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This 2014 Article IV Consultation highlights that Papua New Guinea's economy is experiencing an important transition, as new liquefied natural gas (LNG) production and exports commence. With LNG production and exports now starting, resource sector growth is projected to surge in 2015, but spillovers to the rest of the economy may be more limited. Inflation has moderated from its peaks during the construction boom and is likely to remain reasonably low given the global outlook for commodity prices. The ongoing economic transition calls for adjustment of macroeconomic policies to safeguard macro

In recent years, the IMF has released a growing number of reports and other documents covering economic and financial developments and trends in member countries. Each report, prepared by a staff team after discussions with government officials, is published at the option of the member country

The introduction of village courts in Papua New Guinea in 1975
was an ambitious experiment in providing semi-formal legal access to the
country's overwhelmingly rural population. Nearly 50 years later, the
enthusiastic adoption of these courts has had a number of ramifications, some of
them unanticipated. Arguably, the village courts have developed and are working
exactly as they were supposed to do, adapted by local communities to modes and
styles consistent with their own dispute management sensibilities. But with
little in the way of state oversight or support, most village courts have
become, of necessity, nearly autonomous. Village courts have also become the
blueprint for other modes of dispute management. They overlap with other sources
of authority, so the line between what does and does not constitute a
'court' is now indistinct in many parts of the country. Rather than casting
this issue as a problem for legal development, the contributors to Grassroots
Law in Papua New Guineaask how, under conditions of state withdrawal, people
seek to retain an understanding of law that holds out some promise of either
keeping the attention of the state or reproducing the state's authority.

Intro -- Preface - Christine Stewart -- Acknowledgements -- Abbreviations and Acronyms -- Prologue: The Place of Papua New Guinea in Contours of Gender Violence - Margaret Jolly -- Introduction-Engendering Violence in Papua New Guinea: Persons, Power and Perilous Transformations - Margaret Jolly -- 1. Black and Blue: Shades of Violence in West New Britain, PNG - Naomi McPherson -- 2. Troubled Masculinities and Gender Violence in Melanesia - Laura Zimmer-Tamakoshi -- 3. Engendered Violence and Witch-killing in Simbu - Philip Gibbs -- 4. Becoming Mary: Marian Devotion as a Solution to Gender-based Violence in Urban PNG - Anna-Karina Hermkens -- 5. Engendering Violence in the Papua New Guinea Courts: Sentencing in Rape Trials - Jean G. Zorn -- 6. Conversations with Convicted Rapists - Fiona Hukula -- 7. 'Crime to be a Woman?': Engendering Violence against Female Sex Workers in Port Moresby, Papua New Guinea - Christine Stewart -- 8. Gender Violence in Melanesia and the Problem of Millennium Development Goal No. 3 - Martha Macintyre -- Contributors -- Index.

Australians in Papua New Guinea provides a history of the late Australian years in Papua New Guinea through the eyes of 13 Australians and four Papua New Guineans by presenting the experiences of Australians who went to work in Papua New Guinea (PNG) over several decades before the 1970s. This extraordinary book balances expatriates with indigenous Papua New Guineans, balances gender, and pioneers an innovative combination of written reminiscences and interviews that reveal the impact of Australian colonial policy on pre-indendence PNG. It follows medical practitioners Michael Alpers, Ken Clez

This collection builds on previous works on gender violence in the Pacific, but goes beyond some previous approaches to 'domestic violence' or 'violence

This paper assesses the presence of opportunistic electoral budget cycles in Papua New Guinea. Using quarterly time series data, a clear pattern emerges of pre-election manipulations of fiscal policy by incumbent governments, mainly in the form of increased development spending and overall primary expenditure, followed in some cases by retrenchment in post-election periods. These findings are consistent with the predictions of rational opportunistic political business cycle theory. It is noteworthy that revenue was not statistically significantly related to elections, either in the pre- or pos

Papua New Guinea (PNG), a nation of now 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. Edited by Professor Stephen Howes and Professor Lekshmi N. Pillai, Papua New Guinea: Government, Economy and Societyis a must-read for students, policymakers and anyone interested in understanding this complex and fascinating country.

