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The World Bank is working with other donors in the region to help PNG achieve the Millennium Development Goal of Education for All by 2015.
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Some 45 percent of Papua New Guinea’s population enjoys access to electricity but this access is lower in rural areas. Recent assessment in the mining and petroleum sector has identified possible interventions and initiatives to improve the socio-economic opportunities for women in target areas.
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| | | Â | | Â |  | Â | Environment
Many terrestrial ecosystems, especially forests in Papua New Guinea, are subject to increasing resource extraction and are being depleted through commercial forestry operations or cleared for mining or agriculture.
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| | | Â | | Â |  | Â | Health Nutrition & Population
Despite a real increase of about 30 percent in total public expenditure on health between 1996 and 2001, health system performance is declining. Infant mortality fell sharply in the 1970’s, but since then gains have been more modest.
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The Bank’s approach to rural development in PNG has focused on approaches that have proven successful in the past (e.g., the smallholder oil palm sector), while continuing to develop a broad based dialogue on issues of relevance to rural development, including natural resource management issues.
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PNG has an estimated 27,000 kilometers of roads and land transport plays an import role in the country’s economy. Much of the country is mountainous, geologically unstable and subject to high, torrential rainfall. Rapid deterioration of roads is a constant risk and road construction and maintenance is costly.
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The World Bank continues to support youth engagement through activities such as the open space dialogue and the Tingim Yut Kompetisen (development marketplace).
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