Asia & the Pacific Policy Studies

APPS has received an impact factor of 2.381 for 2021, its second consecutive increase, placing the journal 10th of 84 titles in Area Studies. Congratulations to our contributors, editors, peer reviewers and all involved on this exciting increase in rankings!

Issue 3/2022 out now: special issue on social & economic impacts of #OnlineMarketplaces on #WomenInAsia PLUS original articles on #COVID-19 in the #Pacific, political attitudes in #Samoa, marketplaces in #PNG, and more! @ANUCrawford @devpolicy onlinelibrary.wiley.com/toc/20502680/2…

Just published! ‘Market update: Sixty years of change in Papua New Guineaʼs fresh food marketplaces’ by Timothy L. M. Sharp, Mark Busse and R. Michael Bourke. #PapuaNewGuinea doi.org/10.1002/app5.3… onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.10…

Just published! ‘COVID-19 in the #Pacific territories: Isolation, borders and the complexities of governance’ in which John Connell discusses how although #COVID19 allowed some focus on a ‘new normal’, returning to the status quo took precedence. onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.10…

Just published! The path to kina convertibility: An analysis of Papua New Guineaʼs foreign exchange market by Martin Davies (@mahadavies) and Marcel Schröder. #PapuaNewGuinea #EconTwitter onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.10…

Just published! Popular political attitudes in Samoa: Findings of the Pacific Attitudes Survey by @MP_Leach, @JulienBarbara and colleagues from @NUSSamoa @Swinburne and @anudpa. @ANUCrawford @devpolicy

Just published: Why does #CurrencyDenomination in external liabilities of small island developing states matter? Evidence from #Fiji by Devendra Kumar Jain, Rup Singh, Henali Kumar, Nikeel Kumar, Arvind Patel. @ANUCrawford @devpolicy @UNDP_Pacific onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.10…

Just published: Analysis of wage arbitrage through skilled emigration of Pacific workers by Satish Chand, Michael Clemens and Helen Dempster. @SatishCha @m_clem @helen_dempster @CGDev @UNSWCanberra @ANUCrawford @devpolicy #SeasonalWorkers #LabourMobility doi.org/10.1002/app5.3…

Issue 2/2022 out now: #diagnostic services in #AsiaPacific, #malaria elimination targets in #India, #TimorLeste #SeasonalWorkers, coastal development in #Philippines, political instability in #PNG & recentralisation of #Healthcare infrastructure in #China. quicklink.anu.edu.au/60zt

New: Global labour, local frameworks: #TimorLeste and Australiaʼs #SeasonalWorkerProgramme by @DrMichaelRose1 doi.org/10.1002/app5.3… #LabourMobility #migration #ethnographic @devpolicy

New: Barriers to integrating diagnostic and surveillance services for febrile illnesses in #AsiaPacific by Gamuchirai Pamela Gwaza (@FINDdx) @marie_lamy @Datta_Rittika & @SabineDittrich #malaria @APLMA_Malaria @APMEN @devpolicy doi.org/10.1002/app5.3…

The survival of a government for its full term is not the only measure of stability, says @Henry_Ivarature. Ministerial stability and longevity are also important for a stable policy environment. #PNGElections2022 devpolicy.org/political-inst…

“The MCDF has the potential to play an important role in closing the financing gap for sustainable infrastructure,” say Mathias Lund Larsen, Christoph Nedopil and Yue Mengdi. devpolicy.org/mcdfs-untapped…

New: The hidden dimension to political instability: Insights from ministerial durations in #PNG, 1972–2017. @Henry_Ivarature introduces dataset of 321 MPs to reveal governments with high, low and mixed ministerial stability. doi.org/10.1002/app5.3… @devpolicy

Growing seaweed has become an important source of income in the Philippines, but not all communities are seeing success - Edo Andriesse from @SNUnow explores why. policyforum.net/inclusive-deve…

“The insertion of low-income coastal communities that rely on fishing into the global seaweed chain has benefited tens of thousands of households. But success is by no means guaranteed,” says Edo Andriesse. #Philippines #InclusiveDevelopment devpolicy.org/sowing-the-sea…

Interesting findings on meeting #malaria targets in #India and #SoutheastAsia from this new study published in @APPSCrawford. Thanks to @marie_lamy and @APLMA_Malaria for their part in this research. onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/ap…

New: Stakeholder perceptions of meeting #malaria elimination targets #India #SoutheastAsia by Jamie Guth, @marie_lamy, Nikhil Murali, Patil Pankaj & Yongyuth Yuthavong @APLMA_Malaria @APMEN @bairdscmc @Novartis @devpolicy doi.org/10.1002/app5.3…

New: Local divergence and obstacles to spur inclusive coastal development in Iloilo Province, the #Philippines by Dr Edo Andriesse doi.org/10.1002/app5.3… #climatechange #aquaculture #coastallivelihoods #BlueEconomy @devpolicy @bfarph @SNU_AsiaCenter

Also trending in #AreaStudies: ooir.org/trending.php?d… • Crimean Tatar Infrastructures of Decolonial Care • Environmentalisms in Thailand • Detecting Grassroots Bribery & Its Sources in China • Recentralisation & Primary Care Infrastructure in China (@APPSCrawford)