Ironies of Organization: Landowners, Land Registration, and Papua New Guinea's Mining and Petroleum Industry

From: Human Organization | Date: April 1, 2007| Author: Golub, Alex | Copyright information

Contemporary policy work in Papua New Guinea portrays the country either in terms of an inflexible tradition to be remedied by liberalization, or a weak state whose disintegrating social institutions must be strengthened by regional neighbors. As an analysis of land registration issues surrounding resource developments shows, rural Papua New Guineans demonstrate a willingness to innovate on past practice that is strikingly modern in its outlook, and the politics of land registration cannot be...

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