Economic Growth and Formal Education in Papua and New Guinea

Pearse R. “Education for Advancement in the Territory of Papua and New Guinea”. (Unpublished M.Ed. thesis, University of Sydney, 1964).

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International Bank for Reconstruction and Development. The Economic Development of the Territory of Papua and New Guinea. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins Press, 1965; also in mimeo, Dept. of Territories, Canberra, 1964.

Lewis W. Arthur . “Education and Economic Development”. Annex iv, 71–9 in Final Report Conference of African States on the Development of Education in Africa. ED/181. Addis Ababa, 15–25 May 1961. Unesco.

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Federal Ministry of Education, op. cit., part ii, 50–51.

Ibid., 53.

Vaizey John . “Criteria for Public Expenditure on Education”. In Robinson, E. A. G., and Vaizey, J. E. The Economics of Education. Proceedings of a Conference held by the International Economic Association. London: Macmillan, 1966, 451–462.

From Chenoweth D. “Some Problems of Skilled Manpower”. Paper delivered to Council on N.G. Affairs Seminar, Goroka, 1955. The estimated growth in the public service was from 1% of total population in 1963 to between 2% to 3% in 1990.

Report of Commission on Higher Education, op. cit., 21.

Ibid., 21.

Ibid., 31.

Territory of Papua and New Guinea, Australian Press Statement No. 143, Nov. 1963. The Director of Public Health expected the annual rate of population growth to increase from 2.2% in 1963 to 3.75% in 1976, and then to decline to 2.8% by 2000.

Adiseshiah M. Op. cit., 60.

1950 and 1960 figures from Adiseshiah, M., op. cit., 52; 1963 G.D.P. from Lattin, D., “European Economic Involvement in T.P.N.G.”, paper delivered to Assn. Cultural Freedom Seminar, Port Moresby, 1965.