China proposed the Belt and Road Initiative (BRI) in 2013, to improve connectivity and cooperation on a transcontinental scale. Quantifying impacts for a project as vast as the BRI is a major challenge. This report aims to help participating countries choose the kinds of investments and reforms that will best meet their development needs.

Community Colleges Australia has produced this report for the NSW Department of Industry, with the aim to ensure that the NSW government can use the capacity of Western Sydney not-for-profit community education providers to support that region’s economic development priorities.

With 110,136 people spread across 33 atolls and 3.5 million square kilometres of ocean, Kiribati faces significant economic and service delivery challenges. In addition to being one of the most vulnerable countries in the world, and one most affected by climate change, other challenges stem from a highly dispersed population, remoteness to major markets, lack...

In this ASPI Strategic Insight, Stephanie Copus-Campbell describes her personal history with a key neighbour to Australia’s north and examines the complex and difficult challenges that PNG faces.

This report argues that the Belt and Road Initiative (BRI) has been a mixed bag for China, in terms of its outward investments and economic and strategic outreach plans.