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25 February 2021

Fiji and PNG: no room to move on COVID-19

by Stephen Howes and Sherman Surandiran

10 February 2021

Australian budget support to PNG

by Stephen Howes

PNG’s debt as a share of GDP and interest costs as a share of revenue

27 November 2020

PNG budget: pluses and minuses

by Maholopa Laveil and Dek Joe Sum

Australia leaves Fiji to flounder

23 September 2020

Australia leaves Fiji to flounder

by Stephen Howes

28 August 2020

Constraints on the Pacific response to COVID-19

by Stephen Howes and Sherman Surandiran

Timor-Leste is prioritizing universal cash transfers in its response to COVID0-19. (UN Photo:Martine Perret/Flickr CC BY-NC-ND 2.0)

24 August 2020

What are Pacific governments spending on in response to COVID-19?

by Stephen Howes and Sherman Surandiran

Additional expenditure in response to COVID-19 (% of GDP)

20 August 2020

COVID-19 spending across the Pacific: the self-funded, the aid-financed, and the constrained

by Stephen Howes and Sherman Surandiran

Ratio of defence-to-aid spending

28 July 2020

Defence and aid: unprecedented divergence

by Stephen Howes

Flyers detailing the shared benefits of tax were included in letters sent to non-compliant taxpayers (PNG Internal Revenue Commission)

2 July 2020

Can sharing the joy of tax increase government revenue in PNG?

by Luke McKenzie, Chris Hoy and Mathias Sinning

Views on Australian aid spending May/June 2020

2 July 2020

COVID-19 has not caused a fall in Australians’ support for aid

by Terence Wood, Ryan Edwards and Chris Hoy

20 September 2019

Australia’s replenishment rub

by Stephen Howes

26 August 2019

PNG’s China and Australia loan requests

by Stephen Howes

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