In this paper, disaggregated maps of rural poverty in Papua New Guinea are created by combining i... more In this paper, disaggregated maps of rural poverty in Papua New Guinea are created by combining information from a 1996 Household Survey with data from the 2000 Census, and from resource and agricultural mapping databases with national coverage. Predicted poverty rates are presented at Provincial, District and Local Level Government (LLG) level. Predicted poverty is highest in Sandaun Province. Existing national grants to provinces appear to be unrelated to poverty status. However, the more revealing feature of the results is the high level of within-province heterogeneity. Hence, public spending interventions that try to target poor provinces are likely to miss large numbers of poor people in other provinces, while also benefiting the non-poor in the areas selected for interventions.
Policy Making and Implementation: Studies from Papua New Guinea, 2009
which is the standardized difference in surface air pressure between Darwin and Tahiti and is the... more which is the standardized difference in surface air pressure between Darwin and Tahiti and is the oldest and simplest measure of the El Niño-Southern Oscillation (ENSO) phenomenon in the Pacific, fell from +12 to-25. This is the most spectacular fall in the SOI in the post-1950 history of ENSO events. In Papua New Guinea, usually one of the wettest and cloudiest places on the globe, rainfall declined across much of the country. Crops withered and died, local sources of drinking water dried up, and bushfires burned from the coast to the crests of the main mountain ranges, destroying economic trees, sago stands and dwellings. Above 2000 metres altitude, night time temperatures repeatedly fell below zero. By October 1997 a partial assessment estimated that 150,000 people were eating 'famine' foods. By December, this estimate, based on a second nationwide assessment, had risen to 260,000. A further 980,000 people were assessed to be eating poor quality food in reduced quantities. Many people were forced to walk for hours to collect drinking water of questionable quality. Death rates in isolated places almost certainly increased, many schools closed, many health centres were not staffed and had no medical supplies anyway. In some centres town water supplies were threatened. The hydroelectric station at Sirinumu was forced to stop generating (in order to conserve drinking water in the dam) causing serious power failures in Port Moresby. The Ok Tedi mine closed for seven months because the Fly River became un-navigable and the Porgera mine closed for six weeks through lack of water for processing, resulting in a severe loss of hard currency to the Papua New Guinea economy.
Rose, C.J. (1980). Optimum replanting stage for two varieties of pit-pit (Setaria palmifolia) in ... more Rose, C.J. (1980). Optimum replanting stage for two varieties of pit-pit (Setaria palmifolia) in the highlands of Papua New Guinea.
This project had its beginnings with the former PNG Minister for National Planning (Honourable Mo... more This project had its beginnings with the former PNG Minister for National Planning (Honourable Moi Avei) who wanted to identify the most disadvantaged districts in PNG. He also recognised the need for a reference book that could assist the rural development activities of international donors, non-government organisations, politicians and officials from all levels of government. Staff from a number of PNG institutions have contributed to this handbook through planning workshops and consultations. They include the former Secretary of the Department of National Planning and Monitoring (Camillus Midire) and other staff (
ABSTRACT This paper brings together some of the main conclusions from the other papers in the col... more ABSTRACT This paper brings together some of the main conclusions from the other papers in the collection. The debate about 'famine relief is re-examined in the context of changing attitudes, and it is unlikely that the over-reaction of 1972 would be repeated; indeed, new ...
PNG is a information-rich country in that there are a number of important databases that relate t... more PNG is a information-rich country in that there are a number of important databases that relate to agriculture, forestry and development. The most important are the PNG Resource Information System (PNGRIS), the Mapping Agriculture Sustems of PNG (MASP) and the PNG version of BioRap (Rapid Assessment of Biodiversity for PNG. These databases and subsidiary databases are reviewed in this paper and their sources, structures and information content are described.
In the triad of great Pacific food plants, taro, sweet potato and yam, the taro holds a place of ... more In the triad of great Pacific food plants, taro, sweet potato and yam, the taro holds a place of particular significance. One of the most ancient cultivated plants in the Indo-Pacific region, Colocasia became associated with garden magic and with the rituals of the cycle of procreation and the perpetuation of life throughout Polynesia and Melanesia. 1 It is perhaps, therefore, not surprising that as the old Pacific cultures disappear and are replaced by the new, the dominance of the taro and the techniques and practices which enabled its cultivation far from the humid tropical environment of Asia should also decline and disappear.
198 become more fact-like by announcing a lack of interest in the theoretical entanglements of et... more 198 become more fact-like by announcing a lack of interest in the theoretical entanglements of ethnographic fact" (277). Even so, law and anthropology share and borrow ideas, a process which can lead to the "swallowing and digesting" of anthropology (278).
In January 2014, the Papua New Guinea (PNG)
National Statistical Office (NSO) published the resul... more In January 2014, the Papua New Guinea (PNG) National Statistical Office (NSO) published the results of the 2011 national census (NSO 2014b). Preliminary results were published in November 2013. This In Brief investigates the quality of the 2011 census by looking at the rates of population change between the 2000 and 2011 censuses in local level government areas (LLGAs).
In this paper, disaggregated maps of rural poverty in Papua New Guinea are created by combining i... more In this paper, disaggregated maps of rural poverty in Papua New Guinea are created by combining information from a 1996 Household Survey with data from the 2000 Census, and from resource and agricultural mapping databases with national coverage. Predicted poverty rates are presented at Provincial, District and Local Level Government (LLG) level. Predicted poverty is highest in Sandaun Province. Existing national grants to provinces appear to be unrelated to poverty status. However, the more revealing feature of the results is the high level of within-province heterogeneity. Hence, public spending interventions that try to target poor provinces are likely to miss large numbers of poor people in other provinces, while also benefiting the non-poor in the areas selected for interventions.
