A rare aid success story has brought riches to a hardscrabble corner of the Pacific. Will it last?
- Written by Gordon Peake, Adjunct lecturer, School of Advanced International Studies (SAIS), Johns Hopkins University
There is so much money sloshing around these days in Bougainville, an autonomous region of Papua New Guinea, the stores are running short of goods and some locals are partying until dawn.
The region’s economy is buoyant thanks in part to good fortune – record high prices for cocoa – and a largely unknown Australian and New...
