This was revealed by Dr Kobby Bomareo, Vice-Minister for National Planning at the Annual Planning Conference in Port Moresby last week.
“Since Independence, we have progressed significantly in number of key development indicators. Our human development index has improved from 0.3 to 0.52 in 2015. This is still not as impressive and far from our closest neighbors such as Fiji which is 0.74 is and rank 91 out of 188.
