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    Intermediary trading and the transformation of marketplaces in Papua New Guinea

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    Authors
    Sharp, Timothy
    Date
    2021
    Type
    Journal Article
    
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    Sharp, T.L.M. 2021. Intermediary trading and the transformation of marketplaces in Papua New Guinea. Journal of Agrarian Change. 21 (3): pp. 522-544.https://doi.org/10.1111/joac.12407
    Source Title
    Journal of Agrarian Change
    DOI
    10.1111/joac.12407
    ISSN
    1471-0358
    Faculty
    Faculty of Humanities
    School
    School of Design and the Built Environment
    Funding and Sponsorship
    http://purl.org/au-research/grants/[Australian Government (Australian Postgraduate Award)]
    http://purl.org/au-research/grants/[Australian National University]
    http://purl.org/au-research/grants/[Curtin University]
    http://purl.org/au-research/grants/[Australian Centre for International Agricultural Research]
    URI
    http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11937/97172
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    • Curtin Research Publications
    Abstract

    Trade in marketplaces is central to the domestic distribution of food and other goods throughout the developing world. The commodity networks involved are often complex with numerous intermediate transactions between producer and consumer. By contrast, in the Pacific nation of Papua New Guinea (PNG), marketplace trade has historically occurred through very short commodity networks. This article examines the appearance and growing significance of intermediary trading in PNG's marketplaces and associated trade networks. Reselling is supporting urban livelihoods at a time when making a living in town is increasingly precarious, but the transformation of marketplaces, I argue, also threatens to reduce the agency of rural producers and erode the incomes of certain producers. Growing intermediation may also see men increasingly involved in an economic domain where women have been central. The emergence of intermediaries is globally an important historical development, and this article provides a rare study of this process within the contemporary era.

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