OECD DAC aid fell 28% in real terms from 2023 to 2025. New forecasts to 2028 suggest the cuts have much further to run.

Pacific theology reframes deep-sea mining as a moral reckoning, not just a technical task — with implications for DSM ...

How the Pacific fuel price shock is hitting children first through missed school, thinner meals and delayed health visits.

Development Policy Centre is pleased to invite you to 2026 aid budget breakfast where we examine the Albanese government’s fifth aid budget at 9am on Wednesday 13 May. The breakfast will assess ...

PNG is missing out on the Pacific remittances flows driven by PALM and RSE labour mobility schemes. What's holding it back?

Kalafi Moala on media freedom in the Pacific after an armed threat against a Tongan journalist reporting on drug trafficking.

Stephen Howes launches the third phase of the ANU-UPNG partnership, reflecting on the last decade and four aid effectiveness ...

Solomon Islands’ new Prime Minister, Matthew Cooper Wale, has promised the country that “change is coming”. He was elected prime minister on 15 May 2026 following a vote of no confidence in his ...

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In February, Papua New Guinea launched a national gun amnesty and buyback scheme. An estimated 100,000 illegal firearms are circulating across the country. Tribal violence has killed hundreds in Enga ...

Using high-frequency financial diaries from Fijian temporary migrant workers in Australia and their families back home, we estimate the within-individual income elasticity of remittances at ...

Indonesia’s flash floods in Sumatra are not merely natural disasters; they are also symptomatic of fiscal failure. While rescue teams battled torrents of mud, a quieter tragedy unfolded in the budget ...