Development agencies tend to think that telling people about the detrimental social, environmental and economic outcomes associated with corruption will increase resistance against it. In turn, around the world, donors and others have spent millions of dollars on anti-corruption advocacy. Papua New...
On the 25th of January this year, Papua New Guinea’s Post Courier newspaper reported that the National Court had just overturned a decision made by a provincial land court magistrate in 2006. The decision in question was meant to resolve a dispute between two members of a Huli clan about the...
In the lead-up to last year’s APEC meeting, PNG and Filipino officials met beside rice paddies on the outskirts of Port Moresby to sign an unprecedented agreement. The recently signed five-year memorandum of agreement (MoA) calls for cooperation between the two governments in a range of...
It is not strange to hear researchers or policymakers complaining about the lack of complete, timely and reliable data in Papua New Guinea (PNG). Speaking for our field of research (macro-econometrics), the adverse effects of PNG’s poor data can be best seen in the inconsistency of the country’s...
On my first posting to Papua New Guinea (PNG) working for the Australian Government’s aid program...
The people of Papua New Guinea woke up to 2018 as the ‘year of APEC’. The thought of having some of...
Papua New Guinea’s law and justice sector is set to receive a 22 per cent increase in the country’s...
This is the final blog presenting the findings of a research project exploring the impact of family...
Previously, we introduced our research project in Lae and provided some emerging results on the...
At the start of the 21st century, Papua New Guinea declared that leprosy was eliminated. Eliminated...
