Page 4 - Islands Business May 2023

May Vol 49 No 5

CONTENTS

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5 Editor’s Note 27 Widen tax base, spend more efficiently
6 Briefs World Bank’s advice to 9 Pacific economies

8 Whispers 30 ICT: Digitising without data
Pacific policy makers need support
10 French Polynesia: Independence party victory
We interview President Moetai Brotherson 32 ICT: Cyber Food Fiji
From near defeat to survival
15 Aviation: ASPA’s new broom
34 ICT: Not so innocent bystanders
17 Aviation: Route map Addressing online violence and harassment
Updates from the region’s airlines
38 Opinion: Pacific regionalism- to hell with
21 Aviation: Fiji Airways’ A350-degree turn drowning
26 Aviation 42 Movers and Shakers
Pacific Government-owned airlines: throwing
good money after bad? 44 Maimarosia inspires youth through
indigenous Solomons music

Cover photo: Getty Images

American Samoa ............US$10.00 French Polynesia .............. CPF500 New Caledonia ................ CPF500 Samoa ............................T12.00
French Polynesia .............. CPF500
Australia ....................... AU$6.00
Solomon Islands ............. SL$30.00
Australia ......................AU$10.00 Guam..........................US$10.00 New Caledonia ................ CPF500 Samoa ............................T10.00
New Zealand .................NZ$10.00
Cook Islands ................... NZ$6.00
Hawaii ......................... US$6.00
Niue ...........................NZ$10.00
Tonga .............................P10.00
CNMI ..........................US$10.00 Hawaii ........................US$10.00 New Zealand .................. NZ$6.00 Solomon Islands ............. SL$20.00
Federated States of Micronesia ......
Kiribati ......................... AU$6.00
Cook Islands ..................NZ$10.00 Kiribati ........................AU$10.00 Niue ............................ NZ$6.00 Tonga .............................P10.00
Palau ..........................US$10.00
Tuvalu .........................AU$10.00
US$6.00
Marshall Islands .............. US$6.00
FSM ............................US$10.00 Marshall Islands .............US$10.00 Palau ........................... US$6.00 Tuvalu .......................... AU$6.00
Vanuatu ........................ Vatu500
Papua New Guinea .............K15.00
Fiji Islands.......................F$4.35
Nauru .......................... AU$6.00
Fiji Islands.......................F$8.00 Nauru .........................AU$10.00 Papua New Guinea .............K10.00 Vanuatu ........................ Vatu500
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