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Fiji Parliament House, Suva (Flickr/Jared Wiltshire CC BY 2.0)

2 March 2017

A Parliamentary Budget Office in Fiji: a resource for accountability and development

by Usman W. Chohan

Strengthening PFM in Pacific island countries - report cover (World Bank/DFAT/MFAT/ODI)

23 January 2017

Lessons from public financial management reforms in the Pacific

by Nematullah Bizhan

OBI scores map, 2008 (Open Budget Survey Data Explorer)

23 November 2016

Does aid dependency hinder budget transparency?

by Nematullah Bizhan

crunch! - (image: Flickr, greenzowie CC BY-NC-ND 2.0)

20 September 2016

PNG’s discretionary expenditure crunch

by Stephen Howes and Rohan Fox

12 September 2016

How did PNG spend the resources boom?

by Stephen Howes and Rohan Fox

Figure 3: Commodity index and mining & petroleum taxes, 2006 to 2016

22 August 2016

PNG real revenue back to 2006 levels

by Rohan Fox and Stephen Howes

Sugar cane workers in Fiji (Flickr/ADB, CC BY-NC-ND 2.0

26 July 2016

Fiji’s economic resurgence and its 2016-17 budget

by Matthew Dornan

Australian Treasury (Wikimedia Commons, CC BY-SA 3.0)

6 June 2016

A closer look at the budget environment for Australian aid

by Garth Luke

John Key, Murray McCully and Jim McClay at the UN (Flickr/NZ National Party CC BY-NC-ND 2.0)

2 June 2016

The astounding increase in New Zealand aid, and other woes

by Terence Wood and Jo Spratt

Share of total government expenditure

5 May 2016

The budget repair that wasn’t: implications for the aid budget

by Anthony Swan

4 May 2016

The way we were: mean and meaner still

by Paul Flanagan

4 May 2016

Scaled down. The last of the aid cuts?

by Stephen Howes

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