Assessment: South Pacific Regional Architecture (source docs)

Useful Sources.

Economic

Institute for International Trade, Research Study on the Benefits, Challenges and Ways Forward for PACER Plus, Adelaide: University of Adelaide, 2008.

OxfamNZ/Oxfam Australia, “PACER Plus and its Alternatives: Which Way for Trade and Development in the Pacific?” Oxfam Briefing Paper 2009 [Link to document].

Alan Winters and Pedro Martins “When Comparative Advantage is not Enough: Business Costs in Small Remote Economies”, World Trade Review, 3 (2004): 347-83.

Islands Asia business link, [Link to Entity]

Security

Pacific Island Chiefs of Police (PICP) web site: picp.org [Link to source page].

Other Important Sources

The Pacific Islands Region in the Post-Cold War Order – Some Thoughts From A Decade Later

Secretariat of the Pacific Regional Environment Programme – SPREP’s Structure [Link to source webpage].

Environmental Treaties and Resource Indicators (ENTRI) – Full Text File – Antarctic Cooperative Research Centre (ACRC) [Link to source document].

FR 2007 Biblio Organisations sociales Pacifique (pdf)

Melanesian Spearhead Group (MSG) Free Trade Agreement (pdf)

Our Near Abroad – Australia and Pacific Islands Regionalism, Australian Strategic Policy Institute

A Brief Review of Major Fishing Areas in the Pacific Ocean – Fisheries and Aquaculture Department (USA) [Link to source webpage].

Toward a New Pacific Regionalism – An Asian Development Bank–Commonwealth Secretariat Joint Report to the Pacific Islands Forum Secretariat

South Pacific Regional Trade and Economic Cooperation Agreement [SPARTECA]