Facebook shutdown, tenuously linked to terrorism, raises serious constitutional, goverance and human rights issues, say ...

The continuing prohibition on girls’ education beyond Year 6 imposes a profound burden on Afghan society and the economy, ...

Australia’s foreign aid (Official Development Assistance or ODA) for 2025-26 is budgeted at $5.097 billion, a 2.7% increase over the 2024-25 aid budget of $4.961 billion. With inflation projected at 3 ...

In an era of increased geopolitical competition, there are growing calls for policy makers and citizens in Australia and New Zealand to improve their understanding of the Pacific Islands region. To ...

Humanitarian work faces increasing challenges in adapting to a more dangerous and complex global order characterised by heightened conflict, geopolitical tensions, climate crises and resource scarcity ...

Papua New Guinea will celebrate its fiftieth anniversary as an independent nation in September 2025. This momentous milestone will undoubtedly be marked by jubilant celebrations. However, it also ...

Ongoing wars and conflict around the world expose how international law and norms can be co-opted. With the US pulling out again from the Paris Climate Agreement, and other international commitments, ...

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The Devpolicy Blog is based at the Development Policy Centre, Crawford School of Public Policy, College of Asia and the Pacific, The Australian National University.

Using a survey experiment with a representative sample of over 5,000 respondents in Australia, we find substantial and contradictory misperceptions across the number, origins and labour market ...

The Devpolicy Blog is based at the Development Policy Centre, Crawford School of Public Policy, College of Asia and the Pacific, The Australian National University.

The Devpolicy Blog is based at the Development Policy Centre, Crawford School of Public Policy, College of Asia and the Pacific, The Australian National University.