The areas with great potential are in tourism specifically eco-tourism, agriculture, and small to medium sized manufacturing. These are the least developed sectors and the ones that badly need entrepreneurial initiatives and skills. These are the industries that in the long run will provide the back bone of economic growth and income generating opportunities and employment for the great majority of the population.
In our thirty one years of independence we have had, fourteen years of stable low growth up to 1989, ten years of very difficult times up to 1999, following the Bougainville crisis.