The Pacific Plan was suggested by an Eminent Persons Group in 2003 to provide “an overarching...
Category - Pacific growth and regional integration
Pacific predictions: 2021
COVID continues As is the case the world over, the early part of 2021 will see no let up in the...
PACER Plus: a third view
PACER Plus – a regional trade agreement between Australia, New Zealand and Pacific island countries...
PACER Plus: the case for
PACER Plus, a trade and development agreement including Australia and New Zealand and a majority of...
PACER Plus: the case against
On 13 December 2020 the controversial regional free trade agreement – the Pacific Agreement on...
The Pacific Islands Forum leadership: who and for what?
Five nations from the region have nominated candidates for the position of Secretary General of the...
Cross-border trade: Indonesia and PNG
Informal cross-border trade (ICBT) between sovereign states may be illegal, but it is not...
Australia leaves Fiji to flounder
Fiji’s fiscal year begins in August, and the government brought down its 2020-21 budget in July...
How to get from response to recovery in the Pacific
As of 24 August 2020, six countries in the Pacific Island Countries and Territories (PICTs) had...
Australians support the Pacific travel bubble
There has been a fair bit of discussion about a potential Pacific travel bubble. That’s the idea...