Devpolicy Blog from the Development Policy Centre

We arrived in Aseki in the dark and rain. The road had already turned to mud. The climb from Lae had taken the full day, but the new road into Kaintiba still lay ahead. Connect PNG can bring roads to communities that have never had vehicle access befor...

People in Kaintiba call their part of Anga’s interior “no man’s land.” Better services, for them, meant being able to stay. One line came up often when people talked about services: “We won’t need to go far. We will be treated here.” Schools, health clinics and village courts are operating. Communities keep them going.

People live in scattered hamlets and come at inter...

I have been talking about this since around 2015, long before recent news about Nauru considering a return to its original name, Naoero, and long before the re-emergence of conversations in Fiji about reclai...

The surge in global oil prices following the US-Iran conflict has exposed the extent of Pacific economies’ vulnerability to fuel supply shocks. At its peak, prices climbed to over US$118 per barrel, placing immediate pressure on the region. In Fiji and Solomon I...

Artificial intelligence (AI) is often discussed as something that will reshape higher education in the future. But for many students, that future has already arrived.

At the University of Papua New Guinea (UPNG), students are already using AI tools to search for information, summarise readings, draft ideas, improve their writing and prepare job applications. This does ...