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Past Events 2024

This page provides a list of archived events we have held, including video recordings, related blogs, and (more recently) audio podcasts: Devpolicy Talks.

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Factors influencing Papua New Guinea not to implement the death penalty
1.30–2.30pm 25 October 2024
Moses Sakai, Research Fellow, Papua New Guinea National Research Institute

Despite efforts to reinstate the death penalty, PNG did not implement it since independence. This study aimed to identify the factors that influenced PNG not to implement the death penalty.

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Students in Tonga (World Bank/Tom Perry)
Tonga: Navigating Turbulent Waves Toward Sustained Poverty Reduction
12.30–1.30pm 23 October 2024
Shohei Nakamura, Economist, Poverty and Equity, World Bank

The World Bank has just concluded its 2024 Tonga Poverty and Equity Assessment report, which examines the extent, nature, and drivers of poverty and inequality in the country.

This World Bank assessment uses findings from the 2021 Household Income and Expenditure Survey and compares them with the 2015/16 to highlight poverty patterns and trends.

The seminar will present key findings from the report, as well as other ongoing analytical works in the Pacific region.

Speaker: Shohei Nakamura, Economist, Poverty and Equity Global Practice, World Bank

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Otonomi bilong wanem? Autonomy for what?
12.30–1.30pm 27 September 2024
James Reid Stiefvater, PhD Candidate, Massey University

This presentation delves into the intricate social identities in Papua New Guinea (PNG) and focuses on the challenges and negotiations between dynamic local identities with state politics and development policies and processes in PNG. Using tok stori methodology, the research explores relationships between multiple layers of identities and state development policies of redistribution of resources, and their role as drivers in movements for greater decentralisation via special autonomy in the subnational island jurisdictions of East New Britain Province (ENB) and the Autonomous Region of Bougainville (AROB).

The location-specific focus of this research seeks to understand what Indigenous peoples in these provinces hope to gain through special autonomy and the dynamics between local identities and government development. This examination of the interfaces between identities, development, and decentralisation and how they are strategized within provincial and state governments will shed light on the contemporary dynamics of the state of PNG as we ask the question, “autonomy for what?”.

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2024 Pacific Migration Workshop
9am–5pm 3 September 2024
Various

The Development Policy Centre’s annual Pacific Migration Workshop is an important forum for discussion of Pacific migration issues and their economic, social, political, and environmental dimensions.

The 2024 Pacific Migration Workshop will be held on 3 September in Canberra.

This year’s theme is Expanding Opportunities for Pacific Migration.

Panel sessions include: climate (im)mobilities and resilience; economic and social dimensions of migration; and new developments in low-skilled temporary labour migration.


View slides from the Workshop.

Watch session recordings on Devpolicy YouTube.

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Timor-Leste's economic development & priorities
11.30am–12.30pm 29 May 2024
Helder-Lopes, Central Bank Governor of Timor-Leste

Helder Lopes, Governor of the Central Bank of Timor-Leste, will present Timor-Leste’s economic development and key economic priorities across seven outlines: economic growth, inflation, employment, public finance, monetary sector, external sector, and policy priority.

This event is a joint event hosted by Development Policy Centre and Centre for Applied Macroeconomic Analysis as a part of Special Visit Program of Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade.

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