Using high-frequency financial diaries from Fijian temporary migrant workers in Australia and their families back home, we estimate the within-individual income elasticity of remittances at ...

How four decades of policy work shaped PNG's 2026 Customary Land Tenure Act and its customary land registration framework.

In Fiji, the Social Pension Scheme pension is having a huge impact on reducing poverty, with analysis suggesting poverty among older persons would be around 40% higher without the scheme. The pension ...

Source: UNHCR, Middle East Situation. PNG’s government has approved the $170 million grant investment by the Australian Financing Facility for the Pacific (AIFFP) for the new “Pukpuk Treaty” submarine ...

At investor forums and industry conferences, Papua New Guinea’s mining industry is routinely presented as a pillar of national development. Events like the upcoming PNG Investment Week, PNG Expo and ...

In my first post, I characterised the Pacific Banking Guarantee Act 2025 as providing a subsidy to the banks covered by it — so far only the ANZ. Since the details of the guarantee being provided are ...

New Ireland's 2026 by-election disrupts stable political traditions with a contested governorship and a strong independent challenge.

Is it possible to predict election outcomes in Papua New Guinea? Testing the Hegarty Rule This presentation evaluates a model using candidate numbers to predict election outcomes, testing its accuracy ...

For Australia, Myanmar has become a foreign policy impasse — marked by condemnation, humanitarian commitment and a reliance ...

This seminar will highlight the main findings of the report on the 2022 PNG National General Election and engage the audience in a conversation about electoral integrity and reform. As in previous ...

Stephen Howes rebuts Naren Prasad's argument that migration and remittance dependence harm Pacific island economies.