AN INPUT-OUTPUT VIEW OF AGRICULTURE IN PAPUA NEW GUINEA

Despite the dependence of the economy of Papua New Guinea upon plantation and smallholder agriculture, little has been known of the inter-relationships which exist between agriculture and the remainder of the economy, or of the changes which would follow from implementation of the official development programme. In this article, a recently completed input-output table is used to quantify these relationships in 1970 and to project changes over the period to 1978.