Capacity Constraints and Public Financial Management in Small Pacific Island Countries

Lessons from principal-agent theory for public expenditure management in Pacific island countries

Pacific Economic Bulletin Volume 21 Number 2 2006 © Asia Pacific Press The paper discusses how the principal-agent theory of economics may provide a suitable analytical framework and interesting lessons for the targeting of public expenditure management reforms in Pacific island economies. Elisabeth Paul is FNRS Research Fellow, University of Liège. Lessons from principal-agent theory for publi...

Solid Waste Management Challenges in Pacific Island Countries

Public Financial ManageMent ReFoRMs in Post-conFlict countRies synthesis RePoRt

Health care financing and health outcomes in Pacific Island countries.

This paper provides empirical evidence on the relationship between per capita public health expenditure and three measures of health outcomes (infant and under-five mortality rates and crude death rates) using cross-country data from seven Pacific Island countries for selected years between 1990 and 2002. The results of the fixed-effects estimation procedure, correcting for AR(1) errors, provid...

Health Research Systems in Six Pacific Island Countries and Territories

Alec J. Ekeroma1*, Sharon Biribo2, Josephine Herman3, Andrew Hill4 and Tim Kenealy4 *1Pacific Women’s Health Research Unit, South Auckland Clinical Campus, University of Auckland, Middlemore Hospital, Auckland, New Zealand 2Acting Director Research, Research Unit, Office of the Dean, College of Medicine, Nursing & Health Sciences, Fiji National University, Suva, Fiji 3Epidemiology and Biostatis...