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Pacific Island Economies »
Series: Books
Author(s): Christopher Browne
Publisher: INTERNATIONAL MONETARY FUND
Publication Date: 28 August 2006
DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.5089/9781589065161.071
ISBN: 9781589065161
Keywords: remittances, exchange rate, balance of payments, public debt, expenditure
The Pacific island region has considerable potential for development, especially in the areas of tourism, fisheries, forestry, mining, and agriculture. However, these countries face many challenges to developing th...

2 Public Sector Activities »
Source: Pacific Island Economies
Series: Books
Author(s): Christopher Browne
Publisher: INTERNATIONAL MONETARY FUND
Publication Date: 28 August 2006
ISBN: 9781589065161
Keywords: remittances, exchange rate, balance of payments, public debt, expenditure
Christopher Browne and Edimon Ginting Large and pervasive public sectors characterize the Pacific island countries. Despite the fact that low levels of private sector activity...

3 Private Sector Development »
Source: Pacific Island Economies
Series: Books
Author(s): Christopher Browne
Publisher: INTERNATIONAL MONETARY FUND
Publication Date: 28 August 2006
ISBN: 9781589065161
Keywords: remittances, exchange rate, balance of payments, public debt, expenditure
Christopher Browne and Jong Kyu Lee Private sector activity in the Pacific island countries is a small share of GDP and has increased only modestly in recent years. The privat...

4 The Pacific Plan for Strengthening Regional Cooperation and Integration »
Source: Pacific Island Economies
Series: Books
Author(s): Christopher Browne
Publisher: INTERNATIONAL MONETARY FUND
Publication Date: 28 August 2006
ISBN: 9781589065161
Keywords: remittances, exchange rate, balance of payments, public debt, expenditure
Christopher Browne Pacific Forum Economic Ministers called for a Pacific Plan for Strengthening Regional Cooperation and Integration at their April 2004 meeting in Auckland, N...

5 Remittances and Migration »
Source: Pacific Island Economies
Series: Books
Author(s): Christopher Browne
Publisher: INTERNATIONAL MONETARY FUND
Publication Date: 28 August 2006
ISBN: 9781589065161
Keywords: remittances, exchange rate, balance of payments, public debt, expenditure
Christopher Browne Remittances to developing countries have grown steadily over the past three decades. In many countries, they now constitute the largest single source of for...

6 The Pacific Islands and the Eastern Caribbean Currency Union: A Comparative Review »
Source: Pacific Island Economies
Series: Books
Author(s): Christopher Browne
Publisher: INTERNATIONAL MONETARY FUND
Publication Date: 28 August 2006
ISBN: 9781589065161
Keywords: remittances, exchange rate, balance of payments, public debt, expenditure
Valeria Fichera Claims that similarities among small island developing countries call for the implementation of similar development strategies and underlying economic policies...

7 Options for Alternative Exchange RateArrangements »
Source: Pacific Island Economies
Series: Books
Author(s): Christopher Browne
Publisher: INTERNATIONAL MONETARY FUND
Publication Date: 28 August 2006
ISBN: 9781589065161
Keywords: remittances, exchange rate, balance of payments, public debt, expenditure
Susan Creane, Jun Il Kim, and Laura Papi, with assistance from Agnes Isnawangsih 1 The question of what exchange rate regime best fits...

8 Fiji »
Source: Pacific Island Economies
Series: Books
Author(s): Christopher Browne
Publisher: INTERNATIONAL MONETARY FUND
Publication Date: 28 August 2006
ISBN: 9781589065161
Keywords: remittances, exchange rate, balance of payments, public debt, expenditure
Alain D’Hoore Fiji is the second largest among the Pacific island countries, with a population estimated at about 840,000. Its total land area of 18,000 square kilometers is d...

9 Kiribati »
Source: Pacific Island Economies
Series: Books
Author(s): Christopher Browne
Publisher: INTERNATIONAL MONETARY FUND
Publication Date: 28 August 2006
ISBN: 9781589065161
Keywords: remittances, exchange rate, balance of payments, public debt, expenditure
Tarhan FeyzioĞlu The Republic of Kiribati consists of 33 islands straddling the equator. All the islands are coral atolls, with the exception of Banaba, which is of l...

10 Marshall Islands »
Source: Pacific Island Economies
Series: Books
Author(s): Christopher Browne
Publisher: INTERNATIONAL MONETARY FUND
Publication Date: 28 August 2006
ISBN: 9781589065161
Keywords: remittances, exchange rate, balance of payments, public debt, expenditure
Hali Edison and Dan Nyberg The Republic of the Marshall Islands (RMI) consists of a group of atolls and islands in the central Pacific with a total land area of 20,000 square...