News articles about Tuvalu consistently depict the country from the perspective of climate loss. For example, media representations of Tuvalu’s Falepili Union Treaty with Australia have transformed a ...

What Carney's Davos speech means for middle powers like Australia navigating aid cuts, US disruption and multilateral reform.

FSM and RMI face dramatic depopulation via US migration. Can rising incomes stabilise their populations, as in Niue and Cook Islands?

The young country faces its worst crisis since 2018 as conflict, climate disasters and collapsing health services converge, says Mamman Mustapha.

In January this year, the managing director of Papua New Guinea’s Mineral Resources Authority declared that the proposal to develop what had once been touted as the world’s first deep-sea mine would ...

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 ...

This report shares key findings from the first wave of the Pacific Labour Mobility Survey (PLMS). The PLMS is a new multi-country Pacific migration survey covering workers in three different schemes ...

The Devpolicy Blog is based at the Development Policy Centre, Crawford School of Public Policy, College of Law, Governance and Policy, The Australian National University.

Remittances are normally seen as the main benefit of migration that accrues to the sending country, but what about the impact on population? Our previous blog looked at the growth of remittances to ...

Foreign aid was increased by 4% over what had been projected last year to bring the 2024-25 aid budget to $4.961 billion, virtually unchanged from the (inflation-adjusted) 2023-24 level of $4.900 ...

District Services Improvement Program (DSIP) funds in Papua New Guinea (PNG) are not unique. Similar systems can be found in neighbouring Solomon Islands and in some other developing countries where ...