2009, Volume 24, Number 1

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Articles

Peter Larmour, How much corruption is there in the Pacific islands? A review of different approaches to measurement

Stephen Howes, Cheap but not easy: the reduction of greenhouse gas emissions from deforestation and forest degradation in Papua New Guinea

Gae Kauzi and Thomas Sampson, Shock exposure-commodity prices and the kina

David Lea, New initiatives in the development of customary land: group versus individual interests

Vinod Mishra, Susan Sharma and Russell Smyth, Are shocks to real output permanent or transitory? Evidence from a panel of Pacific island countries

John Connell and Jeremy Hammond, Iso Iso: the first ni-Vanuatu guest workers in New Zealand

Benedict Y. Imbun, Is the potential of labour’s contribution to development acknowledged in the Pacific island countries?

Jonathan Gouy, Papua New Guinea’s intergovernmental financing reforms: an assessment

Kalara McGregor, Barriers to CDM projects in Pacific island countries: a focus on Fiji

Jeremy Cox, The money pit: an analysis of Nauru’s phosphate mining policy

Stephen Howes and Nikunj Soni, Comment: Vanuatu’s good recent growth performance

Policy Dialogue

Jon Fraenkel, The context and consequences of the October 2008 Qarase versus Bainimarama High Court ruling

Jon Fraenkel, Options for the election of people’s representatives in Tonga

Economic surveys

Aaron Batten, Jonathan Gouy and Ron Duncan, Papua New Guinea economic survey: from boom to gloom?

Book Reviews

Ron Duncan, Property rights, Indigenous people and the developing world: issues from aboriginal entitlement to intellectual ownership rights

Statistics

South Pacific statistics at a glance