A senior European Union (EU) development official said Papua New Guinea (PNG)’s failure to fully implement its National Identification (NID) system is blocking rural economic growth and hindering smallholder farmers from accessing vital services. Pavel Burian, deputy program coordinator of the EU-STREIT PNG initiative, said the lack of formal identification remains one of the biggest...

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