Looking at the economy in Daru, Papua New Guinea (PNG), a few questions come up. Why is it that Chinese residents who have run a business for less than 10 years have been able to control the economy, while the local people still trade in the same way their ancestors did hundreds of years ago? […]
DEVELOPED democratic countries such as the US and UK elect leaders on merit and on certain requirements -especially policies.They elect people who know how to run a democracy. More so they have citizens who know and understand how democracy works. Having said that, it’s quite conflicting and contradictory to adopt a political system that is […]
Debra McDougall First published: 17 November 2009 https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1548-1433.2009.01157.x Citations: 13 Source: https://anthrosource.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/ Abstract ABSTRACT Islam is beginning to have a significant presence in the predominantly Christian nation of Solomon Islands. A few well-educated Islanders were drawn to Islam’s elegant monotheism and promise of unity in the 1980s and early 1990s, but numbers have grown significantly in the […]
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