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Author Bank, Asian Development

Title Building a Dynamic Pacific Economy : Strengthening the Private Sector in Papua New Guinea
Published Manila : Asian Development Bank, 2015

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Description 1 online resource (84 pages)
Series Country Sector and Thematic Assessments
Country Sector and Thematic Assessments
Contents Cover; Contents; Tables, Figures, and Boxes; Abbreviations; Foreword; 1 Overview; Economic Management; Reforming Banks and Capital Markets; The State's Role; Competition; State-Owned Enterprises; Agriculture; Infrastructure; Key Recommendations; 2 Introduction; Development Vision; Private Sector Assessment 2008; 3 Economic Policies to Support Private Sector Growth; 4 Reforming Banking and Capital Markets; Financial Markets; Policy Reforms Promoting Private Sector Growth; 5 The Political Economy; The State's Role; Security and Justice; Gender-Related Barriers to Growth
Encouraging Small and Medium-Sized EnterprisesGovernance; Reforming the Tax System; Commercial Legal Framework; 6 Competition; 7 State-Owned Enterprises Burden the Economy; Wasted Public Resources; Toward Policy Reform; The Kumul Trust Holdings: Unclear Purpose; 8 Agriculture; 9 Infrastructure; Electricity; Roads; References; Tables; 1 Key Recommendations; 2 Private Sector Assessment 2008 Recommendations and Progress as of 30 June 2014; 3 Reform Measures; Figures; 1 Bank Provisioning to Nonperforming Loans, 2010-2014 (%); 2 Banks' Capital Adequacy and Loan-to-Deposit Ratios, 2010-2014 (%)
3 Banks' Return on Assets and Equity, 2010-2014 (%)4 Papua New Guinea State-Owned Enterprise Portfolio Assets, FY 2012 (K6 billion); Boxes; 1 Shortcomings of Tax Incentives; 2 Characteristics of Effective Legislative and Governance Frameworks; 3 International Examples of Failed State-Owned Enterprise Policies Offer Guidance; 4 Tree Crop Production in Papua New Guinea and Household Welfare
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references
Notes Print version record
Subject Economic development -- Papua New Guinea
Free enterprise -- Papua New Guinea
Economic development
Economic policy
Free enterprise
SUBJECT Papua New Guinea -- Economic policy
Subject Papua New Guinea
Form Electronic book
ISBN 9789292549008
9292549006