Most indicators of health and education are much lower in Papua New Guinea (PNG) than they are in other countries in the Pacific. Successive waves of decentralisation have devolved most responsibility for service delivery to the country's Provincial Governments (PGs) yet a widespread...

This paper investigates aid effectiveness in Melanesia, a region consisting of Fiji, Papua New Guinea, the Solomon Islands, Vanuatu and New Caledonia. These countries are of great interest since they have not performed well despite being rich in resources and receiving large amounts of foreign...