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Crossborder trade: Indonesia and PNG

8 October 2020

Cross-border trade: Indonesia and PNG

by John Conroy

Buai vendors buying buai from rural wholesale suppliers

27 May 2020

The daily life of a Port Moresby buai vendor

by Linus digim'Rima and Joshua Apa

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

22 March 2019

The informal economy under siege

by Busa Jeremiah Wenogo

Betel nut sellers at work (Credit: Martyn Namorong)

17 March 2019

Perseverance as a buai seller

by Martyn Namorong

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

Gerehu market, Port Moresby (UN Women Papua New Guinea/Kim Eaton/Flickr CC BY-NC-ND 2.0)

17 May 2017

As election looms, PNG political parties should consider supporting informal economy

by Busa Jeremiah Wenogo

Coffee plant (Flickr/Paul Goodman CC BY-NC-ND 2.0)

3 November 2016

Coffee, market economy and informality in late colonial Goroka

by John Conroy

Betelnut sales, Port Moresby, 2009 (Flickr/appie2009 CC BY-NC-ND 2.0)

25 August 2016

Where to with betelnut? Beyond bans and spot fines

by Busa Jeremiah Wenogo

Stall woman (image: Michelle Rooney)

16 June 2016

Women’s economic empowerment: the importance of small market stall vendors in urban Papua New Guinea

by Nayahamui Michelle Rooney

Sarawaged Mountains at dawn (Flickr/Nomad Tales)

11 December 2015

The eclipse of PNG’s Eight Aims and the false dawn of informality

by John Conroy

24 September 2015

Fortnightly links: crises, charts, sinking islands and worms (yes, again)

by Camilla Burkot and Terence Wood

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