Category: Focus
Subnational government spending
By MAHOLOPA LAVEIL IN a previous article, titled Provincial revenue in PNG: inequitable, volatile and stagnant, I discussed how provincial revenue in PNG has performed over time, how inequitably it […]
Capital city, yet so dangerous
By MINETTA DANIELLA KAKARERE and MELIN WAMAS PORT Moresby is known to many as one of the most dangerous places to live in the country, apart from Lae and Mt […]
Real men don’t hit women
Ending the pandemic of violence against women and girls in Papua New Guinea and throughout the Pacific By TEVITA SERUILUMI LAST week, March 8 was International Women’s Day, a day […]
Nobody wins in a tribal fight
By STEVEN GARI AS a companion to Tuesday’s focus feature in The National (page 14) by Sinclaire Dinnen and Miranda Foresyth on armed conflict in the Highlands, and with the […]
Women’s Work: time to recognize their critical role in agriculture – and invest in it!
By Jong-Jin Kim, Assistant Director-General and Regional Representative, Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) Despite women’s significant contributions to our agrifood systems in the Asia-Pacific region, women […]
Addressing Highlands conflicts
Stop the see-saw between State and community-led responses to allow peace-building in conflicting zones, say the authors By SINCLAIR DINNEN and MIRANDA FORSYTH A QUESTION commonly asked about the inter-group […]
Paradox of empowerment
Gender norms and intimate partner violence in Papua New Guinea By ALEXANDER SMITH INTIMATE partner violence (IPV) is a global scourge, with nearly one in three women experiencing violence at […]
A new Porgera, old wine in new bottle
This is the second blog in a two-part series on the reopening of the Porgera gold mine. Read the first part of this blog on the devpolicy.org website. “It’s the […]
Agents of Change
Making all countries in Asia and the Pacific more dynamic, healthier, wealthier, and better By Dr QU Dongyu Director-General, Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) We all […]
Programme to transform PNG
By FRANK SENGE KOLMA POLITICS should not kill a country-changing initiative, says Department of Works and Highways secretary David Wereh. “It is too big for pettiness. It is too important […]