Forgotten by the media and spurned by political will, Sudan and its people have slipped down the world's list of priorities, ...

UPNG students are very pessimistic about their country's future according to survey results reported by Kelly Samof and ...

Introducing free agency would have some symbolic value. But it is not feasible for short-term PALM workers. It would reduce demand for long-term PALM workers, have low take-up, do little to reduce ...

The Indonesian government enacted Act 6 of 2014 to decentralise village governance, aiming to improve service delivery at the local level. Under President Jokowi’s leadership, village governments ...

The first blog in this two-part series made two main points: that the total number of Pacific Australia Labour Mobility (PALM) scheme workers on farms is falling, and that the number of PALM workers ...

Data just released from the Australian Department of Employment and Workplace Relations shows a sharp decline in Pacific workers engaged in short-term (seasonal) agricultural work, with the total ...

More than 80% of people in PNG live in rural areas and more than 60% of them are multidimensionally poor. It is therefore reasonable for Andrew Anton Mako to ask why a greater share of budget spending ...

At the 2024 United Nations General Assembly, PNG’s Prime Minister James Marape said he wanted to make PNG a high-income economy by 2045. But this will not be easy. To improve living standards for its ...

Inflation, low wage growth and little job creation have made life very tough in Papua New Guinea for the ordinary person. The PNG government has made some effort to respond to cost-of-living pressures ...

The primary impetus for much of the contemporary focus on the relationship between Australia’s aid and its wider geopolitical goals has been the perceived increase in the use of various forms of ...

Kiribati faces one of the highest child mortality rates in the region, with under-5 mortality rates (U5MR) remaining stubbornly high for more than a decade. According to UNICEF’s 2016 State of the ...