Cities are key to reducing poverty and promoting shared prosperity in Papua New Guinea (PNG). Cities generally are sites for cultivating and fostering the accumulation of multiple forms of capital. In...
This Briefing Note summarizes findings from the World Bank’s research and policy engagements between November 2014 and December 2016 in Port Moresby and Lae, the two largest cities in Papua New Guinea...
This policy note distills work done during 2015 on safety and security in ethnically and socially mixed neighborhoods and informal settlements in Port Moresby, the capital of Papua New Guinea (PNG). The...
Although Papua New Guinea’s (PNG) urban settlements and mixed neighborhoods have a reputation for endemic violence, many local observers report some improvements in urban safety and security over recent...