This report analyzes the distribution of income, constructs a poverty profile, and looks at the extent to which the … distribution in rural areas. Finally, the report concludes that to effectively alleviate poverty, additional analysis needs to be …

collected data from a rural household survey in PNG, including detailed consumption and expenditure data, to explore poverty … the survey areas and calculate area-specific poverty lines. In addition, we explore correlates of household consumption … expenditure. Results suggest that approximately half of the survey sample have total consumption expenditure below the poverty …

reduced poverty. Yet given the extent of public resources invested, was this the most that policy makers could expect in terms … of reducing poverty? To answer this question, I estimate a discrete choice model of work and welfare participation … decisions, and use the behavioral estimates to derive the policy parameters that would have minimized poverty among lone mothers …