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 latest OECD reporting on public and private climate finance shows that this finance reached a combined US$133 billion in ...

Devpolicy's latest poll on Australian attitudes to aid reveals disappointing, predictable and surprising findings about aid support.

Cameron Hill unpacks Pauline Hanson's National Press Club remarks on Australian aid, China and corruption in the Pacific.

The Pacific Engagement Visa (PEV) provides up to 3,000 permanent residency visas for citizens of up to 12 Pacific island countries and Timor-Leste. To obtain a PEV visa, you first must enter a ballot, ...

A Pacific worker putting in 30 hours on an Australian farm, earning $937 and taking home just over $100 after deductions, as put to a Senate committee in 2022, became, for many people, a defining ...

Ever since the effective closure of the Strait of Hormuz, policymakers worldwide have been asking themselves two important questions: how will households cope, and what support do they want from their ...

What’s in a name? Can a name drive peace? I recently came across a scholar with a fascinating focus: how personal naming practices can be used to promote peace. There is a broad literature on names as ...

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 tumultuous dispute over the selection of the Secretary General of the Pacific Islands Forum (PIF), which led to Micronesian countries deciding to withdraw from the premier regional organisation, ...