Papua New Guinea’s Treasurer Don Poyle has called for more public-private partnerships to drive the PNG economy. As the O’Neill government prepares to create an umbrella trust to oversee State-Owned Enterprises and their partnerships with private enterprise, Rowan Callick lays out the test for their success.
Small business operators will be the beneficiaries of an online registration process, which they can use to register new businesses and update information.
Papua New Guinea’s Treasurer Don Polye gave a comprehensive update on the nation’s economic outlook last week. We asked analysts for their reaction.
Ernie Gangloff is now Managing Director of Gangloff Consulting after retiring as a partner with Deloitte Touche Tohamtsu where he worked in the areas of Risk and Consulting Services. He is currently assisting Sir Brown Bai with the Lihir Mine Agreement Review.
The Pacific rarely attracts attention from The Economist so two articles in as many weeks is noteworthy.
For the first time since Fiji’s 2006 coup, the annual Australia-Fiji Business Forum was held in Australia earlier this week.
Christine Iauve, a vegetable farmer from Magautou village, used to keep her hard-earned cash in a safe. Now she, and hundreds of others in rural and remote areas, are getting access to banking services, and setting ambitious goals.
With a stable of six and soon to be seven strategically located lodges, Trans Niugini Tours (TNT) is expanding its tourism reach in Papua New Guinea.
The Lae Chamber of Commerce (LCCI) says the Rudd–O’Neill asylum seeker deal ‘will be positive for business’, according to chamber president, Alan McLay.
More than 70 business delegates representing 53 Papua New Guinea companies from various industries are participating in a trade show in the Solomon Islands this week.