1st Edition

Papua New Guinea The Struggle for Development

By John Connell Copyright 1997
    372 Pages
    by Routledge

    372 Pages
    by Routledge

    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.

    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

    Biography

    John Connell is Associate Professor at the University of Sydney. He has written several books and many journal articles.