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Education Buzz (December 7): Education progress in Afghanistan | A policy...
Progress in education in Afghanistan A World Bank paper documents improvements in education in Afghanistan. Projects have benefited general, technical, and vocational education, and particularly...
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Shifting fiscal terrain in the Pacific?
The latest issue of Asian Development Bank’s (ADB’s) Pacific Economic Monitor, released last week, focuses on government budget outcomes and plans, and finds some reversals from recent years’ fiscal...
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What constitutes donor dependence? Health financing in the Pacific
Across the developing world and in the Pacific region in particular, there has long been criticism of the over-reliance on donors (indeed this topic has been highlighted recently on devpolicy with...
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Pacific predictions 2013 – Fiji falters, and more
Commodore Josaia Voreqe Bainimarama, Prime Minister of Fiji This time last year, I offered Pacific predictions for 2012: you can see them here. Looking back, I didn’t do too badly, so I thought I’d...
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2013 Fiji budget: an analysis
Fiji government budgets since 1987 have been prepared in the shadows of political instability and suspicion, coups, and uncertainty of the future. Even the general elections held under the 1997...
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Fiji’s 2013 budget: on the road to growth?
The Bainimarama Government delivered its sixth budget late last year. The budget significantly increases investment in infrastructure, especially roads, with new spending financed through government...
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Pacific Buzz (Jan. 30): Fiji elections |‘Mystery yacht’ | Poverty stagnation...
A fortnightly roundup of policy news in the Pacific by the Pacific Institute of Public Policy and the Development Policy Centre. POLITICS Fiji edges closer to 2014 elections amidst controversies Amidst...
View ArticleNote: Fine for Fiji Times raises questions about media freedom
The Fiji Times has been fined $300,000, and its publisher $10,000, for contempt of court. The editor in chief of the Fiji Times also received a suspended jail sentence of six months. The misdemeanour...
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Pacific Buzz (Feb. 27): ‘Dili consensus’| PNG sorcery and violence | Pacific...
A fortnightly roundup of policy news in the Pacific by the Pacific Institute of Public Policy and the Development Policy Centre. POLITICS g7+ holds post-MDG conference in Dili This week in Dili,...
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Peter Forau on why the Melanesian Spearhead Group is a success
Tess Newton Cain recently caught up with Peter Forau, the Director General of the Melanesian Spearhead Group Secretariat. You can read the full transcript of their interview here or download it as a...
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Pacific Buzz (March 13): PNG elections criticised | Fiji Wrap | Border...
A fortnightly roundup of policy news in the Pacific by the Pacific Institute of Public Policy and the Development Policy Centre. Politics 2012 PNG elections worse than 2007: Reports Papua New Guinea...
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A big day in the region
Photo: John Selkirk/Fairfax NZ Even for hardened political junkies, the events of yesterday were numerous, varied and a lot to take in. In Vanuatu, Fiji and Australia the chatter in real and virtual...
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Pacific Buzz (March 27): MSG’s growing strength | Polynesian pain | PNG moves...
Source: USP/MSG Politics MSG’s growing strength The Melanesian Spearhead Group (MSG) continued to celebrate its silver jubilee, marking its formation in 1988, with a special Melanesia Week. There have...
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PNG slowdown pushing regional growth lower in the Pacific in 2013
In the latest issue of the Pacific Economic Monitor, released yesterday (March 26), the ADB forecasts that the average rate of growth in its 14 developing member countries in the Pacific region will...
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Pacific Buzz (April 10): Fiji Constitution | Troop withdrawals | PNG reforms...
Photo: Fiji Ministry of Information A roundup of political and economic news by the Pacific Institute of Public Policy and the Development Policy Centre. Politics Fiji constitution submission deadline...
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Pacific Buzz (April 24): MSG politics | PNG-Fiji partnership | Foreign...
A roundup of political and economic news by the Pacific Institute of Public Policy and the Development Policy Centre. POLITICS MSG revs up for leaders’ summit The Melanesian Spearhead Group has become...
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Pacific Buzz (May 8): Solomons TRC release | Death penalty in PNG? | LNG...
Bishop Terry Brown. Source: Otago Daily Times. A roundup of political and economic news by the Pacific Institute of Public Policy and the Development Policy Centre. Solomon Islands PM urged to table...
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Australia’s ban on the World Bank and the ADB lending to Fiji
If you go to the DFAT website to look at the sanctions Australia imposes on Fiji because of its military rule, you will conclude that they relate to military assistance and personal travel. You...
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Pacific Buzz (June 5): PNG death penalty | Fiji loan block | SDP to exit Ok...
A roundup of political and economic news by the Pacific Institute of Public Policy and the Development Policy Centre. POLITICS PNG repeals Sorcery Act, enacts death penalty The parliament of Papua New...
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Australian influence on WB and ADB loans to Fiji: the China factor
Photo: Xinhua/Jiang Xianming A recent excellent article by Stephen Howes argues that it is contradictory of Australia and NZ to have influenced the World Bank (WB) and Asian Development Bank (ADB) to...
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