Unions under Economic Development: Private Sector Unions in Papua New Guinea

1992 ◽  
pp. 178
Author(s):  
Donald Denoon ◽  
Michael Hess
Keyword(s):  
Economic Development ◽  
Private Sector ◽  
Papua New Guinea ◽  
New Guinea

scholarly journals Linking precolonial institutions with ethnic fractionalisation: what are we measuring?

2019 ◽  
Vol 15 (5) ◽  
pp. 811-826
Author(s):  
Shaun Larcom
Keyword(s):  
Economic Development ◽  
Papua New Guinea ◽  
Empirical Work ◽  
New Guinea ◽  
Comparative Case Study ◽  
The Pacific ◽  
Conceptual Explanation ◽  
Two Measures ◽  
Ethnic Fractionalisation

AbstractThis paper highlights a link between measures for precolonial institutions and ethnic fractionalisation in postcolonial countries. A conceptual explanation is provided for why countries that were more politically centralised in precolonial times should be less ethnically fractionalised in current times. This result is confirmed for a sample of postcolonial countries in Africa, Asia and the Pacific. This is followed by a comparative case study in the South Pacific countries of Papua New Guinea, Tonga and Samoa. It is hoped that these results will lead to further empirical work focused at delving deeper into the link between these two measures to better understand what they are actually measuring, and why both are so closely related to economic development.

The Chinese of Papua New Guinea: From Settlers to Sojourners

1997 ◽  
Vol 6 (3-4) ◽  
pp. 317-341 ◽  
Author(s):  
Christine Inglis
Keyword(s):  
Twentieth Century ◽  
Economic Development ◽  
Papua New Guinea ◽  
Chinese Population ◽  
New Guinea ◽  
Chinese Diaspora ◽  
Post Colonial ◽  
Chinese Case ◽  
Chinese Migration ◽  
International Investors

The renewed interest in diaspora populations in this age of globalization has inevitably led to a re-examination of the Chinese diaspora which, especially in Southeast Asia, has achieved prominence through its association with the ëAsian economic miracle.í This article examines the contemporary transformation of the Papua New Guinea part of this Chinese diaspora from a long settled, homogeneous community into a highly segmented and fragmented sojourner population. Integral to this process has been the intersection of post-colonial nationalism with the emergence of new opportunities for economic development attracting Asian and other international investors. The new sojourner Chinese population differs in significant respects from the sojourner populations associated with much nineteenth and early twentieth century Chinese migration. A particular feature which emerges from the exploration of the variant patterns of Chinese migration and settlement in Papua New Guinea is the need to re-examine the nature of ìChineseî identity and frequent assumptions about the characteristics of Chinese diaspora populations. The Papua New Guinea Chinese case highlights the diversity in the way the Chinese identities related to the concept of a ëhomelandí as well as the very different ways in which segments of the same diaspora group relate to each other and to Chinese elsewhere.

Papua New Guinea: Employment, Wages, and Economic Development

2001 ◽  
Vol 74 (2) ◽  
pp. 293
Author(s):  
Jim Hess ◽  
Theodore Levantis
Keyword(s):  
Economic Development ◽  
Papua New Guinea ◽  
New Guinea
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