Pacific Island Countries (Pics)
Oil Price and Economic Growth in Small Pacific Island Countries
... 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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Some Empirical Evidence on the Demand for Money in the Pacific Island Countries
... of Pacific Island Countries (PICs) economic data in many areas, there are few islands in which economic data and in particular, the money stock and income are provided by their central ...
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Estimating aid growth equations: the case of Pacific Island countries
... This paper has briefly reviewed the literature on the aid -growth relationship with respect to the Pacific Island countries. This review showed that all the empirical works on the PICs have closed ...
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Corporate governance and board performance: empirical evidence from Pacific Island countries
... Achieving adequate economic growth is crucially important for the improvement of standards of living and the livelihoods of people in the Pacific island countries (PICs). A successful business sector ...
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Addressing Land Issues in Disaster Risk Management in the Pacific Island Countries
... in Pacific island countries (PICs) in terms of the linkage between disaster response and land issues, as well as highlighting lessons for improved DRM and longer- term adaptation to a changing ...the ...
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Economics of Households in Pacific Island Countries: A Case Study of Vanuatu and Tuvalu
... the Pacific Island Countries and also within a country; between urban and rural ...Most Pacific Island Countries (PICs) and their households rely on subsistence activities and ...
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Estimating aid growth equations: the case of Pacific Island countries
... This paper has briefly reviewed the literature on the aid -growth relationship with respect to the Pacific Island countries. This review showed that all the empirical works on the PICs have closely ...
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An educational program for mental health nurses and community health workers from Pacific Island countries: results from a pilot study
... This research indicates that the education program developed and delivered to the 18 participants from Pacific island countries was beneficial. Participants reported the education program had a ...
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Vulnerability of Tropical Pacific Fisheries and Aquaculture to Climate Change: summary for Pacific Island Countries and Territories
... many Pacific Island countries and territories demands new approaches to the sustainable use of natural resources for economic, human and social ...of Pacific Island Fisheries’ by the ...
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Livestock disease surveillance and biosecurity priorities in the Pacific Island countries and territories
... the Pacific Island countries and territories (PICTs) zoonotic diseases such as leptospirosis, scabies, bovine tuberculosis and brucellosis are endemic (Brioudes, Warner, Hedlefs, & Gummow, 2014; ...
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Fragile Paradise: Health Impacts of Climate Change in Pacific Island Countries
... Abstract: Background: The health impacts of climate change are an issue of growing concern in the Pacific region. Prior to 2010, no formal, structured, evidence-based approach had been used to identify the most ...
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Influenza surveillance in the Pacific Island countries and territories during the 2009 pandemic: an observational study
... Historically, Pacific island countries and territories (PICTs) have been more severely affected by influenza pandemics than any other part of the ...four Pacific island nations were ...
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Labour market institutions in small Pacific island countries: Main guidelines for labour market reforms
... these countries may be a great source of costs and inefficiencies if job mobility and skills enhancing is not part of medium-term labour market ...small Pacific island countries expanding the ...
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Corporate governance and board performance: empirical evidence from Pacific Island countries
... developed countries (Australia= 8 per cent; US= 6 per ...developed countries can be attributed to the introduction of limits on the number of directorial positions that a director could ...emerging ...
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Aid effectiveness in the South Pacific island countries : a study case of Vanuatu
... remained sustainable, mainly because of generous external aid and pure grants from the bilateral sources, primarily Australia, New Zealand and the European Union. See Table 3. Until the early 1990s, budgetary grants from ...
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Analysis of policy implications and challenges of the Cuban health assistance program related to human resources for health in the Pacific
... Small island nations such as those in the Pacific region face considerable challenges in delivering comprehensive packages of primary health care and specialist medical services to their ...many ...
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The Pacific Solution – A Catastrophe for the Pacific!?
... the Pacific Islands might become ...of countries that are potential destinations of environmental refugees or affected people, who realize that it is not at all a pleasure to lose the home, and that it ...
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Vulnerability of Tropical Pacific Fisheries and Aquaculture to Climate Change: summary for Pacific Island Countries and Territories
... 16. Gehrke PC, Sheaves MJ, Terry JP, Boseto DT and others (2011) Vulnerability of freshwater and estuarine fish habitats in the tropical Pacific to climate change. In: JD Bell, JE Johnson and AJ Hobday (eds) ...
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Temporal_and_thematic_trends_in_water_sanitation_and_hygiene-2017.pdf
... Pacific Island Countries (PICs) lag behind global trends in water, sanitation and hygiene (WaSH) development. We conducted a systematic search of all English language papers (published before ...
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An economic analysis of the domestication of the tuna fishery - the case of Kiribati
... the countries of the region could benefit significantly by changing the level and structure of access fees levied as a percentage of total catch ...and Pacific Island Countries (PICs) in whose ...
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