The relationship between temporary labour migration and economic development is a subject of longstanding academic debate and policy consideration. Migrant workers’ remittances, which this year overtook foreign direct investment (FDI) to become the largest inflow of capital into emerging economies...
The best thing to come out of the Pacific Step-up so far has been the promotion of labour mobility. This is the part of the Step-up that most directly addresses the Pacific’s most pressing need: employment opportunities. But the gains so far have been limited. The Seasonal Worker Programme (SWP)...
Good luck trying to find any booze in the Autonomous Region of Bougainville these referendum days. In the administrative capital, Buka, the beer shops are closed, the hotel’s fridges are shut (mostly), and the home-brew stills are silent (mostly). Buka’s premier nightclub, Club Oasis, where the...
In the late 1960s, armed with a high school diploma, a young man named Jose Alexendre Gusmao hit the streets of Dili in search of a job. The only steady positions were with the Portuguese colonial administration and he found, to his dismay, that the indigenous and unconnected were not welcome...
As a young boy growing up in Papua New Guinea (PNG), every Saturday Dad would drive up a windy road...
In their systematic analysis of Papua New Guinea (PNG) election data looking at whether women...
This November in Geneva, the United Nations examined Fiji’s human rights record for the third time...
In 2016, in Solomon Islands, the Family Protection Act (FPA) came into force. It set out new...
The Fiji Women’s Fund (the Fund) has learnt three key lessons in supporting women’s economic...
In June 2014, a breathless headline on the MacauHub website announced a momentous event in the long...
