Devpolicy Blog from the Development Policy Centre

This year’s oil crisis has sent the costs of energy skyrocketing for many countries, including diesel-dependent Pacific countries, some of which have declared a state of emergency in response to fuel shortages and rising c...

The term Global Syndemic was first coined in a 2019 Lancet Commission report by Swinburn et al., which described “obesity, undernutrition and climate change” as “three of the gravest threats to human health and survival”. Few regions il...

At the end of July, New Zealand’s Immigration Minister Erica Stanford took the stage at the annual

The Pacific has a communications problem that extends well beyond social media.

The region covers almost one-third of the Earth’s surface, with small populations scattered across vast distances. Individually, Pacific Island countries have limited global economic and political influence. For these countries, reliable communications are both critical and difficult to con...

Australia’s aid transparency architecture has changed significantly in recent years. Through AusDevPortal, renewed reporting to the International Aid Transparency Initiative (IATI) and enhanced performance repor...