Pacific Liaison and Coordination Office

The Pacific Private Sector Policy Briefs Series analyzes binding constraints to growth in the Pacific Island region. Each brief provides a summary of the issues and proposes solutions to stakeholders and decision makers. Topics covered include gaining access to finance, managing state-owned enterprises, contracting out through public-private partnerships, and improving the commercial legal framework in Pacific Island economies.

The Pacific Strategy 2005 - 2009 provides a framework for ADB operations in its 14 Pacific developing member countries (PDMCs) and for ADB support to Pacific regional cooperation.

The Pacific Strategy 2005 - 2009 provides a framework for ADB operations in its 14 Pacific developing member countries (PDMCs) and for ADB support to Pacific regional cooperation.

Juumemmej 2005 reports on the major social and economic issues that underlie and affect the aspirations of the Marshallese people, paying particular attention to how the Republic of the Marshall Islands can alleviate poverty and hardship among the least fortunate of its citizens.

This report analyses issues and possibilities for a new Pacific regionalism, in the context of the commitment of Pacific Island Forum leaders to create a Pacific Plan for Strengthening Regional Cooperation and Integration. The report discusses different objectives for regionalism (including provision of services and market integration) and notes that varied approaches and sub-regional groupings will be appropriate to meet different objectives. Initial assessments of possible regional initiatives are presented under the proposed four pillars of the Pacific Plan. The report also discusses the political economy issues for creating a new Pacific regionalism.

This report analyses the trusts funds of the Pacific and the role they play in foreign assistance, public finance, and economic development. The report outlines basic principles, technical issues, detailed cases, and trust investment management issues.

This report results from the implementation of ADB's governance policy in the Pacific region. It provides an overview of governance issues, strengths, and weaknesses in ADB's Pacific developing member countries (PDMCs); and it aims to improve the understanding of the governance environment, both in individual countries and the region as a whole, and as the basis for a more focused policy dialogue with PDMC governments on areas where development partners, and ADB in particular, can help make development assistance more effective.