Capacity building and central banking in the Pacific
COVID-19 has no doubt brought back to the policymaking table many lingering, once believed to be settled, issues—much more than the 2007 Global Financial Crisis… Read More
Pacific Outlook
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Weekly Pacific Bulletin
TESS NEWTON CAIN | Former Prime Minister arrested on arrival in PNG Former Prime Minister Peter O’Neill was arrested on his arrival into… Read More
Crisis, resilience and agency in the Pacific
“For Vanuatu while the government is giving out its relief supply, people in the communities are mobilising and bringing raw food crops to the people in the affected areas … Read More
Monetary policy statement by the Governor of the Bank of Papua New Guinea
Mr Loi M Bakani CMG, Governor of the Bank of Papua New Guinea The spread of Coronavirus, Covid-19, and its adverse impact through the disruption… Read More
Weekly Pacific Bulletin
TESS NEWTON CAIN | Rights groups call for an investigation into Fiji prisons service NGOs focused on the protection of human rights have… Read More
To bubble or not to bubble – there are Pacific questions
TESS NEWTON CAIN | It should not come as a surprise to learn that there have been mixed responses from Pacific leaders… Read More
Coronavirus in the Pacific: weekly briefing
Griffith Asia Institute's Tess Newton Cain and Dan McGarry share a weekly update on Covid19 in the Pacific. Read More
COVID-19 and the PICs: Where to from here?
Economies around the world—small, large, developing, developed, emerging—all sizes and types—are now at some point in the post-COVID-19 economic recovery phase. Among these, the case… Read More
Does finance matter for health in the Pacific Island countries?
Literature has established that finance matters for a country’s economic growth; does it matter for health as well? Studies investigating this question are emerging—this study… Read More
Weekly Pacific Bulletin
TESS NEWTON CAIN | Tensions in Port Moresby Tensions in Port Moresby rose after a senior police officer was killed by off… Read More
