Papua New Guinea: Government, Economy and Society

280 Pages·2022·7.308 MB·English

by  Stephen Howes, Lekshmi N. Pillai

PAPUA NEW GUINEA
GOVERNMENT, ECONOMY AND SOCIETY

PAPUA NEW GUINEA
GOVERNMENT, ECONOMY AND SOCIETY
EDITED BY STEPHEN HOWES
AND LEKSHMI N. PILLAI
PACIFIC SERIES

To all involved in the UPNG School of Business
and Public Policy – ANU Crawford School
of Public Policy partnership.
Published by ANU Press
The Australian National University
Canberra ACT 2600
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ISBN (print): 9781760465025
ISBN (online): 9781760465032
WorldCat (print): 1297067968
WorldCat (online): 1297067837
DOI: 10.22459/PNG.2022
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Contents
Acronyms . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ix
List of figures . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . xi
List of tables . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . xv
1 . Introduction . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1
Stephen Howes and Lekshmi N. Pillai
Part I: Politics and Governance
2 . Elections and politics . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 17
Michael Kabuni, Maholopa Laveil, Geejay Milli and Terence Wood
3 . Decentralisation: A political analysis . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 57
Stephen Howes, Lawrence Sause and Lhawang Ugyel
4 . Crime and corruption . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 87
Grant W. Walton and Sinclair Dinnen
Part II: The Economy
5 . PNG’s economic trajectory: The long view . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 125
Stephen Howes, Rohan Fox, Maholopa Laveil, Luke McKenzie,
Albert Prabhakar Gudapati and Dek Sum
6 . Have living standards improved in PNG over the last two
decades? Evidence from Demographic and Health Surveys . . . 163
Manoj K. Pandey and Stephen Howes
Part III: Society
7 . Uneven development and its effects: Livelihoods and urban
and rural spaces in Papua New Guinea . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 193
John Cox, Grant W. Walton, Joshua Goa and Dunstan Lawihin
8 . Communication, information and the media . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 223
Amanda H. A. Watson
Contributors . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 261