Papers and publications on rural developments and labour in Papua New Guinea, 1947-1992 [microform]
- Bib ID:
- 3454960
- Format:
- Manuscript and Microform
- Author:
- Shand, R. T. (Richard Tregurtha)
- Access Conditions:
- Available for reference.
- Description:
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- 1947-1992
- 5 microfilm reels ; 35 mm.
- Series:
- PMB (Australian National University. Pacific Manuscripts Bureau) ; 1237.
- Summary:
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Unpublished papers on rural development, economics and labour in Papua New Guinea. The papers include reports on agricultural economics and cash crops by the Australian Bureau of Agricultural Economics (BAE) and the Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Organisation (CSIRO), 1947-48; reports on PNG economics and development by Raymond Firth, J.W. Davidson, O.K.H. Spate, C.S. Belshaw and T.W. Swan, 1951-53; J.G. Crawford's file on ANU projects in PNG, 1959; various government, bank and international organisations' reports, 1947-1991; report and transcript of a Board of Inquiry into Rural Minimum Wages in PNG, 1970.
- Biography/History:
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Professor R.T. Shand is a distinguished academic whose more recent research focuses on agricultural development in South Asia. He was based in the Department of Economics, Research School of Pacific and Asian Studies, Australian National University, from 1961 until 1999. His early interest in agricultural economics in Papua New Guinea, in particular cash crop development, is documented in these papers.
Professor Shand directed a 3-year study of the development of cash-cropping in PNG for the Reserve Bank of Australia, 1963-65. In 1967 68 he was a member of a committee advising on the first Five Year Plan for the economic development of PNG. In 1970 he was a member of a Board of Inquiry into Rural Minimum Wages in PNG. He has also been a consultant to the Asian Development Bank on matters relating to PNG and was a member of its 1975 Mission to PNG.
- Reproduction:
- Microfilm. Canberra, A.C.T. : Produced for the Pacific Manuscripts Bureau, Australian National University. 5 microfilm reels.
- Index/Finding Aid Note:
- Descriptive list available (7 p.) and on the Internet through http://rspas.anu.edu/pambu/
- Subject:
- Time Coverage:
- 1947-1992
- Occupation:
- Academics
- Other authors/contributors:
- Australian Bureau of Agricultural Economics
- Copyright:
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