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- Title
Towards Free Trade in the Pacific? The Genesis of the ‘Kava-Biscuit War’ between Fiji and Vanuatu.
- Authors
CONNELL, JOHN
- Abstract
Contemporary movements towards trade liberalisation have influenced economic development in Pacific island states, where opportunities for growth have always been restricted. The new free trade, centred on comparative advantage, is especially challenging for countries producing sugar, where diversification is difficult, and for the smallest states where trade options have always been limited. New regional trade agreements have been introduced in the Pacific as a step towards global free trade, but have emphasised trade rivalry and conflict, characterised by the ‘kava-biscuit war’ between Fiji and Vanuatu, rather than complementary trade and cooperation. Movement towards free trade poses acute problems for island states, yet international agreements have not recognised their particular disadvantages, and continue to stress benefits that are nowhere apparent in the Pacific.
- Subjects
PACIFIC Area; FREE trade; COMMERCIAL policy; COMMERCIAL treaties; ECONOMIC development
- Publication
Geographical Research, 2007, Vol 45, Issue 1, p1
- ISSN
1745-5863
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1111/j.1745-5871.2007.00425.x