Paladin Group’s Managing Director David Saul and Director Ian Stewart talk to Business Advantage PNG in this exclusive interview about the challenges they have had in PNG, what they have learned and their future plans.
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In an exclusive interview held at the 2019 Business Advantage Papua New Guinea Investment Conference, Papua New Guinea’s Minister for Commerce and Industry, Wera Mori, tells Business Advantage International’s Publishing Director Andrew Wilkins it’s time for PNG to extend its economic base.
Papua New Guinea might be ‘under-touristed’, but if numbers continue to increase it won’t be that way for long, and that’s great news for the economy. Lisa Smyth reports.
A Papua New Guinean entrepreneur developed an app to sell power on the streets and partnered with the state-owned energy company PNG Power. His product is helping the community have better access to electricity.
The go-ahead for the US$10 billion Papua LNG project is likely to do much to alleviate some of the financial imbalances in the PNG economy, including the lack of availability of foreign exchange and the weakness of the currency. David James investigates.
Papua New Guinea’s Petroleum Minister has announced that the government will honour a gas deal struck with French major Total SA for the US$10 billion Papua LNG project. The project will be the single largest foreign investment in the Pacific country since the advent of the US$19 billion PNG LNG project a decade ago.
In an exclusive interview with Business Advantage PNG, ratings analyst Rebecca Hrvatin, says PNG’s fiscal imbalances will improve—provided the Papua LNG project continues as planned.
What can the Prime Minister and his team do to support a sustained recovery? ANU’s Stephen Howes offers his suggestions.
Acting Managing Director Carolyn Blacklock has resigned from state-owned utility, PNG Power. The announcement comes with the state-owned utility on the cusp of launching a new ‘reform agenda’.
Watch how public debt has grown in Papua New Guinea since 1990, based on central bank statistics.