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Yabaki, Tamarisi, and n/a. "WOMEN�S LIFE IN A FIJIAN VILLAGE." University of Canberra. School of Education and Community Studies, 2006. http://erl.canberra.edu.au./public/adt-AUC20070525.122849.
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The impact of the market economy is a significant challenge facing Fijian rural
communities. It is especially challenging for indigenous rural women who are managing
the shift from a subsistence way of living to engagement in money generating activities.
The challenge is more acute amongst disadvantaged populations such as women in rural
communities who lack the resources and the political power to manage these challenges.
The thesis provides a critical ethnographic, action-research study of the daily socioeconomic
experiences of a group of Fijian village women, at this time of significant
change. It provides and in-depth case study of a rural Fijian village located in the upper
reaches of the Sigatoka Valley. The case study focuses on the women�s perspectives
about their daily lived experiences and actions that followed from reflection on these,
drawing out from these implications for indigenous Fijian women�s social progress and
development. Herself, a member of the community, the researcher gathered data by a
combination of participant observation, survey, diaries, focus groups and interviews. The
researcher�s observations and understandings were fed back to the participants in the
form of a workshop with the intention of confirmation and to provide and opportunity for
action based on this reflection. It is argued that the success of managing the influence of
the market economy on the villagers is to create social and political spaces and
opportunities to hear and understand local epistemologies and daily lived experiences,
reflexively.
As an indigenous scholar, the researcher interrogates and deconstructs her own academic
epistemologies and positions as a knowledge broker in order to co-construct new
practices with her people. The research promises to make public Fijian village women�s
knowledge, values, practices and experiences so that they can be understood by local
scholars and local government development officers. Privileging the village women�s
knowledge and bringing it to the core is a significant political act that might form the
basis of proceeding political encounters that women will face in the development process.
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Lyttle, David Michael John. "Democracy, Dictatorship, and Development - European Union Pacific Development Policy in Action: A study of Fijian society since December 2006." Thesis, University of Canterbury. National Centre for Research on Europe, 2009. http://hdl.handle.net/10092/3741.
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In early December 2006, the Fijian military seized power in a coup led by the Armed Forces commander Commodore Frank Bainimarama. It was a coup long expected, and Fiji’s fourth since 1987. Internationally, the response was swift imposing sanctions and removing or delaying international aid programmes. This has a potentially significant impact on Fiji because it is one of the largest per capita recipients of developmental aid funding in the world. However, it may also have little impact because, despite such assistance, the Fijian GDP has stagnated with an average growth of under 1% for the last 20 years. Other developmental indicators are also bleak. This thesis thus examines the dichotomy between Fiji’s ODA and its apparent inability to arrest the decline of the Fijian lifestyle and economy. However, to review all international developmental programmes across all sectors of Fijian society, while maintaining contemporary relevance and coherency, is untenable. Therefore, the thesis will focus on the European Union and its external relations with Fiji. The EU is one of the most influential partners for Fiji and is often overlooked by scholars, allowing this thesis to make a valuable contribution to developmental studies in the pacific region. The thesis has selected and examines four sectors of Fijian society, that of the Economy, Governance, Sugar, and Education sectors. This is because they are the sectors that the European Union is presently devoting most attention. Therefore, these areas best illustrate Fijian reaction to the importance and effectiveness of EU involvement. Overall, the thesis intends to demonstrate both the efficacy and the attitudes of local representatives to foreign aid programmes, and ultimately provide a unique ‘inside looking out' perspective not typical of publications about Fiji.
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Field, Julie S. "The evolution of competition and cooperation in Fijian prehistory archaeological research in the Sigatoka Valley, Fiji /." Thesis, University of Hawaii at Manoa, 2003. http://proquest.umi.com/pqdweb?index=0&did=765031501&SrchMode=1&sid=1&Fmt=2&VInst=PROD&VType=PQD&RQT=309&VName=PQD&TS=1233790945&clientId=23440.
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Halapua, S. "Aspects of the financing of economic development : With special reference to Fiji." Thesis, University of Kent, 1988. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.233359.
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Horscroft, Virginia. "Negotiating on the margin : the political economy of trade policy in the Fiji Islands 1999-2005." Thesis, University of Oxford, 2009. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.670001.
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Fisher, David. "The socio-economic consequences of tourism in Levuka, Fiji." Lincoln University, 2000. http://hdl.handle.net/10182/1284.
