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Betelnut vendor, Papua New Guinea

11 April 2023

Are workers in the informal sector leaving formal sector workers behind in PNG?

by Kelly Samof

Farmer in a field of potato plants in Papua New Guinea

1 February 2023

Bikpela wok na liklik mani: smallholders’ decisions on cash crops in PNG

by Michael Bourke

19 January 2023

Changes in Papua New Guinea’s fresh food marketplaces

by Timothy Sharp, Mark Busse and Michael Bourke

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

25 October 2022

Latest Port Moresby ban doomed to failure

by Busa Jeremiah Wenogo

A local market near Goroka (P. Mathur-Bioversity International-Flickr)

28 March 2022

The informal economy in development, or a history of thought in PNG

by Ronald J. May

COVID-19 and disability in Indonesia (F. Latief-ILO-Flickr)

3 November 2021

Disability and labour markets in Indonesia

by Laura Caron

Street vendor during COVID-19 in Hanoi, Vietnam (ILO-Flickr)

27 August 2021

Ethnic migrants in Hanoi: hit hard by lockdowns

by Tran Chung Chau and Nicola Nixon

Arthur Lewis at Pasar Skouw: re-reading ‘The Theory of Economic Growth’

14 April 2021

Arthur Lewis at Pasar Skouw: re-reading ‘The Theory of Economic Growth’

by John Conroy

One-third of Pacific businesses doubt they will survive COVID-19

31 March 2021

One-third of Pacific businesses doubt they will survive COVID-19

by Caleb Jarvis

Crowds at the “golden day” at Lumi Station (Desmond Narongou)

23 March 2021

Booming business, absent government in the Sepik

by Desmond Narongou

The informal economy in development

25 January 2021

New book: the informal economy in development

by John Conroy

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

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