For the past couple of years we have been examining the evidence for improvement in the quality of public financial management (PFM) and its impact on socio-economic outcomes. Frankly the evidenc...
https://devpolicy.org/the-road-to-improvement-governance-indicators-and-social-outcomes-20240520/
Last month, writing for this blog, I said, “in coming months, further protests will convulse New Caledonia, as French President Macron and Overseas Minister Gérald Darmanin try to ram through ...
I am currently a final year female economics student at the University of Papua New Guinea, living in Port Moresby. But my teenage years were spent in my little village called Krupia, near Boikin...
https://devpolicy.org/life-is-challenging-but-also-rewarding-20240516/
Foreign aid was increased by 4% over what had been projected last year to bring the 2024-25 aid budget to $4.961 billion, virtually unchanged from the (inflation-adjusted) 2023-24 level of $4.900...
https://devpolicy.org/2024-aid-spending-and-effectiveness-update/
Leadership, governance, and accountability are among the World Health Organization’s core building blocks of the health system. They are foundational to strengthening the effectiveness and f...
https://devpolicy.org/limited-governance-leadership-and-accountability-in-phas-in-png-20240506/
Pacific countries have long complained about the difficulties involved in short-term business travel to Australia and New Zealand. APEC, the Asia-Pacific regional body that brings together some 2...
https://devpolicy.org/time-for-a-pacific-business-travel-card-20240513/
Two decades of conflict and nation-building in Afghanistan have brought both suffering and hope for Afghan women. But any hard-won progress towards equality and human rights for Afghan women, onc...
https://devpolicy.org/restricted-visa-pathways-for-afghan-women-20240510/
Over the past decade, China’s involvement in Africa’s infrastructure sector has been enormous, with the Boston University Global Development Policy Center estimating that between 2000 and 202...
https://devpolicy.org/chinese-infrastructure-development-in-uganda-triumphs-and-trials/
It was 2019 when the two of us crossed paths through education. We never knew our comradeship would be an extraordinary one, changing the course of our lives. Although we came from two different ...
https://devpolicy.org/like-minded-peers-embrace-education-and-leadership-20240508/
Solomon Islands’ elections are normally principally domestic affairs, but the polls held on 17 April 2024 threw the country into the international spotlight. They were widely predicted to yield...
https://devpolicy.org/solomon-islands-an-incumbents-defeat-and-resurrection-20240507/