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This thesis examines the proposition that the local population at a tourist destination copy the economic behaviour of tourists and learn to give economic value to the same objects and activities that are demonstrated by tourists. Levuka, the old capital of Fiji, served as the case study. It was found that decisions are based on the experiences and the cultural template of which those decisions are a part. There are many acculturating factors involved in the learning process as a subsistance-based economy becomes more monetised. The purchasing habits of tourists have little obvious effect. However, there is evidence that what is of value to tourists and what encourages them to visit the destination are not fully appreciated by many of the host population. Examples of these culturally dissimilar values are externalities such as the physical structures of the built environment and unquantifiable factors such as the ambience of the destination. It is argued that an understanding of the factors that have created cultural rules is necessary if a complete analysis of the effects of tourism is to be undertaken. This can be achieved by considering change as a process and tracing that process by examining the cultural history of the host community. Tourism should be seen as another aspect of change. The response to tourism will then be seen as a new challenge that will be met using the lessons previously learnt and incorporated into the cultural template.
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Guercio, María Belén. "El mercado de renta fija argentino: análisis interno y comparativo." Doctoral thesis, Universitat Rovira i Virgili, 2008. http://hdl.handle.net/10803/8815.
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En los últimos años, la sucesión de crisis financieras en los mercados emergentes ha dado lugar al surgimiento de una gran cantidad de literatura que analiza los determinantes de este tipo de crisis. La vulnerabilidad financiera de estas economías ante perturbaciones internas y externas, es uno de los aspectos que se señalan como claves para explicar el surgimiento de las crisis, así como los mecanismos por los cuales se propagan estas crisis financieras hacia otras economías de similar grado de desarrollo. Varios autores han estudiado el origen de la vulnerabilidad financiera de una economía, y muchos de ellos llegan a la conclusión de que la estructura de emisión de los títulos de deuda pública está íntimamente relacionada con el grado de vulnerabilidad financiera de una economía. A partir de aquí, se desarrolló una serie de trabajos que afirman que, cuando se observa malestar en el mercado, existen títulos cuyas características de emisión provocan variaciones inesperadas, y llevan a aumentar el riesgo de default del gobierno. El objetivo de nuestro trabajo es analizar la evolución del mercado de renta fija argentino, país que sufrió el contagio de las crisis financieras que se desataron en las economías emergentes a lo largo de toda la década del '90, pero que además, sufrió una de las peores crisis de su historia. La evolución del mercado de renta fija argentino se realizó desde dos perspectivas: a partir un análisis interno, y a partir de un análisis comparativo. El análisis interno comprende dos etapas marcando como limite la crisis del 2001. En la primera etapa se describe la evolución del mercado a partir de lo que podemos llamar el nacimiento del mercado de renta fija. La segunda etapa se inicia en el 2005, a partir de la reestructuración de la deuda pública en default.
El análisis comparativo se realizó a través de la descripción del mercado de renta fija de países agrupados por su grado de desarrollo. Para lo cual seleccionamos un grupo de países desarrollados y un grupo de países emergentes, haciendo hincapié en los principales países de Latinoamérica. A partir de los resultados de las comparaciones entre mercados con diferentes grados de desarrollo, pudimos observar que en el mercado argentino se observan una serie de peculiaridades, que no se presentan ni en los mercados desarrollados ni en otros mercados emergentes de la región.Estos resultados junto al análisis interno mencionado anteriormente, se utilizaron para detectar cuales son los problemas actuales con los que se enfrenta el gobierno argentino, a la hora de emitir títulos de deuda, y plantear posibles soluciones con el objetivo de mejorar la calidad de la deuda de este país.
During the last years, the occurrence of several major financial crises in the emerging markets has led a number of studies on the determinants such crises. Financial vulnerability to external and internal shocks, is one of the key variables to explain the emergence of financial crises, as well as the different channels through which shocks could be transmitted toward other economies with similar levels of development, i.e, contagion.Several authors have studied the causes an economies financial vulnerability and many of them conclude that the structure of the issuance of government bonds is closely related to the degree of financial vulnerability of an economy. In this context, a series of works claims that when financial system disruptions appear, there are securities whose emission characteristics cause unexpected changes, and raise the risk of default by the government. The aim of this study is to analyze the evolution of the Argentine bond market, which suffered the contagion of financial crises that were triggered in the emerging economies throughout the decade of the'90s, and which also suffered its own crises, the worst crises in its history.The analysis of the Argentine bond market was conducted from two perspectives: internal and comparative analysis. The internal analysis includes two stages. In the first stage (1990-2001) we describe the evolution of the market from what we call the birth of the fixed income market. The second stage (2005-2008), we describe the restructuring of public debt in default and the new securities issues.
