Publication: Papua New Guinea Country Economic Memorandum: Pathways to Faster and More Inclusive Growth

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2023-07-13
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2023-07-13
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The Country Economic Memorandum (CEM) focuses on long-term growth, outlining the challenges Papua New Guinea (PNG) faces to achieve sufficient economic growth to expand the incomes of its rapidly growing population as well as what is required for PNG to make the transition to a higher, more stable, and more inclusive growth path. PNG’s modest headline economic growth has translated into limited per capita income growth in the past four decades. While the economy expanded by 3.2 percent on average during 1980-2021, per capita gross domestic product (GDP) recorded an average annual growth rate of only 0.9 percent. Moreover, the gap between PNG’s per capita income level and those of its peer countries has widened. Despite being at a similar level of development in the 1970s and having enormous natural wealth, PNG’s income level is diverging away from the East Asia and Pacific (EAP) region. This calls for a renewed policy focus on boosting economic growth, by addressing PNG’s excessive macroeconomic volatility, low productivity growth, and high reliance on natural capital as opposed to human and physical capital.
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World Bank. 2023. Papua New Guinea Country Economic Memorandum: Pathways to Faster and More Inclusive Growth. © Washington, DC: World Bank. http://hdl.handle.net/10986/39995 License: CC BY-NC 3.0 IGO.
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