Devpolicy Blog from the Development Policy Centre

The US Pacific Island Country Summit at the White House, 28-29 September 2022

3 November 2022

Washington’s charm offensive and the US-Pacific Island Country Summit

by Terence Wesley-Smith and Gerard Finin

Woman using a mobile phone in Honiara, Solomon Islands (Asian Development Bank-Flickr)

2 November 2022

The Pacific digital transformation: is everyone a winner?

by Sarah Boxall

CARE's local team in Vanuatu distributing vital supplies to communities affected by Tropical Cyclone Harold in 2020 (Valerie Fernandez-CARE)

1 November 2022

Beyond the rhetoric – why INGOs need to change

by Peter Walton

Robert Igara speaking at the 2022 PNG Update (Alyssa Leng)

28 October 2022

Revisiting the Morauta central banking reforms: part two

by Robert Igara

28 October 2022

October 2022 aid news

by Development Policy Centre

Robert Igara delivering his keynote speech at PNG Update 2022 (Development Policy Centre-ANU)

27 October 2022

Revisiting the Morauta central banking reforms: part one

by Robert Igara

Treasurer of Australia, Hon Dr Jim Chalmers

26 October 2022

Labor reduces but does not eliminate Coalition aid cuts

by Cameron Hill, Stephen Howes and Huiyuan Liu

Man cooking food in Port Moresby, PNG (Paul Maina)

25 October 2022

Latest Port Moresby ban doomed to failure

by Busa Jeremiah Wenogo

Samoan seasonal workers heading to Australia in 2021 (Pacific Australia Labour Mobility scheme-Facebook)

24 October 2022

Recruitment pathways and motivations in Samoa’s new labour trade

by Angela Anya Fatupaito, Leva’a Samoa James Utuva, Sa’u Emo Tauave, Alofipo Siligamanaia Alofipo, Malama Meleisea, Penelope Schoeffel, Tiffany Arthur and Kalissa Alexeyeff

Humanitarian assistance in Kunduz, Afghanistan

21 October 2022

Should Western donors provide aid to Taliban-controlled Afghanistan?

by Maria Siegmund

APTC training in Vanuatu (Rob Maccoll-DFAT-Flickr)

20 October 2022

Brain drain 3: specific problems and solutions

by Richard Curtain

19 October 2022

The Pacific: emerging from COVID, slowly

by Stephen Howes and Huiyuan Liu

PNG missing out on the Pacific remittances boom

Kiribati’s initial PEV progress: quick wins amid systemic hurdles

People, belonging and Pacific futures

Palm oil, poverty and the price of progress