scholarly journals Producers' Well-Being and Natural Resource Extraction: The Eaglewood Trade in Papua New Guinea

2017 ◽  
Vol 46 (1) ◽  
pp. 21-43
Author(s):  
Nicolas Gerber ◽  
Anik Bhaduri
Keyword(s):  
Papua New Guinea ◽  
Natural Resource ◽  
New Guinea ◽  
Well Being ◽  
Existence Value ◽  
Natural Resource Extraction ◽  
Consumption Choices ◽  
Production And Consumption ◽  
Stock Depletion ◽  
The Impact

We illustrate how natural resource dependent and isolated communities manage their forest stock. Our model is based on field observations of the Eaglewood trade in Papua New Guinea. Using a dynamic model of household utility maximization and simulations, we analyze the impact of variations in the (monopsonistic) resource price on the households’ consumption choices and their allocation of effort across depletive and nondepletive activities. The stock of forest is embedded directly in the households’ utility function (existence value) and in their (nonseparable) production and consumption functions. We show that poverty (in production assets) does not inevitably lead to stock depletion.

scholarly journals The Macroeconomic Effects of Natural Resource Extraction: Applications to Papua New Guinea

2013 ◽  
Vol 13 (138) ◽  
pp. 1 ◽  
Author(s):  
Suman S Basu ◽  
Jan Gottschalk ◽  
Werner Schule ◽  
Nikhil Vellodi ◽  
Shu-Chun S. Yang ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Papua New Guinea ◽  
Natural Resource ◽  
New Guinea ◽  
Resource Extraction ◽  
Natural Resource Extraction ◽  
Macroeconomic Effects

The Macroeconomic Effects of Natural Resource Extraction: Applications to Papua New Guinea

2013 ◽  
Author(s):  
Suman Sambha Basu ◽  
Jan Gottschalk ◽  
Werner Schule ◽  
Nikhil Vellodi ◽  
Shu-Chun Susan Yang
Keyword(s):  
Papua New Guinea ◽  
Natural Resource ◽  
New Guinea ◽  
Resource Extraction ◽  
Natural Resource Extraction ◽  
Macroeconomic Effects

scholarly journals The Impact of a Filariasis Control Program on Lihir Island, Papua New Guinea

2011 ◽  
Vol 5 (8) ◽  
pp. e1286 ◽  
Author(s):  
Oriol Mitjà ◽  
Raymond Paru ◽  
Russell Hays ◽  
Lysaght Griffin ◽  
Nedley Laban ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Papua New Guinea ◽  
Control Program ◽  
New Guinea ◽  
The Impact

scholarly journals ‘Food is life’: Documenting the politics of food in Melanesia

2015 ◽  
Vol 21 (2) ◽  
pp. 77
Author(s):  
Ceridwen Spark
Keyword(s):  
Gender Roles ◽  
Cultural Values ◽  
Papua New Guinea ◽  
Food Consumption ◽  
New Guinea ◽  
Population Management ◽  
Creative Performance ◽  
The Pacific ◽  
West Papua ◽  
The Impact

In this article, I discuss two recent examples of women’s filmmaking in Melanesia. The documentaries are Tanah Mama (2014), focused on West Papua and Café Niugini (2015), set in Papua New Guinea. Both films explore and represent food in profoundly different ways. Here, I consider their respective depictions of food, demonstrating that Tanah Mama represents food as sustenance while Café Niugini renders food as ‘cuisine’ through the ‘creative performance’ of cookery. Nevertheless, and as I argue, both documentaries reflect the filmmakers’ interest in representing issues associated with food in the Pacific, including the importance of Indigenous access to land, population management, gender roles and the impact of changing cultural values on food consumption and health.

scholarly journals Deep Determinants of Corruption? A Subnational Analysis of Resource Curse Dynamics in American States

2019 ◽  
Vol 73 (1) ◽  
pp. 111-125 ◽  
Author(s):  
Michael Tyburski ◽  
Patrick Egan ◽  
Aaron Schneider
Keyword(s):  
American Literature ◽  
Natural Resource ◽  
Linear Models ◽  
Generalized Method Of Moments ◽  
Resource Curse ◽  
Resource Extraction ◽  
Natural Resource Extraction ◽  
American States ◽  
Determinants Of Corruption ◽  
The Impact

Drawing on comparative resource curse literature and American literature on the determinants of corruption, we argue that the impact of natural resource extraction on corruption outcomes is state-dependent. That is, in environments where corruption is already high, natural resource windfalls allow political actors and economic elites to take advantage of state brokerage, further increasing corruption. However, in previously less-corrupt states, increased natural resource extraction will not induce corruption. We rely on hierarchical linear models to interpret federal corruption convictions data for the fifty American states between 1976 and 2012 and employ generalized method of moments estimators to account for potential endogeneity. The findings are robust to alternative specifications and have implications for the management of new resource extraction opportunities.

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