Ripples of past fighting reverberate through Wabi primary school in Papua New Guinea’s Southern Highlands. Floorless classrooms, empty window frames and gravel piles gathered for rebuilding all speak of recent violence. This school was shaken by the Wabi-Sumi tribal fight that broke out in late...
Papua New Guinea is the only country in the Pacific to sign onto the Open Government Partnership (OGP), a multilateral initiative of 76 countries that aims to promote transparent, participatory, inclusive and accountable governance. When it signed in 2015, PNG adopted commitments to improve access...
PNG’s Vice Minister for International Trade and Investment, the Hon. Kessy Sawang, once described the PNG government as being “addicted to debt”. The IMF has also described PNG as being at high risk of overall debt distress. PNG’s public debt grew from around 27% of GDP in 2012 to above 50%...
PNG’s 2023 budget is optimistic on the revenue front – by 2027 nominal revenue is expected to be over 40% higher than current levels, and the budget back in the black. The past decade however paints a gloomier picture. Annual government revenue has oscillated around K10-11 billion (in 2013...
A recent investigation reported in the Guardian newspaper suggested that more than 90% of the...
Quantitative studies of interhousehold transfers in Papua New Guinea are few and far between. In...
Angel Pesevski, a former colleague who became a good friend, passed away in Türkiye, one of the...
According to recent research, Papua New Guinea is one of the three countries in the world with the...
The new media development policy being proposed by the Papua New Guinea Communications Minister...
When we think of resource-dependent economies, we normally think of the Middle East, and economies...
