Key Indicators for Pacific Island Countries (1996—2006)
Pacific island countries and dollarisation
... individual members give up their individual currencies and join a centrally administered organisation much like that of the European Union. Berg, Borensztein and Mauro (2002) observe that a benefit of a currency union is ...
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Thailand. Key Indicators for Asia and the Pacific Item
... k Includes net claims on government, local government, and public nonfinancial corporations from 2003 onward.. l Refers to claims on nonfinancial public enterprises and claims on busin[r] ...
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Myanmar. Key Indicators for Asia and the Pacific Item
... Grant element percent – – – – – – – – – – – – 74.3 77.2 72.0 ... ... | = marks break in series; ... = data not available at cutoff date; 0.0 = magnitude is less than half of unit employed; – = magnitude equals zero; cif ...
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Institutional Quality and Trade in Pacific Island Countries
... However, one aspect that has received little attention in terms of trade performance is the effect of institutions. Studies addressing the effect of institutional quality on trade are rare. Achieving and maintaining ...
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Integrating Renewable Energy in Pacific Island Countries
... Potential for the implementation of a wave energy project in Hawaii What are the utilities’ views on a potential firm wishing to implement a wave energy project in Hawaii? During an interview with Curtis Beck, manager at ...
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Pacific Island countries: in search of a trade strategy
... these countries to export more goods and services (moving up along the pyramid), but they would mean lower living standards in the short run (as imports become more expensive) before extra income generated through ...
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The development of trade arrangements in the Caribbean Island Nations and the Pacific Island Countries
... the Pacific countries, though dependence upon colonial administrators is self-explanatory, the Pacific micro-states also attracted interest from outside powers with no former colonial ...North ...
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Solomon Islands. Key Indicators for Asia and the Pacific 2017
... h Figure in 2012 includes part of grants that are not included in the computation of capital accounts surplus/deficit. i Capital expenditure is funded by the donor and the Government of Solomon Islands. j Figures exclude ...
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Cook Islands. Key Indicators for Asia and the Pacific Item
... the 2006 level was due to the settlement of the Italian loan held by Servizi Assicurativi del Commercio Estero (ex Express Cook Islands Agents Limited guarantee liability), offset in part by adverse exchange rate ...
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Poverty, climate change and health in pacific island countries
... In late 1999, about 70 percent of the economic infrastructure of Timor-L’Este was laid waste by Indonesian troops and anti-independence militias. Three hundred thousand people fled westward. Over the next three years a ...
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Is economic development in the Pacific island countries export led?
... the Pacific island countries as it complements the role of exports by serving as a supply of intermediate ...in Pacific island ...
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REVIEW OF POLICY AND LEGISLATION ON DISABILITY IN PACIFIC ISLAND COUNTRIES PACIFIC ISLANDS FORUM SECRETARIAT
... the countries concerned, Inclusion has designed a survey process, adapted it to the unique situation in each country, run pilot or initial surveys to test that process, and then proceeded to complete surveys in ...
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Oil Price and Economic Growth in Small Pacific Island Countries
... Abstract Among the 14 Pacific Island countries (PICs), only Papua New Guinea has fossil fuel resources. None of the remaining 13 PICs has any energy sources. Consequently, all the 13 PICs are totally ...
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Environmental Quality and Economic Growth : The Case of Pacific Island Countries
... nine Pacific Island countries, namely, Fiji, French Polynesia, Kiribati, New Caledonia, PNG, the Solomon Islands, Vanuatu, Samoa, and ...Micronesian countries which constitute the ...
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Financial sector development and economic growth in Pacific island countries
... capital net worth requirements to provide a buffer against potential insolvency; minimum liquid asset holdings at the central bank— put in place to ensure availability of a minimal level of liquidity; limitations on the ...
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Estimating aid growth equations: the case of Pacific Island countries
... the Pacific does appear to have received substantially more aid, and generated less economic growth from it than the rest of the developing world, this paper has been unable to isolate the reasons for ...
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Estimating aid growth equations: the case of Pacific Island countries
... the Pacific does appear to have received substantially more aid, and generated less economic growth from it than the rest of the developing world, this paper has been unable to isolate the reasons for ...
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Oil price and economic growth in small Pacific Island countries
... E-mail: [email protected], [email protected] Received November 22, 2010; revised February 11, 2011; accepted February 17, 2011 Abstract Among the 14 Pacific Island countries (PICs), only ...
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Some Empirical Evidence on the Demand for Money in the Pacific Island Countries
... developing countries have started targeting the rate of interest without significant evidence that their money demand functions have become ...advanced countries and target the rate of interest, according ...
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Panel Data Estimates of the Demand for Money in the Pacific Island Countries
... Abstract The Pedroni (2000) panel cointegration method is used to estimate the cointegrating equations for the demand for narrow money for a panel of five Pacific Island Countries (Fiji, Samoa, ...
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