12-Jun-2017
Matangi Tonga
The PACER-Plus model of development is based on an increasingly questionable form of economics which naively imagines that national economies will adapt automatically to enhanced price signals from liberalised international markets from which ’distortions’ are removed.
31-May-2017
Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Trade, New Zealand
As released by the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Trade of New Zealand
9-May-2017
Sunday Guardian Live
One of Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s most insightful, if low key, foreign policy initiatives was to work to deepen relations with more than a dozen island nations of Oceania.
24-Apr-2017
Asia Pacific Report
There were promises that the agreement would be for the benefit of the Pacific. But it has been shaped more by the advantages to Australia and New Zealand exporters than the aspirations of the Pacific’s people.
28-Nov-2016
Asia Pacific Report
Indonesia has proposed the setting up of a new trade bloc that could counterbalance the dominance of the United States and China.
31-Aug-2016
Asia Pacific Report
The negotiations are said to offer an opportunity to help Pacific Islands Forum countries benefit from enhanced regional trade and economic integration.
22-Aug-2016
Radio New Zealand
A meeting on Pacific labour mobility under the PACER Plus trade deal has a glaring omission – the voices of organised labour.