Understanding the regional pattern of population aging in China enables rational policy making to address the challenges of inequity in social welfare and care resources among the east–central–west regions and rural–urban...
Government and governance
The Pacific islands in the twenty‐first century
Editorial for the Special Issue of Asia & the Pacific Policy Studies: The Pacific islands in the twenty-first century Guest Editors: Matthew Dornan and Ron Duncan Issue number: 5(3) September 2018...
Australia’s north, Australia’s future: a vision and strategies for sustainable economic, ecological and social prosperity in northern Australia
The release of the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals and the Paris Climate Change agreement highlighted the importance of global sustainability internationally. Here, we outline a vision and strategies for developing...
Pacific seasonal workers: learning from the contrasting temporary migration outcomes in Australian and New Zealand horticulture
“Crowding out” is a widely accepted claim in migration analysis, which posits that the preference of profit‐maximising employers for irregular and minimally regulated migrants overregulated alternatives will undermine, if not condemn...
The Complex Interdependence of China’s Belt and Road Initiative in the Philippines
Complex interdependence refers to the multiple channels of interaction and agenda in interstate relations, which involve domestic (public and private) stakeholders and nonmilitary issues. Since the Belt and Road Initiative (BRI)...
What’s in a term? “Green growth” and the “blue‐green economy” in the Pacific islands
The term “green growth” and its sister concepts, “blue‐green growth,” the “green economy,” and the “blue‐green economy,” have gained considerable traction in the Pacific island region in a short space of...