The Pacific Labour Scheme (PLS) is designed to help meet domestic labour shortages in rural and...
Category - Pacific and PNG
Three issues that will shape PNG politics from 2020 to 2022
After the change of government in May 2019, members of parliament in Papua New Guinea kept changing...
Literacy in the Pacific: in danger of being sidelined?
The Pacific is a crowded policy space – inevitable given the wide range of challenges facing...
Results are in: the state of literacy and numeracy in the Pacific
A recent study has found that the literacy and numeracy skills of primary school students across...
The Pacific: the silent ‘P’ in Asia-Pacific?
Have you ever wondered what the term Asia-Pacific denotes? A vast stretch of geographical land...
Remittances: moving people move money
For many centuries humans have been travelling the globe and with these travels has come the need...
PNG’s tertiary loan programs: present and past
The government of Papua New Guinea (PNG) through National Executive Council (NEC) decision...
Has trade protection assisted the manufacturing sector in PNG?
2019 was meant to mark the end of the PNG government’s 20-year Tariff Reduction Program (TRP)...
New Zealand’s “climate refugee” visas: lessons for the rest of...
In October 2017, New Zealand’s (then) new minister for climate change, James Shaw, announced that...
Internet prices in Papua New Guinea
When you clicked on this blog post to open it, did you think about how much money it would cost you...