The comparative analysis was carried out through the description of the bond market countries grouped by their level of development. With this purpuse, we select two grups of countries: developed and emerging countries, in the last case, emphasizing the main countries of Latin America. In this context, we observed that in the Argentine market contains a number of specials features which are presented either in developed markets or other emerging markets in the region.These results together with the internal analysis was used to detect the current problems being faced with the Argentine Government, when issuing debt securities, and give to possible solutions with the aim of improving the quality of the debt of this country.
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Sharma-Khushal, Sindra. "Microloans, climate change adaptation, & stated investment behaviour in small island developing states : a Fiji case-study." Thesis, London School of Economics and Political Science (University of London), 2014. http://etheses.lse.ac.uk/3385/.
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Anthropogenic climate change and environmental degradation impacts are no longer a worry for the distant future but a real concern for the present. Small Island Developing States (SIDS) and the poor, who often live by fragile ecosystems, are amongst the most vulnerable and exposed to the impacts of climate change. For these populations, climate related risks exacerbate other stressors and negatively impact livelihoods, security, and health. For low lying SIDS in particular, an additional fear is that climate change endangers their whole way of life, with their nationhood and culture being slowly engulfed by the approaching sea. Whilst the need to adapt is apparent, adaptation funding and motivating people to take up adaptive behaviours is a serious challenge. According to the ODI, financing climate change adaptation in the developing world can cost upwards of US$ 100-450 billion a year. Building adaptive capacity through cost effective solutions such as microloans for adaptive investments can be a promising strategy. By utilising the case study of Fiji, this Thesis attempts to unpack the cognitive drivers of climate change adaptive stated investment behaviour through a survey-based experiment (N=205). The prominent empirical method employed in this thesis was mediation analysis and specifically path analysis whereby the model specified is driven by theory. The choice of this method is justified through a comparison with multinomial logit. In the first instance, the antecedents of climate adaptive stated behaviour and the impact of information on subsequent stated behaviour were assessed through the framework of the Theory of Planned Behaviour. In addition perceptions to climate change in Fiji were explored through guided interviews (N=50). Overall positive attitudes, subjective norms and perceived behavioural control towards conservation and adaptation positively influenced intention to invest in adaptive strategies though intention only significantly influenced subsequent stated behaviour when information on climate change adaptation was provided. Next, the efficacy of incentives in engaging adaptive investments was assessed. The results indicated that the use of ‘green’ incentives (whereby loans are contingent on ecosystem impacts) was most conducive to the choice of adaptive investments over nonadaptive. In addition behavioural intention significantly mediated stated investment behaviour under the green incentive condition – which it is argued may show that such incentives crowd-in internal motives for engaging in environmentally protective behaviours. We also found that ethnicity was a strong positive moderator of behavioural antecedents and subsequent stated investment behaviour. Lastly the moderators of stated behaviour and its antecedents were examined by exploring resource dependence, perceived shocks, and perceived severity of environmental and other issues. Again, it was found that green incentives were successful in engaging people to take up adaptive investments more so then under a dynamic (whereby loans are contingent on repayement) and a no incentive condition. It was found that perceived shocks, and resource dependence could significantly impact cognitive antecedents of behaviour as specified by the Theory of Planned Behaviour and in particular perceptions of behavioural control. Shocks, resource dependence and perceived severity also moderated subsequent stated behaviour, with greater variability between between adaptive and non-adaptive investment choices under the no incentive and dynamic incentive conditions. The latter had a greater probablity of agents choosing non-adaptive over adaptive investments whilst in the former the opposite was true. Overall the results can be useful for adaptation policies, microloan best practice, and behavioural change interventions in SIDS in particular.
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Nair, Veena D. "The Fiji sugar industry in the context of sustainable development : lessons from a local survey /." Title page, table of contents and abstract only, 2000. http://web4.library.adelaide.edu.au/theses/09ENV/09envn158.pdf.
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Schlesinger, Allan. "Estimación de la estructura de tasas de interés reales, de los instrumentos de renta fija en Chile." Tesis, Universidad de Chile, 2006. http://www.repositorio.uchile.cl/handle/2250/108395.
