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"PNG’s low-skill urban workforce reports a worrying signal of lower diet quality & high NCD risk scores, potentially setting the stage for a growing burden of chronic disease," says Emily Schmidt, Kristi Mahrt & Helmtrude Sikas Iha. @IFPRI @IFPRIResearch devpolicy.org/half-a-days-pa…
Submit your 3 Minute Aid Pitch now! 📢 AAC2026 call for papers open until 21 August Details on the call at the Devpolicy ANU website crawford.anu.edu.au/devpolicy/2026… @Asia_Foundation | @AbtGlobalImpact | @aciar | @AdamSmithInt | @Cowater_Intl | @TetraTech | @CrawfordSchool | @TAFinPI
"Most #PALM workers keep a substantial wage after taxes and deductions, and reforms appear quite well targeted at the minority who might not," says @ryanbedwards from @devpolicy. #Pacific #labourmobility devpolicy.org/reading-palm-n…
🚨Registration open!🚨 Join us as Bobby Kunda and Kingtau Mambon presents “Informality, Incidence and Pass-through of PNG’s VAT Exemptions" ⏰3 July, 12.30-1.30pm PGT / AEST 📍In person @CrawfordSeminar7 or #UPNG or Zoom 📝 Register: events.devpolicy.org/20260703
"Our development ambitions are high, but without a stronger delivery culture, the gap between policy and reality will persist," says Jack Assa from the University of PNG. "Malaysia’s experience offers a practical model for PNG." devpolicy.org/transforming-p… #LabOpenDay @PEMANDUAssoc
ICYMI ➡️ AAC2026 call for papers is now open! Get organised for the 21 August deadline Join us 2-4 Dec for Australasian AID Conf with @Asia_Foundation at @ANUCrawford, Canberra. Details ➡️ crawford.anu.edu.au/devpolicy/2026… Subscribe ➡️ devpolicy.org/subscribe/ #AAC2026
“[Hanson reminds us] Pacific govts have a direct interest in keeping the contest going as its ending — either in the form of one rival withdrawing or both rivals reaching agreement … would crash the price of alignment,” says Cameron Hill from @devpolicy. devpolicy.org/please-explain…
🚨Registration open!🚨 Join us as Bobby Kunda and Kingtau Mambon presents “Informality, Incidence and Pass-through of PNG’s VAT Exemptions" ⏰3 July, 12.30-1.30pm PGT / AEST 📍In person @CrawfordSeminar7 or #UPNG or Zoom 📝 Register: events.devpolicy.org/20260703
“Whether a child grows up carrying a debt of revenge or a tie of obligation is being settled in one of the most ordinary places there is, in what we decide to call them,” says Miranda Forsyth from @ANURegNet. devpolicy.org/can-a-name-dri…
“Most people do not prefer greater energy subsidies from their governments; they want other compensation policies,” says Christopher Hoy from the World Bank. devpolicy.org/how-households…
“The guide does not argue that cultural values should be bypassed in the name of rights,” says Uate Tamanikaiyaroi from @ESEAOR_IPPF. “The values Pacific communities already hold… are compatible with pleasure-centred, rights-based sexuality education”. devpolicy.org/reclaiming-the…
“The real policy question [for Solomon Islands] is therefore not whether education should be free,” says @AqorauTransform, Hugo Bugoro & Anouk Ride from SINU. “The real question is: free for whom, at what level, covering which costs and funded by whom?]” devpolicy.org/free-education…
🚨Registration open!🚨 Join us as Bobby Kunda and Kingtau Mambon presents “Informality, Incidence and Pass-through of PNG’s VAT Exemptions" ⏰3 July, 12.30-1.30pm PGT / AEST 📍In person @CrawfordSeminar7 or #UPNG or Zoom 📝 Register: events.devpolicy.org/20260703
We are pleased to announce that the ANU-UPNG partnership has been renewed for another 4 years. It will ensure students like Natasha Andrew will have the opportunity to expand their horizons through activities such as the ANU-UPNG Summer School. #PNGAusPartnership
The second blog in our two-part series on the increased number of backpacker visas being granted in Australia is out today. Stephen Howes and Finn Clarke from the Development Policy Centre look at possible reforms to the backpacker visa program. devpolicy.org/the-second-bac…
➡️Share the AAC2026 call for papers with your colleagues now! Get organised for the 21 August deadline Join us 2-4 Dec for Australasian AID Conf with @Asia_Foundation at @ANUCrawford, Canberra. Details ➡️ crawford.anu.edu.au/devpolicy/2026… Subscribe ➡️ devpolicy.org/subscribe/ #AAC2026
How do you explain the current boom in backpacker visa numbers in Australia? @stephenrhowes & Finn Clarke from @devpolicy look at the biggest increase in visas since the first boom in 2012-13. Look out for their second blog on necessary reform tomorrow. devpolicy.org/the-second-bac…
DYK❓This week's Saturday Extra was a special report by the Kaintiba Research Team. Our two-blog series, "The road into no-man's land" presents images, videos and testimonies exploring service delivery in Anga's interior - a remote region of PNG. Visit devpolicy.org
“The private security industry plays a large and relatively under-examined role enabling projects to proceed throughout the region, particularly in a place like PNG,” says Gordon Peake in a review of Christopher Whitcomb’s book Anonymous Male. devpolicy.org/spies-security…
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