2010, Volume 25, Number 3

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Articles

Colin Filer, The impacts of rural industry on the native forests of Papua New Guinea

Samuel Brazys, Dutch Disease in the Western Pacific: an overview of the FSM economy under the Amended Compact of Free Association

Steven Ratuva, Back to basics: towards integrated social protection for vulnerable groups in Vanuatu

Colin Hunt, Compensating for the costs of reducing deforestation in Papua New Guinea

Tim Martyn, The economic feasibility of coconut-oil bio-fuels in the Pacific

Jetori Mauro, Michael Lyne and Gilbert Nartea, Constraints to small-grower investment in coffee production in the Eastern Highlands of Papua New Guinea

Daniel Evans, Tensions at the Gold Ridge mine, Guadalcanal, Solomon Islands

Mahendra Reddy, Theory and practice of regulation in small economies: the Fijian experience

Steven Ratuva, Vakatorocaketaki ni taukei: the politics of affirmative action in post colonial Fiji

Gabriel Luke Kiddle, Perceived security of tenure and housing consolidation in informal settlements: case studies from urban Fiji

Gaël Lagadec and Catherine Ris, Reform of indirect taxation and VA-based employers’ contributions: New Caledonia on its way to a social VAT?

Uwe Kaufmann, Pacific trade liberalisation and tariff revenues: a comment

Focus

Helen Hughes, Aid has failed the Pacific

Rowan Callick, Sometimes it’s not nice to be proven right

Anthony van Fossen, Doomsday postponed?

Richard Bedford, Responding to the urbanisation of Melanesia’s populations: a critical 21st century challenge

Policy Dialogue

Ron Duncan, Managing natural resource revenues in Papua New Guinea

Jon Fraenkel, Coups and ethnic politics in Fiji

Economic Surveys

John Gibson, Recent shocks and long-term change in the Samoan economy

Statistics

South Pacific statistics at a glance