FSM and RMI face dramatic depopulation via US migration. Can rising incomes stabilise their populations, as in Niue and Cook Islands?

Survey reveals Highlands students dominate UPNG, with striking regional variations in gender composition across PNG.

Opinions on the NRL bid are divided along gender lines with more women opposing the deal, says Anna Kapil and Stephen Howes.

The young country faces its worst crisis since 2018 as conflict, climate disasters and collapsing health services converge, says Mamman Mustapha.

Pacific women experience well-documented inequalities in labour market participation and wage outcomes, often stemming from limited access to assets, finance and services, as well as enduring social ...

Rising remittances and the loss of workers may be the easy path but not lead to development of the home nation, says Naren Prasad.

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This report shares key findings from the first wave of the Pacific Labour Mobility Survey (PLMS). The PLMS is a new multi-country Pacific migration survey covering workers in three different schemes ...

Although the Trump administration is now attempting to walk back some of the most obviously murderous aspects of its aid freeze, its ramifications remain: the damage already done, the effects on work ...

Upon reclaiming power, the Taliban banned girls from schools above year six and women from work, with few exceptions, such as in the health sector. These regressive and stringent policies have exacted ...

In January this year, the managing director of Papua New Guinea’s Mineral Resources Authority declared that the proposal to develop what had once been touted as the world’s first deep-sea mine would ...

Source: Adapted from Gelu (2005:86), additions made for 2003–2018. The figure excludes acting prime ministers. Other scholars take the opposite view. They argue that political stability is only a ...