POLICY PROPOSALS FOR OPEN AND ACCOUNTABLE GOVERNMENT
IMPACT OF FOREIGN EXCHANGE ON AGRICULTURE EXPORTS AND IMPORTS
State of PNG Economy
PNG Needs Right To Information (RTI) Law to Address Public-Sector Corruption
2005 Ok Tedi CMCA village survey for the Mineral Policy Institute
The war torn or famine stricken under developed countries such as Somalia, Ethiopia and Rwanda clearly
have very basic health care needs. Primary and preventive strategies should be the priority.
Papua New Guinea (PNG) has long been a site of analysis for exploring the links between natural resources and conflict, having been cited as an example in prominent studies of the ‘natural resource curse’ and used as a source of learning in international debates on Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR). Over the past decade, this scholarship has expanded to encompass conflict analysis and peace building. This paper considers four themes identified in the contemporary literature, each with reference to examples drawn from PNG: 1) the costs
Agency and the « Avatar » narrative at the Porgera gold mine, Papua New Guinea
GESI policy 2013
PNG HCV Toolkit
oil palm
This report stems from a simple observation: that since Independence in 1975, Papua New Guinea’s economic and social development outcomes have not matched people’s aspirations or government promises. Indeed, despite the abundance of its riches, PNG lags behind its Pacific neighbours on many important development indicators.
Only 10 percent of the population in Papua New Guinea (PNG) has access to the national electricity grid, leaving 6.3 million people without access to the energy needed to meet their basic needs. Lack of reliable lighting limits people’s ability to undertake daily activities like household chores, reading, schoolwork, and conducting business outside of daylight hours.
Latest update on PAcific Countries and their economy by the Asian Development Bank
The 2020 State of Environment Report is the first for Papua New Guinea.
Systematic conservation planning identifies priority areas to cost-effectively
meet conservation targets. Yet, these tools rarely guide wholesale declaration
of reserve systems in a single time step due to financial and implementation
constraints. Rather, incremental scheduling of actions to progressively build
reserve networks is required. To ensure this incremental action is guided by
the original plan, and thus builds a reserve network that meets all conservation
targets, strategic scheduling, and iterative planning is needed
Research papers on rural development and poverty in PNG as part of the Asia-Pacific Viewpoint Journal Volume 46.