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Poor road maintenance contributes to food insecurity. Fix the roads and rural Papua New Guineans can sell their agricultural produce. DAL should have much greater input into funding for key agricultural road infrastructure.

Violence against women in politics is common in Africa and Cameroon in particular. We female politician should form a coalition to fight this malpractice irrespective of region of the world. I was the General Secretary of the main opposition political party in Cameroon for 15 years and presently the General secretary of the women's Academy for Africa. i have trained over 100 women in Leadership, conflict resolution and raising funds for campaigns. Election I have also monitored elections for the Commonwealth Monitoring Team and the National Democratic Institute respectively. I am available to work with various women's group to fight against violence on women.

Totally agree. Good article, thanks. Unions NSW and the Migrant Resource Centre in Victoria released a survey of 1,300 seasonal workers this week, which reports widespread underpayment of pickers on piece rates. The average hourly rate across 937 respondents was $17.33, well below the award, with 15% saying that they earned less than $7 per hour. I cannot see how this new scheme will contribute towards addressing worker exploitation (that you reported on in 2016).

Hi Terence, Thanks for this. Just wondering if performance of SPC/SPREP/Forum Sec and other big regional organisations have an impact on aid volatility in the Pacific as well. After-all they take a huge chunk of aid in the Pacific?

One way to clarify this debate is to examine rates of child stunting in different parts of PNG.

Devpolicy.org.is providing a more detailed analysis of Fiji current crises.

Thank you, Oliver.

Absolutely agree with this critique, thank you. As one with a heavy involvement in the SWP and PLS, I cannot see anything but problems arising from this development. I wonder what the AEs think?

I am currently employed as a Legal Officer in a Govt department in PNG. Research for a current matter around the use of DSIP funding has brought me to this article. Imagine how ecstatic I was when I realized that this informative piece had been drafted by my former high school Business Studies teacher, Mr. Fredrick Guande! I had the pleasure of learning from Mr Guande who has always demonstrated enthusiasm and a passion to see his students develop. He was a source of inspiration for me to question the way our society is managed, as opposed to merely conforming, through seeking different perspectives from similar forums such as Project Syndicate. As a former pupil, I am very pleased to see that you have extended your reach in your continued efforts to educate fellow Papua New Guineas. Thank you for your service, Sir.

The govt of the day must look into such issues and start solving them to contribute to the HDI for this nation, since GDP per Capita is not reflected in such aspects of a nation's wealth, health and well-being. Thank you once again to the authors for the invaluable information.

Gazelle District in ENB is so large that development issues and infrastructure repairs takes long time. Can the district be split with some LLGs to be moved to Rabaul and Kokopo Open? Can the electoral boundaries be reviewed and moved?

Hi Joseph, could you clarify on the new normal life, especially for workers traveling on buses and other vehicles to work. The Covid control measures from the office of controller that would be great.. Thank you.