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Stephanie Lusby

Discussion paper

The formal, the informal, and the precarious: making a living in urban Papua New Guinea


Overview: For many Papua New Guineans, the dominant accounts of ‘the economy’ – contained within development reports, government documents and the media – do not adequately reflect their experiences of making a living. Large-scale resource extraction, the private sector, export cash cropping and wage employment have dominated these accounts. Meanwhile, the broader economic picture has...

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