Business leaders are not quite ready to call it, but there are promising signs as Papua New Guinea celebrates its 50th anniversary of independence. Business Advantage PNG spoke with the country’s top CEOs to learn more about current business conditions.
Economic update: Will 2025 be Papua New Guinea’s golden year?
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The 2025 PNG 100 CEO Survey: the results
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Since 2012, the data collected by the PNG 100 CEO Survey has revealed trends in business confidence among Papua New Guinea business leaders. So, how confident are businesses in 2025?
What does the 2025 PNG 100 CEO Survey tell us?
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This year’s PNG 100 CEO Survey reveals a positive shift in sentiment among Papua New Guinea business leaders, although longstanding impediments remain. Justin Smirk, Westpac Senior Economist, provides his analysis of this year’s survey results.
What does the 2024 PNG 100 CEO Survey tell us? [analysis]
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While business confidence is largely sustained in this year’s PNG 100 CEO Survey, there are rising concerns about several business impediments. Westpac Senior Economist Justin Smirk provides his analysis of this year’s survey results.
CEO Survey suggests Papua New Guinea business is less bullish, but still planning to invest
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The 2024 results of Papua New Guinea’s annual business confidence survey, the PNG 100 CEO Survey, are out. What have PNG’s leading companies told us about their profit, investment and recruitment expectations – and the major impediments they face?
Six things business needs to know about Papua New Guinea’s economy [analysis]
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Westpac’s Senior Economist Justin Smirk has been studying Papua New Guinea’s economy for over 20 years. He recently provided the 2023 Business Advantage Investment Conference with six things businesses should understand about PNG’s economy, as we wait for the next wave of resources investment to begin.
What does the 2023 PNG 100 CEO Survey tell us about business confidence in Papua New Guinea? [analysis]
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The results of the 2023 PNG 100 CEO Survey, Papua New Guinea’s annual business confidence survey, have been released. Westpac’s Senior Economist, Justin Smirk, draws on 12 years of survey results to highlight the changes in business conditions and the issues faced by business.
CEO Survey reveals the outlook for Papua New Guinea business in 2023
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The Business Advantage PNG/Westpac PNG 100 CEO Survey has asked the CEOs of Papua New Guinea’s largest companies for their profit, investment and recruitment expectations for 2023. It also asked them to name the top impediments facing their businesses. Here are the results.
The 2022 PNG 100 CEO Survey: the return of optimism
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The PNG 100 CEO Survey captured the depth of the COVID crisis through 2021, and is now charting a return of some optimism in 2022, according to analysis provided by Westpac’s Senior Economist, Justin Smirk.
2021 PNG 100 CEO Survey: a snapshot of the effects of COVID-19 in Papua New Guinea [analysis]
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The annual Business Advantage/Westpac PNG 100 CEO Survey has captured the depth of the COVID-19 crisis and the sense of uncertainty that exists among businesses in Papua New Guinea. Westpac’s Senior Economist Justin Smirk takes a closer look.
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