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20 October 2025

Beyond aid part 3: rethinking the role of private finance from trillions to realism

by Nicola Nixon, Mandakini D. Surie and Ojashwi K C

6 May 2025

What about women? An overlooked solution to Pacific labour shortages

by Sarah Boxall

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14 December 2022

An overview of Australia’s aid program procurement

by Huiyuan Liu

BSP Commercial Bank, Port Moresby (Roan Paul)

5 December 2022

Undoing Sir Mekere’s financial sector reforms in PNG

by Andrew Anton Mako

IMF hosting a seminar on averting a COVID-19 debt trap in April 2021 (International Monetary Fund-Flickr)

22 April 2022

The spiralling debt crisis, and what to do about it

by Masood Ahmed and Niki Baroy

29 March 2022

How Vanuatu’s COVID-19 policies can catapult economic recovery through the private sector in 2022

by Elizabeth Pechan, Howard Aru and Tekon Timothy Tumukon

Workers at PNG Power Ltd, a state-owned enterprise (Asian Development Bank)

17 March 2022

The right person for the job: why Pacific state-owned enterprise director selection processes matter

by Laure Darcy

BSP in Port Moresby (Dek Joe Sum)

15 February 2022

Anti-money laundering regulations in the Pacific – a double-edged sword

by Dek Joe Sum

A photograph of Private security personnel in Port Moresby, PNG.

11 October 2021

Private security in PNG – a networked approach

by Grant Walton and Sinclair Dinnen

Farmer Sione Vaianginam with his children on their tractor in Nuku'alofa (ADB-Flickr)

5 October 2021

Repairing remittance rules

by Andrew Leigh

A woman at work in PNG (IFC)

29 September 2021

The role of the private sector in addressing family and sexual violence

by Evonne Kennedy and Shabnam Hameed

Photograph of two Kina Bank automatic teller machines in a Port Moresby shopping centre

15 September 2021

Kina’s Westpac offer finally rejected – what’s next?

by Dek Joe Sum

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