Pacific Institute of Public Policy

WTO: Where are we heading?

Kaliopate Tavola discusses the issues central to the future of the WTO. As a former WTO permanent representative, he says despite all overtures at reforming it, this global international organization is fracturing and may be beyond repair.
Fisheries as foreign policy

The United States Multilateral Fisheries Treaty benefitted the United States and not Pacific island governments because the conditions for equity based on resource ownership and appropriate sharing were not considered in the treaty, writes Walter Diamana.
Island geostrategy

Kaliopate Tavola asks if a 'stable regional order’ as envisioned by Australia and New Zealand is being achieved at a time when their inclusion in Pacific regional architecture is being questioned.

13 November, 2014

Down but not out in French Polynesia

As French president Francois Hollande visits the region for the G20 summit, Nic Maclellan looks at recent developments in French Polynesia with the removal of one of the Pacific’s longest serving politicians, Gaston Flosse as President of the territory.

6 November, 2014

PiPP Staff

KEEPING THE PEACE

DP26 - There is a wider understanding of security issues emerging, such as the nexus between peace and development and what ensures ‘human security’ more broadly.

Re-casting Pacific regional architecture

4 November, 2014

Derek Brien

Re-casting Pacific regional architecture

Pacific leaders should embrace the opportunity to recalibrate our regionalism project. Let’s not fool ourselves, the discussions ahead will be difficult, but there is much to hope for if discussions progress ahead of the Sydney meeting.

31 October, 2014

PiPP Staff

ADB-Asian Think Tank Forum

PiPP is a founding member of the ADB–Asian Think Tanks Network which is an informal group of think tanks working on the areas of sustainable economic growth and inclusive development in the Asia-Pacific region.

Supporting the Melanesian schools debate competition

30 October, 2014

PiPP Staff

Supporting the Melanesian schools debate competition

The ANZ Bank of Vanuatu donates 50,000VT towards the Vanuatu team’s travelling costs to compete in the inaugural Melanesian Schools Debates Competition, jointly hosted by the Pacific Institute of Public Policy and the PNG’s Institute of Business Studies.

27 October, 2014

Giff Johnson

Corruption comes in many flavors

Media reports on government ‘corruption’ usually focus on theft of money from government ministries or agencies. But there are more subtle practices of government both at high level and at lower levels that are not often in view, but greatly impact operations of governments, argues Giff Johnson.

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ART OF DEVELOPMENT

DP22 – The creative economy has often been overlooked as a driver of economic growth, but is known to have important knock-on effects.
BEYOND FISH AND COCONUTS

DP03 – Are the islands heading for a free-trade paradise or are they forever lumbered with a colonial inheritance.
VANUATU’S ECONOMIC GROWTH

DP10 – Little noticed, economic growth in Vanuatu has accelerated in recent years dispelling the myth that Pacific economies cannot grow.

BULA-STAN

Ben Bohane seeks out the Fijians and Tongans operating in Helmand province
FOB PATROL AND A RAPPING MEDIC

Ben Bohane goes to Helmand province in southern Afghanistan, stepping outside the wire with more Micronesian troops and finding a medic who “raps” his mission in song.
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