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From Kaoro Kanooa on Women in New Zealand’s RSE scheme: a small but stable workforce
I would love to be one of the Kiribati women working in New Zealand.
From Rohan Fox on How resource-rich is Papua New Guinea really?
Thanks Ryan, really useful! Apologies for the delay, I didn't get an email notification of replies. Yes that WB paper is excellent (and in fact cited in the blog), and yes would also be interested to look through the mine location dataset at some stage. Cheers.
From Rohan Fox on How resource-rich is Papua New Guinea really?
Hi Raphael, apologies for the delay, really interesting points. On other Pacific countries, they don't really have oil/mining to any important degree - Fiji has a little, Sols does have high resource rents - but from forestry - so PNG is very much an outlier in its landmass size, population size and mining/oil dependence in the Pacific. On reserves, there are certainly many new resource projects in discussions, and a doubling of output at some time in the future seems possible - though as mentioned, this would put PNG at the level of Timor-Leste. Highlighting that future revenues are not likely to turn PNG into a Fiji or Mauritius or Malaysia or Azerbaijan. You're right that 2021 is somewhat of an outlier, however, at least for PNG its average resource rent as % of GDP for the last 20 years was around 20%, while in 2021 it was 27%, so it likely overstates the importance of resources in PNG historically. Though at the same time resources have been increasing in importance as a % of GDP in PNG in the last few years too.
From Malaki Lyambi on How could PNG’s income tax schedule be improved?
A 30% minimum non zero income tax rate is too high. This can disincentivize work or formal employment, especially for the low- income earners.
From Aana Tibiriano on Women in New Zealand’s RSE scheme: a small but stable workforce
I would like to be one of Kiribati women working overseas.
From Dr. Bernadette Pinnell on Material remittances in Pacific labour schemes
Thanks for sharing this important work, Rochelle
From Frank Asu on Social challenges in PNG
Indeed this is clear evaluation and and Government should look into the social factors that affect the education system in PNG
From David Craig on The 2025 Australian election: consequential for Pacific migration
Terrific to have this summary. This kind of policy attention is much needed at this juncture: Pacific integration into regional connectedness/ opportunity has to be a real and substantive possibility.
From Raphael Merx on How resource-rich is Papua New Guinea really?
Super interesting comparison, where we realise that, Gulf countries aside, Australia (and Russia!) are really "up there" in terms of resource revenues per capita.
Would be interesting to look at:
- comparison with other Pacific countries
- comparison of reserves. Maybe PNG has a lot of them compared to resource rent?
Also maybe looking at 2021 only skews the analysis, given how volatile resource prices have been since then.
From Abraham Moroka on Make PNG’s National Goals relevant again
The national goals and directive principles in the preamble inspires human integral development of equality and participation, the majority of PNG's population must equal participation in the formal economy. emphasis should be focus address the financial literacy and infrastructure connective. The people must formally connect to monetize economy to enhance living standard access and usage of financial services. Thats PNG's vision 2050
From Barry Abel on Subnational government spending in PNG