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The PRP consortium is led by the ANU Department of Pacific Affairs, in partnership with the Development Policy Centre and the Lowy Institute, and is co-funded by Australia’s Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade, and the consortium partners’ parent bodies. The PRP is now in Phase II (2022-2026) and will take forward new and ongoing research in key priority areas of: gender, inclusion and social change; labour mobility and integration; politics, governance and economic resilience; Papua New Guinea (and Bougainville); and security, regionalism and geopolitics.

The Development Policy Centre leads the PRP’s research into economic development and Pacific migration and integration and is co-host of the annual Pacific Update conference with the University of the South Pacific.

Pacific Research Program

Current areas of our PRP research include:

  • Pacific migration and integration

  • Analysis of Pacific migration and the diaspora using Australian administrative data

  • Economic development in the Pacific

  • Small Firm Diaries Fiji

  • The Pacific Labour Mobility Survey

  • Migration attitudes and perceptions in Australia

  • The Remittance Diaries

  • The ADBI-ANU Pacific Research Partnership

  • Policy and program evaluation, particularly promoting and using randomised controlled trials (RCTs)

  • Analysis of the economic impact of and responses to COVID-19

Find out more
Pacific Migration
DFAT/Samuel Phelps

Pacific migration
small firm diaries fiji

Small Firm Diaries Fiji
Covid-19 in the Pacific

Pacific Covid economic database

Other Pacific resources
Pacific Economic Bulletin

Pacific Economic Bulletin

Devpol maintains the archives of the Pacific Economic Bulletin. PEB was published by ANU's Asia Pacific Press between 1988-2010. It is an important historical resource related to PNG and the Pacific economic and policy developments.
DPA Election Observation team, Samoa 2016
by DPA

Samoa Election Results Database

The Samoa Election Results Database is an interactive website created by the Development Policy Centre, under the lead of Research Fellow Terence Wood.
Solomon Islands Elections

Solomon Islands Election Resources

This is a website, administered by Terence Wood, is devoted to Solomon Islands election results and resources.
Asia and the Pacific Policy Studies

Asia & the Pacific Policy Studies

Asia & the Pacific Policy Studies is the flagship, peer-reviewed journal of the Crawford School of Public Policy at The Australian National University.