Dollarization of the South Pacific Island Countries: Results of a Preliminary Study

2005 ◽  
Vol 4 (2) ◽  
pp. 197-228 ◽  
Author(s):  
Keyword(s):  
South Pacific ◽  
Developed Countries ◽  
Pacific Island ◽  
The South ◽  
Fiscal Discipline ◽  
Single Currency ◽  
The Pacific ◽  
Pacific Island Countries ◽  
The Developed Countries ◽  
Optimum Currency

AbstractThis paper examines the case for adopting the Australian dollar as a common currency among the island countries in the South Pacific. The proposal of a single currency was informally floated by Australia at the Pacific Forum Leaders Meeting in Auckland, in August 2003. The Pacific Forum consists of 14 developing island countries and the developed countries in the region, namely, Australia and New Zealand. In early 2003, a committee of the Australian Senate recommended adoption of a single currency as a possible remedy to meet the deteriorating economic situations in the Pacific island countries, arising out of poor fiscal discipline and failure to effectively use external aid inflows. Successful adoption of a single currency with either a new currency or an existing currency of a dominant partner in trade and development requires the fulfillment of various prerequirements, which are well known as optimum currency area conditions. The paper assesses the feasibility of the proposal in the light of these conditions and concludes that the time for adoption has not yet arrived.

scholarly journals Learners' access to tools and experience with technology at the University of the South Pacific: Readiness for e-learning

2011 ◽  
Vol 27 (3) ◽  
Author(s):  
Shikha Raturi ◽  
Robert Hogan ◽  
Konai Helu Thaman
Keyword(s):  
South Pacific ◽  
Technology In Education ◽  
Pacific Island ◽  
Learning Tools ◽  
The South ◽  
Use Of Technology ◽  
The Pacific ◽  
E Learning ◽  
Pacific Island Countries ◽  
The University

<span>Technology in higher education has become exceedingly popular and useful; however, a digital divide generally applies to the use of technology in education in many developing countries. The Pacific Island countries differ in their technological capacities and infrastructure, with the Fijian capital Suva being most technologically and infrastructurally advanced compared with other towns in Fiji and in other Pacific Island countries. This led the researchers to investigate access to e-learning tools and experience with technology amongst a group of 92 students, ranging from 18 to over 55 years of age, enrolled in postgraduate courses in education at the University of the South Pacific. A survey consisting of questions on age, gender, qualification, professional experience, ethnicity and access to and experience with technology was carried out for one cohort. The findings indicate an encouraging level of readiness for e-learning.</span>

Sailing into the Anthropocene

2016 ◽  
Author(s):  
Peter Dauvergne
Keyword(s):  
South Pacific ◽  
The Political ◽  
Pacific Island ◽  
The South ◽  
Large Numbers ◽  
The Pacific ◽  
History Of ◽  
The Pacific Ocean ◽  
Starting Date ◽  
History Of The South

Chapters 2–6 survey the political and socioeconomic forces underlying the global sustainability crisis. Understanding the scale and depth of contemporary forces of capitalism and consumerism requires a close look at the consequences of imperialism and colonialism on patterns of violence and exploitation. This chapter begins this process of understanding by sketching the history of ecological imperialism after 1600, seeing this as a reasonable starting date for the beginning of what many scholars are now calling the Anthropocene Epoch (or the age of humans, replacing the geologic epoch of the Holocene beginning 12,000 years ago). It opens with Captain Pedro Fernandes de Queirós’s voyage across the Pacific Ocean in 1605–06 to “discover” modern-day Vanuatu, before turning to look more globally at the devastation of imperialism – and later colonialism – for the South Pacific, the Americas, Africa, and Asia. Over this time conquerors enslaved and murdered large numbers of indigenous people; cataclysmic change came as well, however, from the introduction of European diseases, plants, and animals. This chapter’s survey of imperialism, colonialism, and globalization sets the stage for Chapter 3, which explores the devastating history of the South Pacific island of Nauru after 1798.

Are the Pacific Island Countries Ready for a Single Currency?

2007 ◽  
Vol 40 (2) ◽  
pp. 141-154 ◽  
Author(s):  
Kraiwinee. Bunyaratavej ◽  
T. K. Jayaraman
Keyword(s):  
Pacific Island ◽  
Single Currency ◽  
The Pacific ◽  
Pacific Island Countries

Potential of ethno-veterinary medicine in animal health care practices in the South Pacific Island countries: a review

2020 ◽  
Vol 52 (5) ◽  
pp. 2193-2203 ◽  
Author(s):  
Archibold G. Bakare ◽  
Shipra Shah ◽  
Vingelle Bautista-Jimenez ◽  
Jahangeer A. Bhat ◽  
Suchindra R. Dayal ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Health Care ◽  
Veterinary Medicine ◽  
Animal Health ◽  
South Pacific ◽  
Pacific Island ◽  
The South ◽  
South Pacific Island ◽  
Health Care Practices ◽  
Care Practices ◽  
Pacific Island Countries

scholarly journals Official Development Assistance as an Aspect of the Australia-China Competition in the South Pacific

2020 ◽  
pp. 193-205
Author(s):  
Artyom A. Garin ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Development Assistance ◽  
Geographical Location ◽  
South Pacific ◽  
Official Development Assistance ◽  
Great Powers ◽  
Pacific Island ◽  
The South ◽  
Island States ◽  
The Pacific ◽  
Pacific Island States

Due to China's increasing involvement in South Pacific, there is a growing interest on the part of the middle and great powers in providing the Pacific island States with an increasing amount of material assistance. With its unique geographical location, as well as numerous initiatives in the humanitarian, trade, economic and defence areas, Australia's influence is reinforced by its status as the major ODA source in Oceania. At the same time, despite Australia's clear advantage in providing ODA to South Pacific states, the region is attracting an increasing number of countries aimed at providing ODA to South Pacific countries, especially China.

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