You can’t enhance human development when 87% of the population does not have power and transport mainly consists of walking
, and the solutions will take time. This much has to be acknowledged and a serious conversation is needed on what role Australia can and should play in PNG’s development.for PNG: promoting effective governance, enabling economic growth, and enhancing human development.
We should not be spending 27% of the budget on “promoting effective governance”. By now, PNG politicians and departments are fully aware of what effective governance is and how to implement it. Whether they choose to or not is a different matter. What is the point of education if there are no jobs? How do you improve health outcomes without power, water and transport? This does not mean we should remove current health initiatives, but we need to think more long term.I am not talking about China’s foreign aid – that is more complicated and political – but its domestic development model.
sounds like a lot, but it isn’t. It is the equivalent of 0.77% of the cash deficit projected in the federal budget for 2022-23 – what macroeconomists might consider a rounding error. The six-month fuel excise cut last year cost the equivalent of a decade of the current aid flowing to PNG.
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