Intro -- ANTHROPOLOGY OF MINING IN PAPUA NEW GUINEA GREENFIELDS -- ANTHROPOLOGY OF MINING IN PAPUA NEW GUINEA GREENFIELDS -- LIBRARY OF CONGRESS CATALOGING-IN-PUBLICATION DATA -- CONTENTS -- PREFACE -- INTRODUCTION -- WHERE THE BOOK IS COMING FROM -- Significance of Mining -- AIMS OF THE BOOK -- Lay Out of the Book -- Chapter One -- Chapter Two -- Chapter Three -- Chapter Four -- Chapter Five -- Chapter Six -- Chapter Seven -- Chapter Eight -- Chapter Nine -- Chapter Ten -- CONCLUSION -- Chapter 1: ANTROPOLOGY OF MINING IN PAPUA NEW GUINEA GREENFIELDS -- INTRODUCTION -- ANTHROPOLOGY OF MINING -- ANTHROPOLOGICAL THEMES -- GREENFIELD MINES - WHAT ARE THEY? -- PNG GREENFIELD MINES -- THE BAIRD 'GREENFIELD OPERATIONS' TYPOLOGY -- New Management Philosophy -- New Location -- New Workforce -- New and Innovative Work Organisations -- Progressive Worker Relations -- CONCLUSION -- Chapter 2: PAPUA NEW GUINEANS AND MINING: A HISTORICAL PERSPECTIVE -- INTRODUCTION -- ADVENTURE, OPPORTUNITIES AND VIOLENCE -- LABOR, DESERTION AND DISSATISFACTION -- EAGERNESS, PRESSURE AND RESENTMENT -- DISGRUNTLEMENT AND ORGANIZATIONS OF WORKERS -- CONCLUSION -- Chapter 3: SHAPING OF GREENFIELD MINING WORKFORCES -- INTRODUCTION -- MINING AND RECRUITMENT -- MINING SND RECRUITMENT IN DEVELOPING COUNTRIES -- RECRUITMENT AND EMPLOYMENT IN PNG GREENFIELD MINES -- Employment Issues -- Preferential Employment Policy -- PASSIVE ACKNOWLEDGEMENT OF LOCALISED RECRUITMENT STRATEGY OF GREENFIELD MINES -- STUDY ON MNMCS' RECRUITMENT AND EMPLOYMENT PRACTICES -- RESULTS -- Statement on Recruitment and Selection -- Recruitment and Selection Criteria -- Management of Recruitment and Selection Expectations -- Factors Associated with Locals -- Perceptions on Preferential Employment Policy -- CONCLUSION -- Chapter 4: A TRIBAL WORKFORCE IN A GREENFIELD MINE -- INTRODUCTION

That large-scale capital drives inequality in states like Papua New Guinea is clear enough; how it does so is less clear. This edited collection presents studies of the local contexts of capital-intensive projects in the mining, oil and gas, and agro-industry sectors in rural and semi-rural parts of Papua New Guinea; it asks what is involved when large-scale capital and its agents begin to become significant nodes in hitherto more local social networks. Its contributors describe the processes initiated by the (planned) presence of extractive industries that tend to reinforce already existing inequalities, or to create and socially entrench novel inequalities. The studies largely focus on the beginnings of such transformations, when hopes for social improvement are highest and economic inequalities still incipient. They show how those hopes, and the encompassing socio-political transformations characteristic of this phase, act to produce far-reaching impacts on ways of life, setting precedents for and embedding the social distribution of gains and losses. The chapters address a range of settings: the PNG Liquid Natural Gas pipeline; newly established eucalyptus and oil palm plantations; a planned copper-gold mine; and one in which rumours of development diffuse through a rural social network as yet unaffected by any actual or planned capital investments. The analyses all demonstrate that questions around land, leadership and information are central to the current and future social profile of local inequality in all its facets.