Policy Making and Implementation: Studies from Papua New Guinea, 2009
which is the standardized difference in surface air pressure between Darwin and Tahiti and is the... more which is the standardized difference in surface air pressure between Darwin and Tahiti and is the oldest and simplest measure of the El Niño-Southern Oscillation (ENSO) phenomenon in the Pacific, fell from +12 to-25. This is the most spectacular fall in the SOI in the post-1950 history of ENSO events. In Papua New Guinea, usually one of the wettest and cloudiest places on the globe, rainfall declined across much of the country. Crops withered and died, local sources of drinking water dried up, and bushfires burned from the coast to the crests of the main mountain ranges, destroying economic trees, sago stands and dwellings. Above 2000 metres altitude, night time temperatures repeatedly fell below zero. By October 1997 a partial assessment estimated that 150,000 people were eating 'famine' foods. By December, this estimate, based on a second nationwide assessment, had risen to 260,000. A further 980,000 people were assessed to be eating poor quality food in reduced quantities. Many people were forced to walk for hours to collect drinking water of questionable quality. Death rates in isolated places almost certainly increased, many schools closed, many health centres were not staffed and had no medical supplies anyway. In some centres town water supplies were threatened. The hydroelectric station at Sirinumu was forced to stop generating (in order to conserve drinking water in the dam) causing serious power failures in Port Moresby. The Ok Tedi mine closed for seven months because the Fly River became un-navigable and the Porgera mine closed for six weeks through lack of water for processing, resulting in a severe loss of hard currency to the Papua New Guinea economy.
Rose, C.J. (1980). Optimum replanting stage for two varieties of pit-pit (Setaria palmifolia) in ... more Rose, C.J. (1980). Optimum replanting stage for two varieties of pit-pit (Setaria palmifolia) in the highlands of Papua New Guinea.
This project had its beginnings with the former PNG Minister for National Planning (Honourable Mo... more This project had its beginnings with the former PNG Minister for National Planning (Honourable Moi Avei) who wanted to identify the most disadvantaged districts in PNG. He also recognised the need for a reference book that could assist the rural development activities of international donors, non-government organisations, politicians and officials from all levels of government. Staff from a number of PNG institutions have contributed to this handbook through planning workshops and consultations. They include the former Secretary of the Department of National Planning and Monitoring (Camillus Midire) and other staff (
ABSTRACT This paper brings together some of the main conclusions from the other papers in the col... more ABSTRACT This paper brings together some of the main conclusions from the other papers in the collection. The debate about 'famine relief is re-examined in the context of changing attitudes, and it is unlikely that the over-reaction of 1972 would be repeated; indeed, new ...
PNG is a information-rich country in that there are a number of important databases that relate t... more PNG is a information-rich country in that there are a number of important databases that relate to agriculture, forestry and development. The most important are the PNG Resource Information System (PNGRIS), the Mapping Agriculture Sustems of PNG (MASP) and the PNG version of BioRap (Rapid Assessment of Biodiversity for PNG. These databases and subsidiary databases are reviewed in this paper and their sources, structures and information content are described.
In the triad of great Pacific food plants, taro, sweet potato and yam, the taro holds a place of ... more In the triad of great Pacific food plants, taro, sweet potato and yam, the taro holds a place of particular significance. One of the most ancient cultivated plants in the Indo-Pacific region, Colocasia became associated with garden magic and with the rituals of the cycle of procreation and the perpetuation of life throughout Polynesia and Melanesia. 1 It is perhaps, therefore, not surprising that as the old Pacific cultures disappear and are replaced by the new, the dominance of the taro and the techniques and practices which enabled its cultivation far from the humid tropical environment of Asia should also decline and disappear.
198 become more fact-like by announcing a lack of interest in the theoretical entanglements of et... more 198 become more fact-like by announcing a lack of interest in the theoretical entanglements of ethnographic fact" (277). Even so, law and anthropology share and borrow ideas, a process which can lead to the "swallowing and digesting" of anthropology (278).
In January 2014, the Papua New Guinea (PNG)
National Statistical Office (NSO) published the resul... more In January 2014, the Papua New Guinea (PNG) National Statistical Office (NSO) published the results of the 2011 national census (NSO 2014b). Preliminary results were published in November 2013. This In Brief investigates the quality of the 2011 census by looking at the rates of population change between the 2000 and 2011 censuses in local level government areas (LLGAs).
A list of archival material associated with GAV Stanley held in the New Guinea Collection, UPNG L... more A list of archival material associated with GAV Stanley held in the New Guinea Collection, UPNG Library, Port Moresby, Papua New Guinea
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National Statistical Office (NSO) published the results
of the 2011 national census (NSO 2014b). Preliminary
results were published in November 2013. This In Brief
investigates the quality of the 2011 census by looking
at the rates of population change between the 2000
and 2011 censuses in local level government areas
(LLGAs).
National Statistical Office (NSO) published the results
of the 2011 national census (NSO 2014b). Preliminary
results were published in November 2013. This In Brief
investigates the quality of the 2011 census by looking
at the rates of population change between the 2000
and 2011 censuses in local level government areas
(LLGAs).