| | Papua New Guinea (PNG) is rich in gold, oil, gas, copper, silver, timber and is home to abundant fisheries. Although it has a population of only 6.2 million, its people are strikingly diverse, organized in small, fragmented social groups and speak over 800 distinct languages. PNG’s economy is highly dualistic consisting of an enclave based formal sector that focuses mainly on large-scale export of natural resources, and an informal sector dominated by the subsistence and semi-subsistence activities of the majority rural population. more | |  | |
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