What is PNG’s role in the APEC community?
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Interviews & Viewpoints | Alan Bollard, Executive Director, APEC Secretariat : Interview from The Report: Papua New Guinea 2018
Articles & Analysis | Business Barometer: PNG CEO Survey from The Report: Papua New Guinea 2018
Papua New Guinea’s chairmanship of APEC in 2018 comes at a time when the nation is still grappling with a foreign exchange shortage and high public debt, as well as persistent problems with law and order. Despite these issues, C-suite executives appear optimistic for 2018, as shown by the more than 100 participants in Oxford Business Group’s...
Articles & Analysis | Diversification to improve PNG infrastructure from The Report: Papua New Guinea 2018
In an effort to reduce dependency on extractive industries, the government has increasingly focused on non-mineral diversification as an economic growth strategy, with an emphasis on domestic industry, tourism and new special economic and industrial zones aimed at attracting foreign investment. Government efforts, including the publication of...
Chapter | Table of Contents from The Report: Papua New Guinea 2018
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Although 2017 was another challenging year for Papua New Guinea, with subdued GDP growth against a backdrop of falling government revenues, cuts to public spending and rising fiscal challenges, economic recovery is gradually gathering steam in 2018. A steady uptick in commodity prices supported export growth and augmented the country’s trade surplus, while agriculture and mining recovered from...