Australian aid At the 30th Australia-PNG Ministerial Forum, the two governments noted PNG’s budget repair efforts and committed to examine other ways, beyond budget support loans, to assist PNG’s fiscal reforms. Ministers highlighted the importance of PNG’s meeting its International Monetary...
The 2024 Annual Report of the United Nations Secretary-General on Children and Armed Conflict reveals a 21% increase in grave violations against children globally in 2023. The UN verified 32,990 grave violations, with 30,705 occurring in 2023 and 2,285 from previous years but verified in 2023...
A recent chart from a G20 independent expert panel report on multilateral reform, reproduced by the well-known commentator Adam Tooze, caught our eye. Of all the countries that qualify for concessional support from the World Bank (basically the 70 or so poorest), PNG was shown to have had the...
When Prime Minister Rishi Sunak stood in the pouring rain outside No. 10 Downing Street on 22 May, he announced an election date of 4 July – a mere six weeks away – prompting shock and speculation from the British press and commentators. He did so with the 1993 hit song “Things can only get better”...
I began my assignment with Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) in Sudan’s capital, Khartoum, in...
I was struck on budget night last month by the contrast between, on the one hand, the Foreign...
Republican candidate Donald Trump is the favourite to win the US presidential election on 5...
Anka Lee has recently been appointed US Deputy Assistant Secretary of Defense for East Asia. On a...
Western donors have struggled to respond effectively to Myanmar’s burgeoning civil war, which has...
In the lead-up to the New Zealand government budget on 30 May, there was genuine uncertainty about...
