Evidence has shown for a long time that the best way out of poverty is to increase incomes and access to resources. So why hasn’t policy responded? Gill Main writes about a ground-breaking study from the UK that aims to help policymakers hear the real story.

Vietnam is facing a number of environmental pitfalls and policy hurdles on its path towards a sustainable energy sector, Frauke Urban, Giuseppina Siciliano, Linda Wallbott, Markus Lederer and Anh Nguyen Dang write.

This week’s Policy Forum Pod takes a look at how Australia can navigate the deep currents of environmental policy and water justice for Australia’s First Peoples.

If PNG is to improve the supply of health, education, and other key services at the local level, there must be more demand for it by individual households, Ron Duncan and Chris Banga write.

Competing definitions of the Pacific’s latest development buzzword are inherently political, Matthew Dornan, Tess Newton Cain, Wesley Morgan, and Sandra Tarte write.

As Australia looks to develop a robust energy export strategy in the Asia-Pacific, it must keep a wary eye on Russia, Elizabeth Buchanan writes in this chapter from Securing our Energy, the new publication from the ANU College of Asia & the Pacific.