As Papua New Guinea celebrates its 50th anniversary, Business Advantage PNG takes a look at some of the key economic events in its history and key players in business and commerce that have played an important role in its development.
Economy & Investment
Papua New Guinea’s Mineral Resources Development Company is one of the country’s largest institutional investors, with more than K12 billion in assets under management. Its Chief Investment Officer and Deputy CEO John Tuaim revealed five areas where more investment is needed at this month’s 2025 Business Advantage PNG Investment Conference.
Speakers at this year’s 2025 Business Advantage PNG Investment Conference touched on a range of key themes, including the need to strengthen the country’s institutions and its ‘human capacity’, and provided updates on key projects such as PNG Power’s turnaround plan, major resources projects and the strategies of leading banks and financial institutions.
Richard Maru, Papua New Guinea’s Minister for International Trade and Investment, outlined the Marape-Rosso government’s wide-ranging plans to transform the economy in the opening speech at the 2025 Business Advantage PNG Investment Conference.
Papua New Guinea’s major banks tell Business Advantage PNG they are now seeing a dramatic fall in foreign exchange backlogs. What’s driving this improved forex availability – and is a permanent solution to this critical business impediment at hand?
Special economic zones, green finance, privatisations and more: Business Advantage PNG lists five key focus areas to look out for in Papua New Guinea’s investment space this year.
Business leaders are not quite ready to call it, but there are promising signs as Papua New Guinea celebrates its 50th anniversary of independence. Business Advantage PNG spoke with the country’s top CEOs to learn more about current business conditions.
Since 2012, the data collected by the PNG 100 CEO Survey has revealed trends in business confidence among Papua New Guinea business leaders. So, how confident are businesses in 2025?
LNG, forex and fuel supply remain in focus, while new listings and privatisation are on the agenda. Business Advantage PNG looks to the year ahead and considers what Papua New Guinea-focused businesses can expect in the coming 12 months.
In a repeat of last year, the 2025 Budget delivered by Papua New Guinea Treasurer Ian Ling-Stuckey outlines record spending and revenue. It also contains a few policy surprises, including a proposed reduction to the company tax rate paid by commercial banks as well as easing of a key paperwork requirement for obtaining foreign exchange.