Deeper integration with Australia and New Zealand?: Potential gains for Pacific island countries

The seven million inhabitants of the Pacific island countries (5 million of whom are accounted for by Papua New Guinea alone) are scattered in more than a thousand islands over an area of ocean several times the size of Europe. Although the common label of ‘small vulnerable states’ suggests a degree...

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1. Verfasser:	Robert Scollay
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Zusammenfassung:	The seven million inhabitants of the Pacific island countries (5 million of whom are accounted for by Papua New Guinea alone) are scattered in more than a thousand islands over an area of ocean several times the size of Europe. Although the common label of ‘small vulnerable states’ suggests a degree of homogeneity, the Pacific island countries in fact exhibit great diversity in their economic characteristics. Dimensions of this diversity include population levels (from 5 million in Papua New Guinea to microstates with a few thousand inhabitants such as Niue, Nauru and Tuvalu); income levels (from over US$7500 per head