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Policy Arena: Small Island Developing States: Development Challenges

This Policy Arena examines some of the development challenges faced by SIDS. It brings together a collection of papers arising from the UNU-WIDER project Fragility and Development. These investigations were presented at the UNU-WIDER project meeting held in Lautaka, Fiji in December 2006. The Policy Arena contains four studies that look, respectively, at various aspects of trade, foreign direct investment, aid and remittances, and migration, focusing on countries in the Pacific and the Caribbean.
Publisher:
Wiley-Blackwell
Journal:
Journal of International Development
Volume:
20(4)
Title:
Policy Arena: Small Island Developing States: Development Challenges
Authors:
Mark McGillivray, Wim Naudé and Amelia Santos-Paulino
Publication date:
May 2008
Copyright holder:
© John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.
Copyright year:
2008
Keywords:
small islands, fragility, transport cost, FDI, aid, remittances, migration
JEL:
F14, F2, F35, F43, O19, O23, O57, R49
Project:
Fragility and Development
Sponsor:
UNU-WIDER gratefully acknowledges the financial contributions to the project by The Australian Agency for International Development (AusAID), the Finnish Ministry for Foreign Affairs, and the UK Department for International Development—DFID.
Format:
online and printed copies