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Seminario de Título Ingeniero Comercial, Mención AdministraciónEl objetivo de esta tesis es diseñar un modelo de estimación de la estructura de tasas de interés. Para ello se utilizaron instrumentos de renta fija emitidos por el Banco Central de Chile para el período 2003-2006. Las observaciones utilizadas en la muestra fueron transacciones de los PRC, CERO y BCU para cada una de sus duraciones de 1 a 10 años durante el período en estudio, teniendo así una base de datos diaria y otra semanal. Se realizó un análisis para determinar el método de estimación de la estructura de tasa de interés que tuviera el mejor ajuste, es decir, que tuviera el menor nivel de error promedio en su estimación. Los resultados observados muestran que el método paramétrico que en promedio presenta un menor nivel de error en la estimación, es el de Nélson y Siegel. Sin embargo, al incluir en la comparación el modelo no paramétrico de Splines, específicamente el de Smoothing Splines, éste presenta una mayor ventaja en ajuste en su estimación que cualquiera de los otros dos métodos paramétricos analizados.
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Chahuayo, Quispe Melanie Scarlet. "Estimación de la curva de Rendimiento Soberana del Perú y la incidencia de factores macro-financieros." Bachelor's thesis, Universidad Peruana de Ciencias Aplicadas (UPC), 2019. http://hdl.handle.net/10757/648862.
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En esta investigación se estima la dinámica de la curva de bonos soberanos del Perú incorporando factores macroeconómicos y financieros. La inclusión de factores financieros tiene una literatura poco estudiada en países emergentes, sin embargo su estudio cobra importancia debido al incremento de la participación de inversores no residentes que abren un canal de transmisión hacia la volatilidad de los mercados globales. La representación de la curva se basa en un modelo dinámico de Nelson Siegel, propuesto por Diebold & Li (2006), mientras que la inclusión de los factores macro-financieros se trabajan en base a la metodología de Tu & Chen (2018) y Dewachter & Iania (2011). Para captar las variaciones y shocks de estos factores en la curva se utiliza las funciones de impulso respuesta de un VAR estructural de orden 1. Los resultados demuestran que tanto los choques macroeconómicos como financieros inciden en el comportamiento de la curva soberana. Siendo los choques financieros más significativos en los tramos cortos de la curva. A través de la descomposición de la varianza se obtiene una incidencia sustancial de los mismos a diferencia de las variables macroeconómicas.This investigation estimates the dynamics of the sovereign bond curve of Peru incorporating macroeconomic and financial factors. The inclusion of financial factors has a poorly studied literature in emerging countries, however its study becomes important due to the increased participation of non-resident investors that open a transmission channel towards the volatility of global markets. The representation of the curve is based on a dynamic model by Nelson Siegel, proposed by Diebold & Li (2006), while the inclusion of macro-financial factors is based on the methodology of Tu & Chen (2018) and Dewachter & Iania (2011). To capture the variations and shocks of these factors in the curve, the impulse response functions of a structural VAR of order 1 are used. The results demonstrate that both macroeconomic and financial shocks affect the behavior of the sovereign curve. Being the most significant financial shocks in the short sections of the curve. Through the decomposition of the variance a substantial incidence of them is obtained, unlike the macroeconomic variables.
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Garstman, García Katherine Alexandra, and Díaz María Catalina Solari. "Base teórica de la estructura de tasa intertemporal a través del modelo multifactorial de Cox-Ingersoll-Ross generado con filtro de Kalman bajo el contexto del mercado de renta fija en Chile." Tesis, Universidad de Chile, 2006. http://repositorio.uchile.cl/handle/2250/108398.
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Este seminario tiene como objetivo resaltar la relevancia que tiene la modelación de la Curva de Rendimientos o Yield Curve, dada su extensa aplicación en los mercados financieros, especialmente en la valoración de activos. Para ello, se muestra y describe, bajo el contexto del Mercado de Renta Fija en Chile, el modelo dinámico descrito por Cox-Ingersoll y Ross en el que se utilizan estimaciones por modelos estado-espacio y Filtro de Kalman. Se resalta dicho modelo dada las ventajas que presenta frente a otros modelos descritos con respecto a la inclusión de no negatividad de la tasa y en el supuesto que la volatilidad no es constante, consiguiendo así una modelación más realista. De esta manera se pretende que dicho marco teórico sea fuente para próximas aplicaciones.
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Qasenivalu, Mosese Tavaga. "The role and impact of services sector on economic growth : an econometric investigation of tourism and air services in Fiji (1968-2006) : a thesis presented in partial fulfillment of the requirements for the degree of Masters of Management in Economics at Massey University, Palmerston North, New Zealand." Massey University, 2008. http://hdl.handle.net/10179/856.
