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Anthony Swan

Has the budget emergency gone away? Implications for future funding of Australian aid

May 19, 2017
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Central Province high school students, May 2016 (image: Grant Walton)

The beginning of the end of “free education” in PNG?

January 12, 2017
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by Anthony Swan, Grant Walton
A teacher instructing secondary school students in Kimbe, West New Britain (Flickr/Asian Development Bank CC BY-NC-ND 2.0)

Improving quality education in a world obsessed with student numbers: evidence from PNG

December 6, 2016
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by Anthony Swan, Grant Walton
Kim Kardashian (Wikipedia / © Glenn Francis, www.PacificProDigital.com)

PNG through the lens of Australian newsprint media

September 30, 2016
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A new RCT for PNG in the law and justice sector

September 21, 2016
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Number of development impact evaluations published every year (source: 3ie)

Evaluating impact evaluation in PNG and the Pacific

September 9, 2016
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Australia sounds the alarm on PNG’s proposed rice policy

August 31, 2016
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Stack of newspapers (Flickr/Jeff Eaton CC BY-SA 2.0)

Uncovering hidden content in Australian newsprint articles on PNG

August 23, 2016
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Bridging data gaps for policymaking: crowdsourcing and big data for development

July 8, 2016
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Share of total government expenditure

The budget repair that wasn’t: implications for the aid budget

May 5, 2016
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Anthony Swan

Anthony Swan is a Research Fellow at the Development Policy Centre and lecturer in the Master of International and Development Economics program. He managed the PEPE PNG project at the National Research Institute of PNG, and was also a lecturer at the University of Papua New Guinea. Now at the ANU, he continues his work at the PEPE project. He has a PhD in economics from the ANU and has a background in economic policy formulation and consulting.

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