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Tonga Slips Past Fiji in World Bank Business Report

Fiji has been out-classed by Tonga in the annual World Bank & IFC Doing Business Report 2010. Although we have been ranked at 54 after Tonga at 52 in the ease of doing business category, we have scored poorly in th…
Australians have Pacific Islanders at Heart

The following information was released by the office of the Parliamentary Secretary for Pacific Island Affairs of Australia:The Australian Institute of International Affairs provides an important forum for debate and d…
Corrupt illegal Fiji Officials attend ADB/OECD Seminar

Strengthening the independence and accountability of anti-corruption agencies is key to poverty reduction and sustainable development in the Asia and Pacific region, participants at an anti-corruption seminar in Manila h…
Enter the new International Super-Currency

Legions of pundits have argued that the dollar's status as an international currency has been damaged by the great credit crisis of 2007-9--and not a few have argued that the injury may prove fatal. The crisis certainly…
India Purchase $10bn IMF Bond - RBF Hold their Breath in Hope

WASHINGTON: The International Monetary Fund on Saturday welcomed India’s commitment to buy $10 billion worth of IMF bonds.“I welcome the announcement by India of its intention to support the Fund’s lending capacity thr…
Impoverishing our People and missed Opportunities

Ok Let us see what all the kufuffle is about. We get an "emergency loan" of $17.5 from ADB supposedly to build infrastructure damaged by the floods, which we all know will not be used for that in any event.Then we beg M…
The UN or BRIC's: A Revolution or Mirage?

It is with too much ease that we all sometimes use the word 'revolution'. Because all too often the change being championed is one that too many others simply do not notice. But that isn't the case here: the change push…
World Bank Financing the Talibans

It isn't just drugs. Extortion, kidnapping for ransom, and protection rackets all help fund the growing Afghan insurgency. Why crime pays big-time for the Taliban.To understand why America and its allies are losing the w…
Winning is Getting what you Want and ANZAC surely will

This is it, it has been shared for all to know about the emergence of a one world government, in our bi-polar world and, the necessity to simplify and consolidate all free trade agreements, including the Trans-Pac…
G20, IMF & World Bank Out of Touch

A decade ago, in response to the Asian and Russian economic crises, the finance ministers of the seven biggest economies, the G7, created a new organisation, the G20. For the next nine years the influence of the G20 gre…