In this post, I analyse four trade performance indicators for PNG over the last two decades: growth...
Category - Pacific growth and regional integration
Is there finally hope for Timor Leste’s rural people?
Timor Leste’s Prime Minister, Xanana Gusmao, had originally planned to step down as Prime Minister...
Capacity development in economic policy agencies
The Australian Treasury has been heavily involved, and accumulated considerable experience, in the...
Pacific countries demonstrate the fundamental flaw in the SOE...
The recent launch of the Asian Development Bank’s (ADB) latest state-owned enterprise (SOE)...
Waiting for the seasonal worker game changer
The Coalition went into the last election with only two Pacific promises in its foreign policy. One...
Investing in people and building a business in Vanuatu
I run a business in Vanuatu called Vila Refrigeration. We are an air conditioning and refrigeration...
What should we expect from Pacific regionalism?
Over the next few days the presidents, prime ministers and premiers of small Pacific island...
ICT, telecommunications and development in Vanuatu: an interview...
Tess Newton Cain recently met Fred Samuel Tarisongtamate, the Government Chief Information Officer...
In search of a Pacific model of growth
Yongzheng Yang is the Resident Representative for Pacific Island Countries at the International...
World Bank calls on Australia to introduce permanent migration...
In a just-released report, Well-being from Work in the Pacific Island Countries, the World Bank has...