A United Nations representative says corruption is one of the reasons why Papua New Guinea's large wealth from its resources has not improved the country's human development.
Jorg (Yorg) Shimmel, from the UNDP in PNG says that despite having one of the highest growth rates, PNG will not meet any of its 2015 Millennium Development goals. A conference last week, hosted by the government and the UN, brought together experts and researchers, industry, civil society and government stakeholders to discuss the issue. Mr Shimmel says PNG has joined the Extractive Industries Transparency Initiative and is looking into additional steps to increase transparency and accountability of public financial management. This was in fact confirmed by the Minister of Planning at last week's conference aswell. Corruption is definitely an issue in that regard but there are also very tremendable steps to actually address those issues. Jorg (Yorg) Shimmel RNZI
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