IFPRI-PNG has released its July 2026 quarterly newsletter, featuring a new blog post that focuses on the affordability of healthy diets among low-skilled wage workers in urban Papua New Guinea. The issue also includes details of a new peer-reviewed paper published in the Journal of Food Security that discusses healthy diet targets and poverty measurements in […]
Half a day’s pay for a healthy household diet in PNG
Survey data suggest that in Port Moresby (POM), feeding an entire household a nutritious diet for a single day requires 45% of a low-skill worker’s daily wage. The healthy diet burden eases somewhat outside of the capital: 41% in Kokopo, 38% in Lae and 37% in the Highlands. The reasons behind these regional differences are layered. […]
PNG-AFNP Quarterly Newsletter April 2026
IFPRI-PNG has released its April 2026 quarterly newsletter, featuring new findings from the Papua New Guinea Low Skill Urban Wage Survey, offering regionally and gender-disaggregated insights on earnings, payment preferences, purchasing power, and food affordability. The issue also includes a working paper assessing the economic impacts of the 2025 U.S. tariffs on PNG’s trade, GDP, […]
PNG-AFNP Quarterly Newsletter January 2026
IFPRI-PNG released its January 2026 quarterly newsletter, which features new research on the economywide and regional impacts of public investments and external shocks on agricultural production, income, consumption, and trade. The newsletter also includes a working paper examining the associations between women’s empowerment and child nutrition outcomes across Papua New Guinea, Timor-Leste, and Sri Lanka. […]
Adanced CGE modelling workshop with PNG’s Department of National Planning and Monitoring and Department of Treasury
The International Food Policy Research Institute conducted a weeklong capacity strengthening event at its headquarters in Washinton D.C, from June 28th to August 6th, 2025. The workshop was attended by policy analysts from Papua New Guinea’s Department of National Planning and Monitoring and the Department of Treasury. The session focused on refining macroeconomic models and […]
