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Elections in Papua New Guinea’s dysfunctional democracy

2016 for Papua New Guinea (PNG) was both politically turbulent and economically stressful with government revenues and currency falling, but inflation and deficit rising. The nationwide election in June-July 2017 will be a major measure of the political impact of the government’s critics, and the sustainability of Prime Minister Peter O’Neill’s bankrolling tactics. In May […]

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