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  1. Library Resource
    Reports & Research
    Training Resources & Tools
    December, 2011
    Solomon Islands, Eastern Asia, Oceania

    International aid flows are equivalent to almost half of Solomon Islands' economy, making it one of the most aid-dependent countries in the world. Around US$250 million of non-military aid enters the country, but only 15-20 percent of this amount is spent locally through local procurement or staff expenditure. Solomon Islands are currently highly reliant on logging for export receipts, Government revenues, and employment. But existing stocks of natural forest logs are expected to be entirely exhausted by 2014.

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    Leasing on Epi Island, Vanuatu

    Reports & Research
    Training Resources & Tools
    September, 2010
    Vanuatu, Eastern Asia, Oceania

    This study of 23 leases over land on the island of Epi is the first of the Jastis Blong Evriwan (JBE) research activities to examine land and natural resource management (L&NRM) and access to justice on particular Vanuatu islands. The research will be repeated on the island of Tanna. To inform the broader context of land leasing in Vanuatu, JBE, in collaboration with the government of Vanuatu, has begun collecting and analyzing government land-leasing data.

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    Vanuatu

    Reports & Research
    Policy Papers & Briefs
    December, 2012
    Vanuatu, Eastern Asia, Oceania

    Doing business sheds light on how easy or difficult it is for a local entrepreneur to open and run a small to medium-size business when complying with relevant regulations. It measures and tracks changes in regulations affecting 10 areas in the life cycle of a business: starting a business, dealing with construction permits, getting electricity, registering property, getting credit, protecting investors, paying taxes, trading across borders, enforcing contracts and resolving insolvency.

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    Papua New Guinea

    Reports & Research
    Policy Papers & Briefs
    December, 2012
    Papua New Guinea, Eastern Asia, Oceania

    Doing business sheds light on how easy or difficult it is for a local entrepreneur to open and run a small to medium-size business when complying with relevant regulations. It measures and tracks changes in regulations affecting 10 areas in the life cycle of a business: starting a business, dealing with construction permits, getting electricity, registering property, getting credit, protecting investors, paying taxes, trading across borders, enforcing contracts and resolving insolvency.

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    Vanuatu

    Reports & Research
    Policy Papers & Briefs
    October, 2012
    Vanuatu, Eastern Asia, Oceania

    This tenth edition of Doing Business sheds light on how easy or difficult it is for a local entrepreneur to open and run a small to medium-size business when complying with relevant regulations. It measures and tracks changes in regulations affecting eleven areas in the life cycle of a business: starting a business, dealing with construction permits, getting electricity, registering property, getting credit, protecting investors, paying taxes, trading across borders, enforcing contracts, resolving insolvency and employing workers.

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    Land Leasing on Tanna Island, Vanuatu

    Reports & Research
    Policy Papers & Briefs
    May, 2012
    Vanuatu, Eastern Asia, Oceania

    The body of this report consists of five sections. Section one is an introduction to the JBE program and the context for the lease research on Tanna. Section two provides a profile of some of the relevant historical and economic features of the island and aspects related to the structure of governance and civil society organization. This is followed in section three by a summary of key findings regarding the 64 leases studied on Tanna.

  7. Library Resource
    Reports & Research
    Policy Papers & Briefs
    February, 2011
    Solomon Islands, Eastern Asia, Oceania

    In countries where a large proportion of the total land area is held customarily, reform questions around land and development often tend to focus on the customary estate. Evidence from Solomon Islands suggests that a focus on public land holdings, even when they are relatively small in land area, can yield outsized benefits. Publicly owned land regularly includes economically valuable land and urban land on which development pressure is high. In Solomon Islands, as much as 10 percent of Gross Domestic Product (GDP) may be affected by how effectively urban public land is governed.

  8. Library Resource
    Reports & Research
    Policy Papers & Briefs
    April, 2010
    Solomon Islands, Eastern Asia, Oceania

    This paper provides a brief overview of the intersection of state and customary laws governing land in peri-urban settlements around Honiara, focusing on their impact upon landowners, particularly women landowners. It suggests that the intersection of customary and state legal systems allows a small number of individuals, predominantly men, to solidify their control over customary land. This has occurred to the detriment of many landowners, who have often found themselves excluded from both decision-making processes and the distribution of financial benefits from the use of land.

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    Disaster Risk Financing and Insurance

    Reports & Research
    Training Resources & Tools
    Policy Papers & Briefs
    February, 2015
    Solomon Islands, Eastern Asia, Oceania

    This report aims to build understanding of the existing disaster risk financing and insurance (DRFI) tools in use in the Solomon Islands and to identify gaps where engagement could further develop financial resilience. It also aims to encourage peer exchange of regional knowledge, specifically by encouraging dialogue on past experiences, lessons learned, optimal use of these financial tools, and the effect these tools may have on the execution of post-disaster funds.

  10. Library Resource
    August, 2013
    Fiji

    The Review suggests the outlines of an
    architecture for microfinance in Fiji in which the National
    Centre for Small and Micro-Enterprise Development (NCSMED),
    as envisioned by the Government of Fiji, is the primary
    source of funding and technical assistance for microfinance
    institutions. But to assure a sound financial sector
    building approach to policy it is desirable that the Royal
    Bank of Fiji also have substantial input. The Review also

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