Australia has, for the second year in a row, provided a budget support loan to Papua New Guinea. ...
Category - PNG
Patriarchy and corrupt political practices are hindering female...
PNG is mainly a patriarchal society, where men are in charge of everything from the home to...
The 2021 census risks failing again
Papua New Guinea plans to conduct its fifth national census in July this year. The last census in...
What is the population of Papua New Guinea?
The short answer to the question posed above is that nobody knows and there is no official estimate...
Lofty ambitions meet hard reality: reflections on PNG’s economic...
Papua New Guinea’s National Statistical Office (NSO) celebrated World Statistics Day on 20 October...
Kina’s Westpac offer: why a banking duopoly would be bad for PNG
The much-anticipated bid for Westpac Pacific (PNG and Fiji) operations by Kina Securities (the...
Painting to protect: keeping schools out of tribal fights in PNG
Kennedy Makande is a grade eight student at Kepalam Primary School in the Highlands of Papua New...
Morauta’s masterclass in economic reform: part two
How did he do it? So what was the secret? How, as explained in the first part of this blog, did Sir...
Morauta’s masterclass in economic reform: part one
From boom to bust Following independence, the PNG economy fared relatively well. From 1980 to 1994...
Vale Sir Mekere Morauta
It has been my privilege to know personally, work closely with, and occasionally disagree with, the...