The United Nations Development Programme has partnered with the Business Council of Papua New Guinea to prepare a platform that maps business engagement with the Sustainable Development Goals.
In 2016, the country’s private sector and civil society committed to contributing to achieve the 2030 agenda for Sustainable Development, which seeks to eliminate poverty, hunger and address other pressing issues within the next 15 years.
Also on this episode, we look at the manufacturing sector which remains critically important to both the developing and the advanced world.
PNG’s manufacturing sector is small and has a high cost of production, naturally, this act as a barrier to exporting, and yet local producers are increasingly finding new markets, particularly in the neighbouring Solomon Islands and other Pacific Islands, but even in Australia and New Zealand.
