As founder and creative director, Jessica Cassell’s ambition for Papua New Guinea’s Bilum & Bilas is for the venture to be well-known internationally as “a brand that has best practice around in working with artisans and working with cultural creative industries.”
In 2020 as shops and markets all over the world were forced to close due to the coronavirus, people shopped from home,
South Pacific Business Development founder, Greg Casagrande is a “serial social entrepreneur”, founding not only the SPBD microfinance network 20 years ago,
“[For] us women, there are always ways to earn money,” says Susana Silikiwai, a SPBD member from Kalokolevu village on Viti Levu.
It is a season of surveys across the Pacific. Governments, international organisations, industry bodies and chambers of commerce are surveying the private
