TRANSPARENCY INTERNATIONAL PAPUA NEW GUINEA CORRUPTION RISKS IN MINING AWARDS COUNTRY REPORT Cover image: Programme Lawyer from TIPNG’s Advocacy and Legal Advice Centre (ALAC) speaking to a community in Sinivit LLG of Pomio District in the East New Britain Province of Papua New Guinea in 2015 as part of a lands right awareness outreach programme. TRANSPARENCY INTERNATIONAL PAPUA NEW GUINEA CORRUPTION RISKS IN MINING AWARDS COUNTRY REPORT Authored by Prof. John Burton 30 June 2017 John Burton, PhD Professor of Papua New Guinea Studies Centre for Social Research Divine Word University P O Box 483, Nabasa Road Madang 511, Madang Province Papua New Guinea
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