Papua New Guinea: The Struggle for Development

by John Connell

Overview

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.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780415054010
Publisher:	Taylor & Francis
Publication date:	10/09/1997
Series:	Routledge Studies in the Growth Economies of Asia
Pages:	372
Product dimensions:	6.12(w) x 9.19(h) x (d)

About the Author

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

Table of Contents

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