"Volume 2021 (2021): Issue 208 (Sep 2021): Vanuatu: Article IV Consultation -Press Release; Staff Report; and Statement by the Executive Director for Vanuatu" published on 14 Sep International Monetary Fund.

BACKGROUND Intentional injury presents a threat to the physical and psychological well being of young people, especially in developing countries, which carry the greatest part of the global injury burden. While the importance of this problem is recognized, there are limited population data in low and middle income countries that can guide public health action. The present study investigates the...

Vanuatu since 1989 as a means of maintaining the forest environment and providing for rural development. This effort, along with others in Papua New Guinea and the Solomon Islands, has encountered some difficulties associated with the introduction of new technologies and approaches. However, the experience in Vanuatu indicates that small sawmills can be successful business ventures and help to ...

1 UMR ENTROPIE Ecologie Marine Tropicale des Océans Pacifique et Indien, Institut de Recherche pour le Développement (IRD), Sète, France, 2 UMR ESPACE-DEV Espace Pour le Développement, Institut de Recherche pour le Développement (IRD), Montpellier, France, 3 Vanuatu Fisheries Department, Port-Vila, Vanuatu, 4 Sea Around Us, Institute for the Oceans and Fisheries, University of British Columbia,...

One island group suggested to be an exception to the species!area relationship is the Vanuatu Archipelago, a group of 13 large and 80 small islands in the southwest Pacific Ocean. To test the hypothesis that the lizard fauna of the Vanuatu Archipelago does not meet the predictions of the species!area relationship, and thus is depauperate, we compare diversity among several island groups in the ...

The current study used a novel methodology based on multivocal ethnography to assess the relations between conformity and evaluations of intelligence and good behavior among Western (U.S.) and non-Western (Ni-Vanuatu) children (6- to 11-year-olds) and adolescents (13- to 17-year-olds; N = 256). Previous research has shown that U.S. adults were less likely to endorse high-conformity children as ...

Among all the island countries of the world, Vanuatu, a small island nation in the South Pacific with a population of 220,000 was once ranked as the most vulnerable economy on the basis of having the least resilience to withstand the adverse impacts of external and internal shocks. Vanuatu is currently designated, on the basis of quality of life, as one of the five least developed countries amo...

We present a country-specific analysis on the effect of tourism economic growth five small Pacific Island Countries (PICs) – Fiji, Samoa, Solomon Islands, Tonga and Vanuatu. The results show development is growth-enhancing for all countries. Foreign direct investment (FDI) Islands Vanuatu, in short run, delayed negative association Fiji Vanuatu found. Remittances are growth-retarding Samoa Tong...

BACKGROUND Although the Republic of Vanuatu has improved maternal indicators, more needs to be done to improve equity among the poorest in the use of reproductive health services to expedite the progress towards the Millennium Development Goal 5(MDG 5) target. While large developing country studies provide evidence of a rich-poor gap in reproductive health services utilization, not much is writ...

BACKGROUND Human T-Lymphotropic Virus type 1 (HTLV-1) is endemic among people of Melanesian descent in Papua New Guinea, Solomon Islands and Vanuatu, and in Indigenous populations from Central Australia. Molecular studies revealed that these Australo-Melanesian strains constitute the highly divergent HTLV-1c subtype. New Caledonia is a French overseas territory located in the Southwest Pacific ...