| Description |
1 online resource (viii, 262 pages) : illustrations. |
| Series |
Pacific Series
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Pacific series.
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| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references. |
| Contents |
Part 1: Politics and governance. ch.1. Introduction / Stephen Howes and Lekshmi N. Pillai ; ch.2. Elections and politics / Michael Kabuni, Maholopa Laveil, Geejay Milli and Terence Wood ; ch.3. Decentralisation: a political analysis / Stephen Howes, Lawrence Sause and Lhawang Ugyel ; ch.4. Crime and corruption / Grant Walton and Sinclair Dinnen -- Part 2: The economy. ch.5. PNG's economic trajectory: the long view / Stephen Howes, Rohan Fox, Maholopa Laveil, Luke McKenzie, Albert Prabhakar Gudapati and Dek Sum ; ch.6. Have living standards improved in PNG over the last two decades? evidence from demographic and health surveys / Manoj K. Pandey and Stephen Howes -- Part 3: Society. ch.7. Uneven development and its effects: livelihoods and urban and rural spaces in Papua New Guinea / John Cox, Grant Walton, Joshua Goa and Dunstan Lawihin ; ch.8. Communication, information and the media / Amanda H. A. Watson. |
| Summary |
Papua New Guinea (PNG), a nation now of almost nine million people, continues to evolve and adapt. While there is no shortage of recent data and research on PNG, the two most recent social science volumes on the country were both written more than a decade ago. Since then, much has changed and much has been learnt. What has been missing is a volume that brings together the most recent research and reports on the most recent data. Papua New Guinea: Government, Economy and Society fills that gap. Written by experts at the University of Papua New Guinea and The Australian National University among others, this book provides up-to-date surveys of critical policy issues for PNG across a range of fields, from elections and politics, decentralisation, and crime and corruption, to PNG's economic trajectory and household living standards, to uneven development, communication and the media. The volume's authors provide an overview of the data collected and research undertaken in these various fields in an engaging and accessible way. |
| Note |
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| Local Note |
JSTOR Books at JSTOR Open Access |
| Added Author |
Australian National University Press, publisher.
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| Other Form: |
Print version: Papua New Guinea: government, economy and society Canberra, ACT, Australia : Australian National University Press, 2021 9781760465025 |
| ISBN |
9781760465032 (electronic book) |
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1760465038 (electronic book) |
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9781760465025 (paperback) |
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