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Empirical studies have established that tourism is a major determinant of economic growth and that international air services have a beneficial effect on the growth and development of an economy. It has also been argued that trade and public enterprise reforms in the service sectors, undertaken to a greater extent in high income countries, have had a positive impact on the sectors performances. This study analyses several hypotheses relating to Fiji’s tourism and air transport service industries. First the study examines the contribution of tourism exports to economic growth in the case of Fiji. Second, the study analyses whether the tourism reform adopted by Fiji in 1999 under the World Trade Organization’s General Agreement on Trade in Services (GATS) has impacted on total tourism export performance. Third, the aviation-service growth nexus is investigated. Lastly, the effect of the aviation public enterprise reform activities on the export performance of air services is evaluated. Using time series annual data from 1968 to 2006, the Auto Regressive Distributed Lag. methodology has been utilized to estimate the contribution of each service sector to Fiji’s total service output. The results show that the tourism is a major determinant of growth in Fiji and that the aviation service-growth hypothesis is also valid for Fiji. The empirical results show that both the trade reforms in tourism and the pro-competitive measures undertaken in the airline industry, amongst other determinants, have not significantly created an impact on the respective export performance of tourism and air services. These findings provide key policy implications in the light of capitalizing on services exports as a major source of growth, particularly in developing island countries such as Fiji and the need to facilitate the strengthening of the market to boost the export performance of tourism and air services.
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Martin, Brenda Michelle. "Tourism as a means of economic and sociocultural adaptation in a Fijian village." 1998. http://catalog.hathitrust.org/api/volumes/oclc/41270337.html.
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Prakash, Nilesh. "The development impact of workers' remittances in Fiji : a thesis presented in partial fulfilment of the requirements for the degree of Master of Arts at Massey University, Palmerston North, New Zealand." 2009. http://hdl.handle.net/10179/1281.
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Remittances by international migrants have become an important source of finance for livelihood development amongst the households in Fiji. This is substantiated by the country’s rising migrant stock as a result of unstable political environment and the increasing economic opportunities for skilled manpower. It has been noted that the flow of remittances to Fiji excelled the amount of other capital inflows such as foreign aid and foreign direct investment and have surpassed commodity export earnings in the recent years. This has made remittances the second largest foreign exchange earner in Fiji after tourism. This thesis examines the developmental impact of workers’ remittances in Fiji, particularly its impact on economic growth, financial sector development, welfare development of the recipient households and an examination of the sustainability of remittance flows. Using an extended neoclassical framework, the empirical evidence finds a positive impact of remittances on economic growth and financial sector development. The welfare development hypothesis is tested using the Household Income and Expenditure Survey (HIES) data. This is analyzed first, by examining the expenditure patterns of the remittance-recipient households, the poverty and inequality effects followed by an assessment of human capital development impact of remittances. The empirical results show that households which receive remittances do not only expend their remittance income on basic consumption but have other substantive uses such as that on education of children, housing and expenditure on durables and nondurables. The poverty and inequality reducing effects of remittances, employ two counterfactual methodologies to estimate first, what the poverty and inequality indicators would be in a scenario where remittances are treated as an exogenous addition to household income. Second, it tests the effect in a scenario without migration and remittances, which treats remittances as a substitute for migrants’ foregone earnings. The results show strong poverty reducing effects of remittances irrespective of the methodology used while the effects on income distribution are not unambiguous. The results obtained for the human capital development analysis indicate the positive role of remittances in providing education opportunities for children in the recipient households. In noting these positive effects of remittances, it must however be acknowledged that the flow of remittances has to be sustainable overtime for households to benefit from human development. From a survey of Fijian-New Zealander migrant households, this study examines the remittance-sustainability debate. The results suggest that a combination of factors such as income of migrants, acquisition of higher education prior to migration and the intention to inherit assets from families in Fiji contribute to continued flow of remittances. These results do not support the hypothesis of remittance decay amongst Fijian migrants in New Zealand but reflect a strong altruistic motive of remittances sent to households in Fiji as insurance against economic shocks. This highlights the importance of development policy in facilitating the flows of migrant remittances for the socio-economic progress of Fiji.
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Lowry, Cynthia A. "A political economy perspective of social cost-benefit analysis : a case study of rural electrification policy in Fiji." Thesis, 1990. http://hdl.handle.net/10125/10118.
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Nand, Sheenal Pritesh. "Financial Literacy and Retirement Planning in the Fiji Islands." Dissertação, 2014. https://repositorio-aberto.up.pt/handle/10216/75427.
