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.

20 October, 2011

Melanesian Face to Face

Nearly 30 years after Fiji, Papua New Guinea, Solomon Islands and Vanuatu came together as a political alliance, the Pacific Institute of Public Policy (PiPP)…

13 September, 2011

PiPP Staff

FAIR DINKUM?

PiPP executive director, Derek Brien, joins One Just World’s discussion on Australian aid effectiveness.

8 September, 2011

PiPP Staff

Pacific Debate 2011

Pacific students from the University of Auckland join with regional policy specialists to debate the motion “That government focus should be on urban development to support economic growth”.

8 September, 2011

PiPP Staff

Pacific Debate 2011

The Pacific Debate is an annual debate organised and hosted by the Pacific Institute of Public Policy (pacificpolicy.org) to focus attention on a major policy…

7 September, 2011

PiPP Staff

A joint initiative with the Development Policy Centre, the Pacific Buzz provided a bi-weekly round up of key political and economic news and events affecting Pacific island countries and their neighbours.

21 July, 2011

PiPP Staff

URBAN HYMNS

DP18 - Urbanisation needs to be seen and managed as a national priority, while a new mindset is required that can look positively at the urban process.

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LENDING FIJI A HAND

DP09 – Fiji has a complex history that requires careful examination. There is unlikely to be any benefit in isolating Fiji and its new regime. Let’s be constructive, keep it in the family and work with Fiji to develop its democracy.
BEYOND FISH AND COCONUTS

DP03 – Are the islands heading for a free-trade paradise or are they forever lumbered with a colonial inheritance.
PATRIOT GAMES

DP21 – Around the Pacific new superpower alliances, new fault-lines and new opportunities are opening up after decades of neglect. But Pacific voices need to be heard too.

Coalition builder

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EYES IN THE SKY

Ben Bohane joins Guam Battalion troops being trained in the use of drones.
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.