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James Marape in Enga Province, January 2023 (Department of Prime Minister & NEC-Facebook)

7 February 2023

Doubling of PNG MP funds a bad move

by Andrew Anton Mako and Stephen Howes

Kolombi station, once a bustling government outpost (Newman Peye)

17 January 2023

PNG’s rural decay: a personal perspective (Part 3)

by Andrew Anton Mako

Campaign supporters during the Papua New Guinea 2022 elections

23 November 2022

Why were so many MPs re-elected in Papua New Guinea’s 2022 elections?

by Terence Wood

18 March 2022

DP99 Do DSIP funds help PNG MPs win?

by Lydia Papandrea

Map showing PNG open electorates (Development Policy Centre-ANU)

21 December 2021

Hasten slowly: PNG’s redistricting challenge

by Maholopa Laveil

Part of a mural at PNG Parliament House (Marc Tarlock-Flickr)

6 September 2021

Does MP funding work (politically) in PNG?

by Maholopa Laveil and Michael Kabuni

Fetching water from a stream in PNG

8 July 2021

PNG’s MP funding: volatile and unaccountable

by Maholopa Laveil

Guidelines exist for implementing service improvement programs in PNG, but more is needed. (Kevin Harber/Flickr)

22 September 2020

Better monitoring needed to transform slush funds into development funds in PNG

by Fredrick Guande

PNG Budget database - Revenue and expenditure per capita

27 March 2017

Budgetary data in PNG: taking the long view

by Rohan Fox and Stephen Howes

Angau Hospital budget

10 November 2016

Angau Hospital, and PNG’s 2017 budget

by Stephen Howes

12 September 2016

How did PNG spend the resources boom?

by Stephen Howes and Rohan Fox

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