This is my second post on Fred Fisk, best known for the idea of “subsistence affluence” in Papua New Guinea. After about 1970, Fisk’s energies were directed to smaller Pacific states, characterised by ...

Australia’s foreign aid (Official Development Assistance or ODA) for 2025-26 is budgeted at $5.097 billion, a 2.7% increase ...

The 2025-26 federal budget will see Australian Official Development Assistance (ODA) remain largely steady in real terms at an estimated $5.097 billion in the coming financial year, or 0.18% of Gross ...

On 25 March 2025, the Papua New Guinea government shut down Facebook for a day without notice, leaving the roughly 1.4 to 1.6 million users in the country offline, according to Facebook analytics.

For more than 1,200 days, Afghan girls have been banned from attending school beyond Year 6. While boys started the new school year at secondary schools across Afghanistan on 22 March, there are still ...

The Devpolicy Blog is based at the Development Policy Centre, Crawford School of Public Policy, College of Asia and the Pacific, The Australian National University.

The need for an affordable, clean, safe and efficient public transport system in Port Moresby is both pressing and widely recognised among residents. While numerous studies and reports have examined ...

The Devpolicy Blog is based at the Development Policy Centre, Crawford School of Public Policy, College of Asia and the Pacific, The Australian National University.