Description
Papua New Guinea is the first book to explore the economic development of this socially complex, rapidly changing nation. Subjects discussed include:
* rapid economic growth and political conflict
* civil war on the island of Bougainville
* population growth and urbanisation
* mining: gold, copper and environmental conflicts
* uneven development and social divisions.
Table of Contents
1 Introduction: Papua New Guinea in the international economy 2 The constraints of late development 3 Subsistence and survival 4 An agricultural economy? 5 Fish, forests and sustainable development 6 Mining: the source of economic growth 7 Mobile Melanesians? Population growth and migration 8 Urbanisation, urban life and the urban economy 9 Uneven development 10 The political economy of development 11 Conclusion: neither growth nor development
