Political economy analysis should encompass the aid allocation and distribution process, not just partner-country dynamics, ...

Pacific journalists see themselves not just as neutral observers and commentators but as active cultural participants, say ...

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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.

As in 2022, this year’s federal election is shaping up as one in which questions of foreign policy are playing a major role. It was a surprise China–Solomon Islands security pact that hit the ...

Once upon a time governance was not a thing in development. It was only about thirty years ago that the ideas of a few academic scribblers began to filter into the development discourse and challenge ...

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 ...

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.

Jonathan Zureo is a Lecturer at the Divine Word University, Papua New Guinea. He teaches data communications and cyber security in the Information Systems Department and the Mathematics and Computing ...

George Shafi is currently studying a Master of International Development and Planning at the University of Otago, including a completing a dissertation which explores the development landscape in ...

High levels of tax evasion are considered one of the main reasons Indonesia only collects just over 10% of Gross Domestic Product (GDP) in taxes, around half of the regional average. However, to date, ...

The spike in migration out of Fiji since the end of COVID has been widely commented on. It is certainly real. As the graph below shows, prior to 2018 there were on average about 9,000 more departures ...