Are we going to define our own development pathway of just be in the "YES BOSS" mentality? Look at how World Bank and the International Financial Institutions (IFIs) have done to our beloved country and the once unique traditional and workable systems we had. Influenced and Framed to think and behave like them!! In fact we cannot. Lets us look back at how our ancestors lived!!!!

Source: Dan Jorgense

Chapter 4. Clan-Finding, Clan-Making and the Politics of Identity in Papua New Guinea Mining Project

..a World Bank report in the late 1970s laid the groundwork for a major shift towards capital-intensive enclave projects to develop the country's mineral resources. From the beginning of the 1980s onwards, the state’s development strategy mandated the inauguration of numerous mining projects that were to become the mainstay of the national economy.

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Development, The Melanesian Way, and The Eight Aims

Whatever PNG lacked by way of common tradition at Independence was more than made up by an enthusiasm for development (developmen) in all regions of the country, and many of the new state’s claims to legitimacy were based on promises that all Papua New Guineans could expect development to come their way. If one were to ask where the Melanesian Way led, the answer would be, to development, but on authentic Papua New Guinean terms. While short on specifics, the notion of a Melanesian path to development did more than simply espouse an essentialised identity based on values of community and the continued viability of tradition: it claimed modernity as a Melanesian project. Thus the end of Australian rule did not mean the end of the prospects of development that had figured so prominently in Australia’s own justification of its tenure in PNG, and dreams awakened in the colonial era would not vanish, even if the colonialists did.

In attempting to reconcile generic notions of tradition with modernist hopes,^[2] the ideology of the Melanesian Way also grappled with one of the worries that preoccupied planners and politicians in the state’s early days, namely, the tension between egalitarian goals and the reality that development often produces inequality. A solution adopted by the Constitutional Planning Committee was to turn the platitudes of the Melanesian Way into policy guidelines in the formulation of the ‘Eight Aims’ (or Eight Point Plan). Widely publicised (for example, Somare 1974) and incorporated into the Constitution, the Eight Aims set forth principles meant to guide development through the use of ‘Papua New Guinean methods’. Espousing a populist egalitarian ethos, the document calls for

more equal distribution of economic benefits, including movement toward equalisation of incomes among people and toward equalisation of services among different areas of the country … [and] an emphasis on small-scale artisan, service, and business activity, relying where possible on typically Papua New Guinean forms of organization (CPC 1974 cited in Fitzpatrick 1980: 203).

Critics have been quick to point out the romanticised myths underlying this ideology (Filer 1990: 9), and many have noted its tendency to mask growing inequalities between rural people and the national elite (Fitzpatrick 1980: 202ff). It is, however, fair to say that the early post-Independence era was marked by an attempt to realise the romantic ideal by implementing these principles in terms of a ‘small is beautiful’ development policy.

Under the aegis of this commitment to agrarian populism, the state launched a series of schemes promoting rural smallholder production. Such policies did little to generate the revenues needed to finance government programs, however, and a World Bank report in the late 1970s laid the groundwork for a major shift towards capital-intensive enclave projects to develop the country's mineral resources. From the beginning of the 1980s onwards, the state’s development strategy mandated the inauguration of numerous mining projects that were to become the mainstay of the national economy.

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