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Nand, Sheenal Pritesh. "Financial Literacy and Retirement Planning in the Fiji Islands." Master's thesis, 2014. https://repositorio-aberto.up.pt/handle/10216/75427.
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Slatter, Claire. "The politics of economic restructuring in the Pacific with a case study of Fiji : a thesis presented in fulfillment of the requirements for the degree of Doctor of Philosophy, Department of Social Policy and Social Work, School of Social and Cultural studies, Massey University, Albany Campus, Auckland." 2004. http://hdl.handle.net/10179/1646.
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The subject of this thesis is the politics of economic restructuring, euphemistically termed 'reform' in the Pacific. Although structural adjustment policies are essentially neoliberal economic policies, the project of global economic restructuring, and its supposed end, a global regime of free trade, is a political one in several respects. It involves the wielding of economic power over developing countries by powerful multilateral institutions, developed countries and private corporate entities to such a degree that it is considered by some to represent the disciplining/subjugating and dis-empowering of developing states. It is supported by a successfully propagated ideology that combines economic growth theories (held to be infallible), 'good governance' rhetoric (with which no-one can reasonably disagree), and new notions of equality and 'non-discrimination' - the 'level playing field' and 'national treatment, in WTO parlance (which have been enshrined in enforceable global trade rules). It entails redefining the role of the state, transferring public ownership of assets to private hands, and removing subsidies that protect domestic industries and jobs, all of which are strongly contested. Successfully implementing 'reform' is widely acknowledged to require not only 'reform champions' but also 'ownership', and thus broad acceptance and legitimacy, yet commitments to restructuring are often made by government ministers without reference at all to national parliaments. National economic summits are used to rubber stamp or legitimate policies in a fait accompli. The thesis begins by situating the global regime of structural adjustment within the political context of North-South relations in the 1970s, the debt crisis of the early 1980s, and the collapse of socialist regimes and consequent discrediting of the socialist economic model and other variants of state-led development. It shows the key role of the World Bank in advocating the neoliberal model and setting the development aid agenda, and its abdication of this lead role after 1995 in favour of the World Trade Organisation and its agenda of global trade liberalisation. The thesis then examines the origins, agents and interests behind structural reform in the island states of the Pacific before focusing on how a regional approach to achieving regional wide economic restructuring and trade liberalisation is being taken, using a regional political organisation of Pacific Island states (The Pacific Islands Forum), and regional free trade agreements. It then illustrates the path of economic restructuring embarked on by Fiji following the 1987 coups, examines the implementation of 'economic reform' concurrently with policies to advance the interests of indigenous Fijians, and discusses some of the less acknowledged dimensions of reform.
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Lyttle, David M. J. "Democracy, dictatorship and development : European Union Pacific development policy in action : a study of Fijian society since December 2006 : a thesis submitted in partial fulfilment of the requirements for the degree of Master of Arts in European Studies in the University of Canterbury /." 2009. http://hdl.handle.net/10092/3741.
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Lee, Meng-Shan, and 李孟珊. "Black Stones in the Black Stone (Naganivatu)-the contemporary social and economic aspects of women’s lives in Fiji." Thesis, 2012. http://ndltd.ncl.edu.tw/handle/29802188329604032517.
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Naganivatu, Viti Levu, is a village of 53 households along the downstream Rewa River. The village economy is mainly based on women''s task, that is, they dive for freshwater mussels (kai) and sell out in the markets. Men plant taros, cassavas, and sweet potatoes mainly for subsistence rather than sale. In this research, I describe the process and ways of collecting and selling the kai. Through this activity, I analyze the economic aspects of social lives and interactions between women. Then, I present the importance and the meaning of cash in the contemporary Fijian village lives. Also, I examine how the special production, namely collecting the kai, and its economic contributions leave impacts on traditional gender relations. In addition, women’s contributions and their ways of manipulating the cash are recognized when they meet collective needs, exchanges, and social obligations of kinships. In sum, women’s economic activity leaves them space to challenge the traditional hierarchical order, but at the same time, women’s contribution and participation to the social gathering and rituals also reinforce the hierarchical society.
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Nair, Veena D. (Veena Devi). "The Fiji sugar industry in the context of sustainable development : lessons from a local survey." 2000. http://web4.library.adelaide.edu.au/theses/09ENV/09envn158.pdf.
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Bibliography: leaves 92-98. Considers the issue of achieving sustainable development in a society operating under the constraints of poverty, lack of environmental awareness and political instability.