Despite political overtures, the rural communities in the province of Solomon Islands see little change, says Anouk Ride.

News articles about Tuvalu consistently depict the country from the perspective of climate loss. For example, media representations of Tuvalu’s Falepili Union Treaty with Australia have transformed a ...

What Carney's Davos speech means for middle powers like Australia navigating aid cuts, US disruption and multilateral reform.

The young country faces its worst crisis since 2018 as conflict, climate disasters and collapsing health services converge, says Mamman Mustapha.

FSM and RMI face dramatic depopulation via US migration. Can rising incomes stabilise their populations, as in Niue and Cook Islands?

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

In January this year, the managing director of Papua New Guinea’s Mineral Resources Authority declared that the proposal to develop what had once been touted as the world’s first deep-sea mine would ...

Although the Trump administration is now attempting to walk back some of the most obviously murderous aspects of its aid freeze, its ramifications remain: the damage already done, the effects on work ...

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

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

What started out as a trivial story barely worthy of public attention has grown into a full-blown crisis for the Sitiveni Rabuka-led government in Fiji. A Commission of Inquiry (COI) report into the ...