A recent entrant into the insurance market, BIMA provides convenient, affordable life and hospitalization insurance cover via a mobile platform to nearly 400,000 often low-income, financially underserved Papua New Guineans, the majority are receiving the economic safety net of insurance cover for the first time.
Economic Developments  Business Fixed Investment and Private Consumption Developments in Consumption prior to and after the Tax Hikes  Business Fixed Investment Plans 10 y/y % chg.  106  8  s.a., average 16-18 months before the tax hike=100  104  FY 2019  April 2014 tax hike  FY 2018  6  October 2019 tax hike  102 4  100  average (FY 2004-2018) 2  98  0  96  -2 Mar.