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Tag - Government spending

PNG’s budgets and outcomes: a longer view

by Alyssa Leng
29 June 2023
Susa Mama health clinic, Port Moresby General Hospital, PNG (Ness Kerton-DFAT-Flickr)

PNG’s health spending increase: will it be well spent?

by Alyssa Leng and Stephen Howes
14 April 2022
Sri Lanka (Thilina Panduwawala)

Paradise squandered – what really happened to Sri Lanka’s economy

by Yolani Fernando
31 March 2022
Photograph of a mother and nurse weighing a baby at a health clinic in Port Moresby, PNG

PNG’s plan to balance the budget

by Stephen Howes and Kelly Samof
3 December 2021
Young people in Timor-Leste (Charles Scheiner)

Timor-Leste will soon be running on fumes

by Charles Scheiner
21 October 2021
Photograph of Economy Minister Aiyaz Sayed-Khaiyum who delivered the 2021-2022 Fiji National Budget

Fiji’s new budget: significant fiscal challenges

by Neelesh Gounder
22 July 2021

What guides Australian NGOs: need or the national interest?

by Terence Wood
28 April 2021
Timor-Leste is prioritizing universal cash transfers in its response to COVID0-19. (UN Photo:Martine Perret/Flickr CC BY-NC-ND 2.0)

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

by Stephen Howes and Sherman Surandiran
24 August 2020

Constituency fund management and electoral success in Solomon Islands

by Terence Wood
1 August 2019
Figure 2

How did PNG spend the resources boom?

by Stephen Howes and Rohan Fox
12 September 2016

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