This paper investigates resources-related con‡icts in a small open economy through a game-theoretic approach. By endogenising the regime-switching mechanism, it models revolution and repression as the elite-civilian competition for control over resources, which is constrained by the opportunity costs of natural resources and labour. It shows that higher world resource prices tend to trigger con...

Agricultural research and development projects face structural barriers to the equitable participation of women. Applying an intersectional approach can facilitate women freely pursue their economic, social cultural within existing patriarchal colonial structures, ultimately challenging subverting these structures. This paper argues that initiatives must seek understand ways being specific loca...

Vanuatu was first settled ca. 3000 years ago by populations associated with the Lapita culture. Models of diet, subsistence practices, and human interaction for the Lapita and subsequent occupation periods have been developed mainly using the available archaeological and paleoenvironmental data. We test these models using stable (carbon, nitrogen, and sulfur) and radiogenic (strontium) isotopes...

This paper explores the institutional and cultural aspects of parliamentary politics in the Melanesian states Papua New Guinea, Solomon Islands, Vanuatu and Fiji, and in so doing seeks to provide a baseline of information about Melanesian parliamentary politics.1 The paper argues that executive dominance has become entrenched and normalised because of the interplay between parliamentary institu...

BackgroundPacific Island Countries (PICs) face unique challenges in providing surgical care. We assessed the care capacity of five PICs to inform development National Surgical, Obstetric and Anaesthesia Plans (NSOAP).MethodsWe conducted a cross-sectional survey 26 facilities Fiji, Tonga, Vanuatu, Cook Islands, Palau using World Health Organization - Program Global Surgery Social Change Surgical...