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Papua New Guinea : Government, Economy and Society / edited by Stephen Howes and Lekshmi N. Pillai.
- Format:
- Book
- Series:
- Pacific series.
- Pacific Series
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Papua New Guinea--Politics and government--1975-.
- Papua New Guinea.
- Papua New Guinea--Economic conditions.
- Papua New Guinea--Social conditions.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (278 pages)
- Edition:
- First edition.
- Place of Publication:
- Canberra ANU Press 2022
- Canberra, ACT, Australia : Australian National University Press, [2022]
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- Edited by Professor Stephen Howes and Professor Lekshmi N. Pillai, Papua New Guinea: Government, Economy and Society is a must-read for students, policymakers and anyone interested in understanding this complex and fascinating country.
- 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.
- Notes:
- Description based on publisher supplied metadata and other sources.
- Licensed under Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International CC BY-NC-ND 4.0 cc https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/
- Description based on print version record.
- Includes bibliographical references.
- Other Format:
- Print version: Howes, Stephen Papua New Guinea
- ISBN:
- 9781760465032
- 1760465038
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