Remittances are extremely important for several Pacific island countries. Samoa and Tonga are two...
Category - Pacific growth and regional integration
Pacific Economic Monitor launched in Vanuatu
The ADB’s Pacific Economic Monitor (PEM) is now well established as a biannual flagship publication...
Pacific predictions: 2015
Further to my predictions for 2012, 2013 and 2014, here are my thoughts about what will be...
Is the Pacific really falling behind in the ease of doing...
The recent Devpolicy blog post ‘Doing business in 2014 – the Pacific falls behind’ describes, for...
Doing business in 2014 – the Pacific falls behind
The World Bank recently released their Ease of Doing Business rankings for 2014, a ranking of 189...
Fiji’s 2015 budget: ‘boring’, or just ‘business as usual’ for a...
Fiji’s 2015 budget ‘Turning Promises Into Deeds’ is the first budget of a democratically elected...
Another review of the Pacific regional architecture is neither...
The joint announcement by Fiji and Australia that the Pacific regional architecture should be...
Bainimarama and the Pacific Islands Forum: a storm in a calm...
Thinking members of the public would have been pleased to see the Chair of the Pacific Islands...
Problems with the Pacific Index
The Pacific Islands region faces complex, and in some instances unique, development challenges. The...
‘Pacific Stories’ – sharing insights from the region
Earlier in the year, we put together a collection of our favourite posts to the Devpolicy Blog that...