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Design of the Solomon Islands Minerals Advisory Centre

The mining sector in Solomon Islands has the potential to contribute much needed fiscal revenue to the state, while creating employment and livelihood opportunities for local communities. However, recent experiences of mining in the archipelago nation have been characterized by environmental degradation and a range of both positive and negative ...

Micro, Small and Medium-sized Enterprises for Inclusive Growth in PNG

Long promoted as a vehicle for inclusive growth in other developing economies, micro, small and medium enterprises (MSMEs) have been placed at the centre of Papua New Guinea’s (PNG) medium-term development strategy. SMEs face a broad and diverse range of challenges when starting or growing a business in PNG, resulting ...

Subnational Payments in PNG’s Extractive Sector

As Papua New Guinea (PNG) works to transition its natural resources into inclusive and sustainable forms of development, the taxes, fees and levies collected from extractive projects provide much-needed revenue to the national government. These ‘resource rents’ help the national government to fund basic services to its citizenry—many of whom ...

The Impact of Mobile Banking in PNG

Papua New Guinea (PNG) has some of the highest unbanked rates in the world. With geographically dispersed communities, low population density, low financial literacy, relatively underdeveloped telecommunication and banking infrastructure, and diverse cultural and language groups, it is estimated that two thirds of PNG’s population do not have reasonable access ...

Preventing and Countering Violent Extremism in Africa: The Role of the Mining Sector

The majority of counter terrorism efforts have been security and intelligence led, with an emphasis on military and kinetic strategies to ‘defeat’ terrorism. Over the past decade in particular, global efforts have also focused on strategies for preventing and countering violent extremism (P/CVE), particularly on the role of international institutions, ...