Because of the economic downturn brought about by the global health crisis, the Bank of Papua New Guinea has revised its outlook on the gross domestic product (GDP) to decline by 4%, a downward spiral from its original projection last March 2020 of 0.3 per cent. This decline is also brought about by the imposing of State Emergency, lockdown and various po...

The latest international commodity price data published by the World Bank in April 2019, show improvements for most of PNG’s export commodity prices of energy, metals and non-energy commodities, compared to actual outcomes in December 2018. Bank of PNG Governor, Loi Bakani stated that price for Liquefied Natural Gas (LNG) based on imports to Japan increas...