Development Policy Centre Discussion Paper No. 4
June 2011
This paper measures the extent to which both donor finance and resource revenues have contributed to higher rates of expenditure in key development sectors of the PNG economy-social services (including health and education) and infrastructure, between 1975 and 2010. Estimated elasticities are then compared against a hypothetical revenue scenario to assess the potential contribution that post-2014 LNG revenue inflows may have on increasing the financing available to these sectors.
Batten, A. 2011, ‘Aid and oil in Papua New Guinea: implications for the financing of service delivery’, Discussion Paper No. 4, Development Policy Centre, Crawford School of Public Policy, Australian National University, Canberra.