PACER Plus – a regional trade agreement between Australia, New Zealand and Pacific island countries – will do little to stimulate economic activity in the Pacific. However, Pacific negotiators have had some success lobbying Australia and New Zealand on labour mobility, and have shaped a relative...
PACER Plus, a trade and development agreement including Australia and New Zealand and a majority of Pacific Forum Island Countries (FICs), presents important opportunities for business and government to drive economic recovery and regional integration. PACER (Pacific Closer Economic Relations) Plus...
On 13 December 2020 the controversial regional free trade agreement – the Pacific Agreement on Closer Economic Relations Plus (PACER Plus) – will come into force, ending a drawn-out process, with millions of dollars spent in negotiations that started before 2010. PACER Plus is an agreement that has...
New Zealand’s summer harvest period is fast approaching and with it the need for seasonal labour. With the international border remaining closed, preventing the usual influx of migrant workers, there is ongoing talk of labour shortages across a range of crops including vegetables, berries...
The Geneva Conference on Afghanistan, on 23 and 24 November, presents an important opportunity for...
Aid: wealthier countries giving money to less fortunate ones for the sake of improving...
The Global Gag Rule (GGR), also called the Mexico City Policy, is a US government policy first...
In these strange and disorienting times, The Watermill is profoundly contemporary. This quartet of...
While many in Australia have faced significant cost due to the global pandemic, most of us have...
This year we are going to trial something new on the Devpolicy Blog. For most final year PhD...
