Pacific News | Kiribati’s Unique Path to Graduating From Least Developed Country Status

October 24, 2019

In the last issue of Pacific Outlook, we examined the category of Least Developed Country (LDC) created by the United Nations. Of the 47 countries currently listed...

Pacific News | Samoa Becomes the First Small Pacific Island Country to Ratify PACER-PLUS

October 24, 2019

PACER-Plus, an agreement developed out of PACER (Pacific Agreement on Closer Economic Relations), is a comprehensive free trade agreement conforming to World Trade...

Pacific News | Nuclear Legacy Continues to Loom Over the Marshall Islands

July 4, 2019

The Marshall Islands consist of 29 atolls and 5 isolated islands in the North Pacific Ocean, about halfway between Hawaii and Australia. From 1946 to 1958, the...

Pacific News | Least Developed Country Status and the South Pacific

July 3, 2019

Based largely on the experiences of African countries, the category of Least Developed Country (LDC), was created by the United Nations as a recognition that...

Pacific News | Oil Spill in the Solomons is an Ecological Disaster

April 18, 2019

For over a month, a cargo ship has been leaking heavy fuel oil into the waters of Rennell Island’s Kangava Bay in the South Pacific, home of the world’s...

Pacific News | Renaming the Cook Islands

April 18, 2019

The Cook Islands is mulling a change of its colonial-era name to a new one that reflects its indigenous Polynesian identity. The move follows calls by indigenous...

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