New Guinea

New Guinea (Tok Pisin: Niugini; Hiri Motu: Niu Gini; Indonesian: Papua, historically Irian) is the world's second-largest island and, with an area of 785,753 km2 (303,381 sq mi), the largest island in the Southern Hemisphere. Located in Melanesia in the southwestern Pacific Ocean, it is separated by the 150-kilometre (81 nmi; 93 mi) wide Torres Strait from the Australian continent. Numerous smaller islands are located to the west and east. The eastern half of the island is the major land mass of the independent state of Papua New Guinea. The western half, known as Western New Guinea or West Papua, …

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Fraser Institute · 17 December 2024 English

The Human Freedom Index 2024 When people are freer, they are allowed to make more of their own choices. Governments can either prevent individual choice by limiting what people are …

▲ 5 Brazil 7.62 6.56 7.18 ▲ 0.30 71 ▲ 2 Papua New Guinea 7.99 6.02 7.17 ▲ 0.27 72 ▼ 8 Bosnia and Herzegovina 5.40 136 Panama 8.27 48 7.62 23 8.00 39 Papua New Guinea 7.99 62 6.02 108 7.17 71 Paraguay 7.43 75 6.98 Zealand Australia Fiji Papua New Guinea 1. 2. 3. 4. New Zealand Fiji Papua New Guinea Australia MOST FREE LEAST


APF: Asia Pacific Foundation of Canada · 14 November 2024 English

It also analyzes the state of informality and digitalization in encouraged the development of helpful e-government APEC, presents best practices and case studies where initiatives to reduce complexity and improve …

33.4% A 2021 survey of 11 cities around Papua New Guinea 33.3% the world revealed that during Mexico 31 Federation 40 The Philippines Brunei Darussalm Papua New Guinea 30 Mexico Malaysia Republic of Korea 20 Chile Russian Federation 40 Brunei Darussalm Papua New Guinea Mexico Republic of 30 Malaysia Korea 20 Indonesia populations are unbanked. For example, in Papua New Guinea where A 10 percent annual increase 75 percent com/outlook/dmo/fintech/digital-payments/papua-new-guinea https://worldpay.globalpaymentsreport.com/en


ULCC: Uniform Law Conference of Canada · 7 November 2024 English

to believe that if the founding members could see how the Participation in these social events facilitates the organization has evolved over the years, they would be formation of connections …

raised in the United States, Canada and Papua New Guinea. He attended the University of Regina and Université


IISD: International Institute for Sustainable Development · 21 October 2024 English

While IISD's reputation as a convenor, a trusted thought leader, and a go-to source on key issues within the sustainable development field is stronger than ever, the work happening outside …

implementation with members, including Papua New Guinea and Senegal, who are among a handful of countries


Fraser Institute · 16 October 2024 English

The annual index published in Economic Freedom of the World measures the degree to which people in 165 jurisdictions around the globe are allowed to make their own economic choices. …

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MQUP: McGill-Queen's University Press · 15 October 2024 English

A thorough account of the cultural achievements of the anthropologist and media scholar Edmund Snow Carpenter.

service with the US Marine Corps, seeing action in New Guinea (to which he would return as an anthropologist accepting a position at the University of Papua New Guinea. There he conducted his anthropological research Carpenter addressed this specifi- cally in Papua New Guinea, giving the camera to the native peoples he was


CIGI: Centre for International Governance Innovation · 20 September 2024 English

Baayina sentenced the SMC is known as a Wiringin, or “clever man,” the crocodiles to never enter the place that lives whose job it is to direct the initiated and …

2020). bridge connecting Australia and Papua New Guinea, now known as the Isles of the Torres Strait emanating Dreamtime Moon, “from Australia and New Guinea from the Milky Way are smoke serving as beacons


IISD: International Institute for Sustainable Development · 18 September 2024 English

This inventory showcases the variety of nature-based solutions (NbS) projects (both completed and ongoing) being implemented in Fiji's ecosystems.

mangroves, fisheries, and people of Fiji and Papua New Guinea Implementation entity WWF Project status Completed Location Regional: Fiji, Solomon Islands, Papua New Guinea Western Division: Vatu-i-Ra Seascape Intended


Wilson Center Canada · 18 September 2024 English

Market Dynamics and Production Process. [...] Demand Drivers and Pricing. [...] .7 Industrial, Aerospace, and Defense. [...] .12 Democratic Republic of Congo. [...] .14 Rest of World Production.

to modify the latter’s HPAL process in Papua, New Guinea, for a $1 .05 billion nickel/cobalt project in


IISD: International Institute for Sustainable Development · 27 August 2024 English

This report analyzes the progress made by Clean Energy Transition Partnership (CETP) signatories on shifting international public finance away from fossil fuels and into clean energy. It finds that although …

controversy, including gas projects in Guyana, Papua New Guinea, and Mozambique. In addition, the U.S. International


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