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| Other authors / contributors: | International Monetary Fund.
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| ISBN: | 9781475536010
1475536011
1475510268
9781475510263
1475560281
9781475560282
9781475510263
9781475560282
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| Digital file characteristics: | data file
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| Notes: | Title from PDF title page (IMF Web site, viewed Sept. 11, 2012).
"Office of the Executive Director for Asia and the Pacific (OEDAU)."
"September 2012."
Includes bibliographical references.
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| Summary: | This paper seeks to document key characteristics of small island states in the Pacific. It restricts itself to a limited number of indicators which are macro-orientated - population, fertility of land, ability to tap into economies of scale, income, and geographic isolation. It leaves aside equally important but more micro-orientated variables and development indicators. We show that small island states in the Pacific are different from countries in other regional groupings in that they are extremely isolated and have limited scope to tap economies of scale due to small populations. They often have little arable land. There is empirical evidence to suggest that these factors are related to income growth.
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