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Being milked: when CEOs and Ministers disagree over dairy protection[FT 9...
Of course, the public would like to help the two hundred or so small dairy farmers who make a living from selling milk to Rewa Dairy Cooperated Limited. But are the tax-payers and milk consumers of...
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Fiji’s Unfair opposition to Vanuatu kava [Fiji Times and Island Business,...
Do the larger countries like Fiji and PNG really believe in their trade agreements, like the Melanesian Spearhead Group (MSG)? The evidence from the recent kava kerfuffle suggests that they don’t. A...
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PICTA, PACER AND EPAs: where are we going? [Appeared in Islands Business,...
It has been a relatively easy matter for Pacific Island Country (PIC) governments to sign regional trade agreements, such as PICTA (Pacific Island Countries Trade Agreement-excluding Australia and NZ;)...
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The costs and hidden hand-outs of protectionism [The Fiji Times, 14 August 2002]
Which “handout” is the hardest to stop? Not the one that Mr Mac Patel was talking about at the recent NZ-Fiji Business Council meeting. Probably the hardest “hand-out” for any government (SVT,...
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The Impact of PICTA on alcohol and tobacco industries in Forum Island...
Alcohol and tobacco under PICTA Filed under: C 2010, Uncategorized Tagged: alcohol, PICTA, protectionism, tobacco
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Pacific Islands Countries’ Fiscal Reform needed for EPAs with the EU and...
Pacific Island Countries Fiscal Reform to prepare for EPAs and PACER Filed under: Uncategorized Tagged: Australia, duties, EPA, NZ, PACER Plus, protectionism
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“Making rich Fijians richer”: contextual statement for Defense Counsel for Mr...
Fiji must “make rich Fijians richer”: Contextual statement for the Defence Counsel for Mr Laisenia Qarase [This contextual statement was prepared for the Defence Counsel in the recent case against Mr...
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“The good, the bad, the ugly and the deceptive: the 2015 Budget” (edited...
The 2015 Budget: the Good, the Bad, the Ugly, and the Deceptive Professor Wadan Narsey (edited version appeared in Fiji Times, 29 Nov. 2014) This is the second year in eight years, that the annual...
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“The 2016 Budget U-turn” (edited article in Fiji Times, 14 Nov. 2015)
The 2016 Budget U-turn If you listened only to the first ten minutes of the 2016 Budget Speech by the Minister of Finance, you might think that the Bainimarama Government has been following a...
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“The entrepreneurial dreamer and his policewoman wife: Yee Wah Sing” (The...
The entrepreneurial dreamer and his policewoman: Yee Wah Sing The story was really meandering, as I tried to find out what lay behind the entrepreneurship of Yee Wah Sing, who: * came from a poor...
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