Pacific Institute of Public Policy

4 November, 2015

What China’s ‘Belt and Road’ initiative means for the Pacific

As the United States and China offer competing economic visions for the Pacific, Kalafi Moala examines China's latest initiative following on from its Maritime Silk Route policy, suggesting there may be opportunities for the islands beyond economics.

Will labor mobility be the next major Pacific industry? (Part two)

17 August, 2015

Kalafi Moala

Will labor mobility be the next major Pacific industry? (Part two)

In this second of a two-part blog, Kalafi Moala continues the discussion on the growing international movement of Pacific workers going overseas and its benefits for local and foreign economies.

Will labor mobility be the next major Pacific industry? (Part one)

10 August, 2015

Kalafi Moala

Will labor mobility be the next major Pacific industry? (Part one)

In this first of a two-part blog, Kalafi Moala crunches the numbers around labor mobility and its growing benefits to Pacific island nations through the RSE and SWP initiatives.

Why Pacific reformers find it difficult (Part two)

31 July, 2015

Kalafi Moala

Why Pacific reformers find it difficult (Part two)

In this second of a two-part blog, Kalafi Moala explores further the tension between newly elected leadership and conservative bureaucracies in the Pacific.

21 July, 2015

Kalafi Moala

Why Pacific reformers find it difficult

Kalafi Moala explores the tension between newly elected leadership and conservative bureaucracies in this first of a two-part blog.

27 May, 2015

Kalafi Moala

Embracing change the Pacific way

What became apparent at the Pohiva-Bainimarama discourse is the setting of a new course in the way Pacific states are willing to carry out diplomatic relations. They are applying the Pacific way in which leaders can dialogue– without necessarily highlighting opposition on matters they differ on, writes Kalafi Moala.