purpose? How can countries ...

When economists want to analyse economic performance, they typically examine Gross Domestic Product (GDP) growth. But a better measure of economic performance is Gross National Disposable Income (GNDI ...

This blog updates the Development Policy Centre’s 2022 overview of Australian aid program procurement administered by the Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade (DFAT). In 2022, Huiyuan Liu found ...

With the increasing attention given to adaptation at COP30 in Belem, water is moving from the sidelines to centre stage. 90% of disasters in the last decade were water-related, and with increasing ...

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 ...

Australian Foreign Minister Penny Wong was putting it mildly when she noted in her Solomon Islands press conference in June that “there’s been a positive response” to the new Labor government’s ...