Pacific Economic Bulletin
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The Pacific Economic Bulletin was a peer-reviewed research publication covering issues relating to economics, governance and policymaking in the Pacific Islands and Papua New Guinea. Three issues were published each year.
The Pacific Economic Bulletin ceased with vol. 25:1 in 2010 and was incorporated into the new journal, Asia and the Pacific Policy Studies.
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Item type: Item , Access status: Metadata only , Agriculture as Economic Shock Absorber: Indonesia(Australian National University, 1999) Warr, PeterItem type: Item , Access status: Embargo , Indonesian Economic Policies and Performance, 1960-1998(Blackwell Publishing Ltd, 1999) Fane, GeorgeThere are few other countries, if any, in which the variations in performance, policy and external conditions have been as wide as those which have occurred in Indonesia since the 1960s. Oil prices have boomed and collapsed; macroeconomic policy has varied between conservative orthodoxy and hyperinflation; trade policy has varied between strong protectionism and relative openness; finally, Indonesia has been the most severely affected of all the countries hit by the Asian crisis which began in 1997. This paper summarises Indonesia's economic policies and growth performance since the 1960s, and tries to find out if performance has varied systematically with policy. Section 2 provides an overview of Indonesian economic development since 1960, the first year for which national income estimates were published by the Indonesian Central Bureau of Statistics (BPS: Biro Pusat Statistik) and a year which roughly corresponds to the intensification of the inflationary and inward-looking policies adopted in the latter part of the Sukarno era. In sub-section 3a the historical summary in Section 2 is used to divide the entire period since 1960 into four policy sub-periods; in sub-section 3b growth rates are compared between these sub-periods, without making any allowance for non-policy effects on growth. Sub-section 3c attempts to make rough corrections for the effects of the oil boom and of the tendency for poorer countries to grow faster than richer ones. Section 4 summarises the findings on the association between policies and performance.Item type: Item , Access status: Embargo , Development Lessons For East Timor(Routledge, Taylor & Francis Group, 1999) Duncan, RonaldItem type: Item , Access status: Metadata only , Evaluating the effect of the electoral system in post-coup Fiji(Asia Pacific Press, 2001) Reilly, BenjaminItem type: Item , Access status: Metadata only , New Caledonia: problems and promises- a survey(Asia Pacific Press, 2001) De Fontenay, PatrickThis survey points to the heavy dependence of New Caledonia on French aid and nickel mining and processing. The main challenges are the diversification of production while minimising disruptions to traditional ways of life, reduction of the role of government, and improvement in the labour market and international competitiveness more generally.Item type: Item , Access status: Metadata only , Restorative Justice and Therapeutic Jurisprudence(West Group, 2002) Braithwaite, JohnItem type: Item , Access status: Metadata only , Conditions and prospects for sustaining China's economic growth(Asia Pacific Press, 2002) Song, Ligang; Ligang SongItem type: Item , Access status: Metadata only , Reflections on the new institutional economics(Asia Pacific Press, 2002) Garnaut, Ross; Ross GarnautItem type: Item , Access status: Metadata only , Overview(Asia Pacific Press, 2002) Garnaut, Ross; GarnautItem type: Item , Access status: Metadata only , Capital flight from Papua New Guinea(Asia Pacific Press, 2002) Curtin, TimothyThis paper provides an updated assessment of capital flight from Papua New Guinea. It reviews methods of measuring capital flight and suggests that balance of payments data on capital flows give a more revealing picture than the residuals method used by most authors. A case study of the Lihir gold mining project, using recent data on equity flows, suggests that most apparent capital flight from Papua New Guinea is the result of the continuous depreciation of the kina since 1994.Item type: Item , Access status: Metadata only , China, the WTO and East Asian economic diplomacy(Asia Pacific Press, 2002) Drysdale, Peter; Peter Drysdale; Kenichi IshigakiItem type: Item , Access status: Metadata only , New issues in East Asian economic integration(Asia Pacific Press, 2002) Drysdale, Peter; Ishigaki, Kenichi; Peter Drysdale; Kenichi IshigakiItem type: Item , Access status: Metadata only , Budgeting in a weak state: the new Somare governments first attempt(Asia Pacific Press, 2002) Curtin, TimothyItem type: Item , Access status: Embargo , Anti-dumping measures: the case of Indonesian exports during the Crisis(Routledge, Taylor & Francis Group, 1999) Trewin, Ray; Bosworth, MItem type: Item , Access status: Metadata only , The WTO review of Solomon Islands(Asia Pacific Press, 1999) Bosworth, MItem type: Item , Access status: Embargo , Some Obscurities in Indonesias New National Accounts(Routledge, Taylor & Francis Group, 1999) van der Eng, PierreIndonesia's national accounts are subject to regular revisions. Some of these revisions have resulted in different estimates of GDP on both the output and the expenditure side of the economy in overlapping years. Unfortunately, the explanations accompanying the published national accounts make it difficult to understand the exact reasons why this is so. This article explores the possible explanations. It also discusses the consequences of changes to the base year used in the calculation of constant price series. The paper draws attention to several new national accounting initiatives developed at Indonesia's Central Statistics Agency that underscore the Agency's advanced professionalism in national accounting. It concludes with a call for greater openness in explaining national accounting procedures.Item type: Item , Access status: Metadata only , Economic Reforms and Convergence of Incomes across Indian States: benefits for the poor(Konark Publishers, 2000) Kalirajan, K P; Shand, Rick; Bhide, Shashanka; Shubhashis Gangopadhyay; Wilima WadhwaItem type: Item , Access status: Metadata only , PNG Economic Survey: A Scorecard for the Morauta(Asia Pacific Press, 2001) Duncan, RonaldItem type: Item , Access status: Metadata only , The Financial Sector in Vanuatu: reform and new challenges(Asia Pacific Press, 2000) De Fontenay, PatrickItem type: Item , Access status: Metadata only , Should Pacific Island nations adopt the Australian dollar?(Asia Pacific Press, 2000) De Brouwer, Gordon