Small Island States in the Pacific : the Tyranny of Distance? /

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Author / Creator:	Becker, Chris, 1970-
Imprint:	[Washington, D.C.] : International Monetary Fund, ©2012.
Description:	1 online resource (28 pages).
Language:	English
Series:	IMF working paper ; WP/12/223 IMF working paper ; WP/12/223.
Subject:	States, Small -- Economic conditions. Economic history. States, Small -- Economic conditions. Islands of the Pacific -- Economic conditions. Developing island countries -- Economic conditions. Developing island countries. Pacific Ocean -- Islands of the Pacific. Electronic books.
Format:	E-Resource Book
URL for this record:	http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/11142955

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Other authors / contributors:	International Monetary Fund.
ISBN:	9781475536010 1475536011 1475510268 9781475510263 1475560281 9781475560282 9781475510263 9781475560282
Digital file characteristics:	data file
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.
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.

Table of Contents:

Cover; Abstract; Contents; I. Introduction; II. Defining Small States by population; III. Lacking Economies of Scale; A. Fixed costs spread over narrow base; B. Scope for regional cooperation; IV. Income per capita; V. Scope for Import substitution through agriculture; VI. Geographic Isolation; VII. Vulnerability ranking; A. Ranking small states; B. Empirical link to real economic outcomes; VIII. Concluding remarks; Appendix I. Country Classifications and Data; Appendix II. Data Sources and Metadata; References.

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