ABSTRACT
This chapter suggests that the politics of the situation made the mission a defective factor. It shows that Papua-New Guinea is especially interesting for development economics. Save for the mandatory reports of the missions of the Trusteeship Council on New Guinea, the World Bank report was one of the first major international incursions into this enclave of Australian colonial policy. The approach adopted by the Report accentuates the characteristics of the outside and ostensibly economic consideration of development as a basis for policy. Then there is a severe contradiction between the demands of responsibility and the type of role which the Report feels itself bound to give the European, and particularly the European settler, as a factor in rapid economic development towards economic viability. The Report argues that the Administration is to provide a policy framework within which a European contribution can continue to occur. It gives nothing like a clear analysis and evaluation of the different sectors of policy.
