Fifty years on, PNG's founding economic promise remains unmet
In 1972, as Papua New Guinea prepared for self-government, its first Chief Minister Michael Somare tabled a document that would become the moral compass of the new state’s economic policy. The Eight Point Plan promised something rare among newly independent states: development on Papua New Guinea’s own terms, driven by its own people rather than dictated by foreign capital. It called for local…
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