This report is a first step towards understanding the economic contribution of the oceans' resources to the economies of the PICTs, as well as the economic value of healthy Pacific Oceans.

In September 2004, the New Zealand Agency for International Development (NZAID) released its Asia Strategy to provide a framework for New Zealand’s Official Development Assistance (NZ ODA) in Asia (2004 - 2015).

Since its founding in 1973, Trade Aid Importers Ltd (TAI) has imported handcraft and commodities from partners in Africa, Asia, South and Central America and the Pacific.

This report deals with two aspects of measuring the economic influence of cultural industries. One describes how to capture direct and indirect effects of a cultural activity or an investment, and the other how to attempt to see cultural economy as part of national accounts.

Every 5 seconds someone somewhere in the world is diagnosed with diabetes, and every 10 seconds someone dies of it. As a result of technical and clinical advances, and public health successes such as the lowering of national smoking rates, there has been a dramatic decline in mortality from cardiovascular disease in several developed countries...