The Need and Criteria for the Sectoral Programming of Australian Aid to Papua New Guinea
The challenges posed by high balance of payments deficits that manifest as high saving-investment gaps in Papua New Guinea (PNG) are analysed. Foreign aid can play play a pivotal role to fill these balance of payments or savings-investment gaps. Australia as the largest donor of foreign aid to PNG is concerned about the need for the effective disbursement or programming aid. In this paper we demonstrate that using sectoral (bunch-criteria) based on the semi-input-output model provides a better framework for evaluating the effective performance of aid than programming aid to projects.
Quantification of Sectoral Development Prospects in Papua New Guinea Using Tinbergen and Rasmussen Criteria
The paper critically reviews the development strategy that is embodied in the "eight aims" of the national plan enuciated for the development of post-independent economy of Papua New Guniea (PNG). An algebraic exposition of the semi-input-output criterion is the applied to identify the attractiveness of tradable sectors that qualify for further grooming on the basis of their comparative advantage in trade. The semi-input criterion is also applied for project appraisal and its mechanics are demonstrated using the palm oil project as a case study. The key sectors of the PNG economy using dominant linkage and spread effects are identified as potential candidates for development in the framework of the semi-input-output methodology.
Historical writing in twelfth‐ and thirteenth‐century Scotland: the Dunfermline compilation
This article examines the first three items in a manuscript housed in the Royal Library in Madrid but written at the Benedictine abbey of Dunfermline in Fife, Scotland during the reign of James III (1460–88). It argues that the three items were originally put together during the reign of Alexander III (1249–86) and together formed a compilation which should be viewed as the earliest extant history of the twelfth- and thirteenth-century kings of Scots. Interestingly, the Dunfermline compilation did not stress the Irish ancestry of the kings of Scots, as might be assumed, but instead set its subjects against the backdrop of their Anglo-Saxon descent from the house of Cerdic. The article then considers the relationship of the Dunfermline compilation to Turgot's Vita Sancte Margarete and Aelred of Rievaulx's Genealogia Regum Anglorum and argues that the use of these sources in the compilation suggest that it was put together for a particular political purpose, a purpose for which the Anglo-Saxon ancestry of the kings of Scots had particular relevance.