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9 August 2024

After the downfall of Bangladesh’s Iron Lady: it’s time for dialogue

by Subrata Banarjee

Fiji Employment Minister Agni Deo Singh visiting seasonal workers in New Zealand in May 2023 (Fiji Government-Facebook)

8 August 2023

Pacific labour mobility over the last year: continued growth

by Charlotte Bedford

Betelnut vendor, Papua New Guinea

11 April 2023

Are workers in the informal sector leaving formal sector workers behind in PNG?

by Kelly Samof

Farmer in a field of potato plants in Papua New Guinea

1 February 2023

Bikpela wok na liklik mani: smallholders’ decisions on cash crops in PNG

by Michael Bourke

19 January 2023

Changes in Papua New Guinea’s fresh food marketplaces

by Timothy Sharp, Mark Busse and Michael Bourke

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

25 October 2022

Latest Port Moresby ban doomed to failure

by Busa Jeremiah Wenogo

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

20 October 2022

Brain drain 3: specific problems and solutions

by Richard Curtain

Timorese workers in Australia in 2019 (Seasonal Worker Programme of Timor-Leste-Facebook)

14 October 2022

Brain drain 2: general solutions

by Richard Curtain

Samoan PM visiting RSE workers in New Zealand in June 2022 (New Zealand Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Trade-Facebook)

13 October 2022

Brain drain 1: a growing concern

by Richard Curtain

A local market near Goroka (P. Mathur-Bioversity International-Flickr)

28 March 2022

The informal economy in development, or a history of thought in PNG

by Ronald J. May

Port Moresby International Airport (Jialiang Gao (peace-on-earth.org)-Wikimedia Commons

24 February 2022

What happened to PNG’s air travel boom?

by Huiyuan Liu and Stephen Howes

Photography of roadside sign in a field that reads 'Looking for seasonal work?'

21 February 2022

New Zealand’s summer harvest woes

by Charlotte Bedford

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