Thursday, May 20, 2021
New Zealand’s centre-left government has unveiled what it called the largest boost to welfare payments in “more than a generation” as the centrepiece of its budget, and pledged to fuel a Covid-19 recovery by addressing the country’s most pressing social...
Wednesday, December 16, 2020
Growth in the Pacific subregion for 2020 has been further downgraded as the impact of the coronavirus disease (COVID-19) pandemic continues to squeeze the region’s economies.
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Oceania, Cook Islands, Fiji, Kiribati, Marshall Islands, Micronesia, Nauru, New Zealand, Niue, Palau, Papua New Guinea, Samoa, Solomon Islands, Tonga, Tuvalu, Vanuatu
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Friday, June 26, 2020
Former Prime Minister Helen Clark has thrown her support behind calls for a guaranteed minimum income as a “buffer against the effects of not only economic recession, but also high levels of loneliness, isolation, and psychological distress”. The...
Friday, December 7, 2018
While Ambaean evacuees in Vanuatu are preparing to return to their island after evacuating several months ago Oxfam has stepped in to roll out cash transfers to them.
Oxfam's Cash Transfer Programme, funded by New Zealand's Ministry of Foreign Affairs...