This volume brings the debates about women’s wealth in the Pacific back to the fore by critically revisiting and engaging with ideas about gender and materiality, value, relationality and the social life and agency of things.

Challenges facing the health system in Papua New Guinea result not just from low expenditure; this paper argues that performance is also constrained by its structure and by cultural factors, and recommends trialling a new approach. If expectations for improved health outcomes, heightened by the bounty of resource development, are to be achieved without substantial...