Islands Apart: Leadership Studies in Two Island States

ISLANDS AND SMALL STATES INSTITUTE Occasional Papers on Islands and Small States SMALL ISLAND ECONOMIES: CARIBBEAN VERSUS PACIFIC

After a review of the small island economy literature, this study compares the average performance of 16 Caribbean versus 15 mainly Pacific islands with three from the Indian Ocean. Mean difference analysis is employed across 22 socio-economic and demographic variables. Results confirm previous research. The Caribbean outperforms the Pacific with higher per capita GDP and life expectancy and lo...

Teasing Apart Two Trees

A widely-studied model for generating binary sequences is to ‘evolve’ them on a tree according to a symmetric Markov process. We show that under this model distinguishing the true (model) tree from a false one is substantially “easier” (in terms of the sequence length needed) than determining the true tree. The key tool is a new and tight Ramsey-type result for binary trees.

Financing for universal health coverage in small island states: evidence from the Fiji Islands

BACKGROUND Universal health coverage (UHC) is critical to global poverty alleviation and equity of health systems. Many low-income and middle-income countries, including small island states in the Pacific, have committed to UHC and reforming their health financing systems to better align with UHC goals. This study provides the first comprehensive evidence on equity of the health financing syste...

Two-fluid magnetic island dynamics in slab geometry: I - Isolated islands

A set of reduced, 2-D, two-fluid, drift-MHD (magnetohydrodynamical) equations is derived. Using these equations, a complete and fully selfconsistent solution is obtained for an isolated magnetic island propagating through a slab plasma with uniform but different ion and electron fluid velocities. The ion and electron fluid flow profiles around the island are uniquely determined, and are everywh...

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