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Busa Jeremiah Wenogo

Busa Jeremiah Wenogo is a Papua New Guinean development economist who specialises in issues relating to informal economy, small to medium enterprises and financial inclusion.

26 September 2025

50 years of independence has failed the Polopa people

by Busa Jeremiah Wenogo

3 June 2024

The next chapter in PNG’s financial inclusion story

by Busa Jeremiah Wenogo

Man cooking food in Port Moresby, PNG (Paul Maina)

25 October 2022

Latest Port Moresby ban doomed to failure

by Busa Jeremiah Wenogo

Nigel Uyam operating a registration booth in Basamuk, Madang Province, September 2020

23 October 2020

SIM card deactivation in PNG and financial inclusion

by Amanda H A Watson and Busa Jeremiah Wenogo

17 July 2019

Street auto mechanics: providing relief to the struggling motorists of Port Moresby

by Busa Jeremiah Wenogo

Credit: Flickr/Commonwealth Secretariat/CC BY-NC-ND 2.0

1 May 2019

Upgrading settlements: better than bulldozers and guns

by Busa Jeremiah Wenogo

Credit: Bioversity International/Flickr/CC BY-NC-ND 2.0

22 March 2019

The informal economy under siege

by Busa Jeremiah Wenogo

Maseratis chartered to PNG for APEC 2018 (Credit: AirBridgeCargo Airlines)

9 November 2018

For PNG’s sake let’s hope hosting APEC is for the better

by Busa Jeremiah Wenogo

Part of the front cover of the CLRC Review of Informal Sector Act 2004

30 May 2018

Review of the Informal Sector Development & Control Act 2004 deserves a fitting end

by Busa Jeremiah Wenogo

A warning sign in PNG (Carsten Brink/Flickr/CC BY-NC-ND 2.0)

26 March 2018

A sensible approach to tackling the betel nut problem

by Busa Jeremiah Wenogo

Market in Madang, PNG (Tanaka Juuyoh/Flickr/CC BY 2.0)

29 January 2018

Organising the disorganised: the proposed Informal Economy Voice Strategy

by Busa Jeremiah Wenogo

Selling betelnut at market (Taro Taylor/Flickr/CC BY 2.0)

14 November 2017

Planning the unplanned: reflections on the PNG Government’s interventions in the informal economy

by Busa Jeremiah Wenogo

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