This seminar examines how institutional design can incentivise cooperation, competition, or conflict by analysing cases of civil service administration in Afghanistan and Papua New Guinea. Speaker: ...

This seminar presents a new research project examining the experiences of payday loan users in PNG, including why people borrow, how loans are accessed, the costs and repayment conditions involved, ...

After a disastrous first couple of decades following independence in 1968, Nauru turned its economic fortunes around in the ...

Gordon Peake on Australia's branded aid merchandise in the Pacific and whether new Commonwealth restrictions will curb the ...

In the last fortnight the Australian government has loudly celebrated the signing of two new security treaties in the Melanesian region. The first, the Nakamal Agreement, was signed with Vanuatu, with ...

The 2026–27 Budget tabled in Fiji’s Parliament last month projects total government expenditure of $4.9 billion against revenues of $3.8 billion, leaving a net deficit of approximately $1 billion (all ...

Joel Nilon is currently Senior Pacific Fellow at the Pacific Security College at the Australian National University. He previously served at the Pacific Islands Forum Secretariat for nine years as ...

This report sheds light on the nature of political will towards anti-corruption reform in PNG, through a rapid political economy analysis approach, with a view to informing and improving policy ...

Dr Claire E Brolan researches the intersection of global health and development policy, governance, equity and rights relating to implementation of the Sustainable Development Goal Agenda. She is a ...

Dirk Pfeiffer is the Chow Tak Fung Chair Professor of One Health at City University of Hong Kong, professor of veterinary epidemiology at the Royal Veterinary College in London, and a commissioner ...

Papua New Guinea’s efforts to design a workable system of customary land registration are often described as an ongoing challenge, yet the intellectual foundations underpinning today’s reform momentum ...