Small Island States in the Pacific : : the Tyranny of Distance / / Chris Becker

• Autore: Becker Chris
• Pubblicazione: Washington, D.C. : , : International Monetary Fund, , 2012
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (29 p.)
• Soggetto topico: Islands; Macroeconomics; Demography; Measurement and Analysis of Poverty; Macroeconomic Analyses of Economic Development; Economic Development: Urban, Rural, Regional, and Transportation Analysis; Housing; Infrastructure; Economic Growth and Aggregate Productivity: General; Economywide Country Studies: Oceania; Comparative Studies of Countries; Personal Income, Wealth, and Their Distributions; Demographic Economics: General; Measurement and Data on National Income and Product Accounts and Wealth; Environmental Accounts; Population & demography; Personal income; Population and demographics; National income; National accounts; Income; Population
• Soggetto geografico: Islands of the Pacific; Tuvalu
• Note generali: Description based upon print version of record.
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references.
• Nota di contenuto: Cover; Abstract; Contents; I. Introduction; II. Defining Small States by population; III. Lacking Economies of Scale; A. Fixed costs spread over narrow base; B. Scope for regional cooperation; IV. Income per capita; V. Scope for Import substitution through agriculture; VI. Geographic Isolation; VII. Vulnerability ranking; A. Ranking small states; B. Empirical link to real economic outcomes; VIII. Concluding remarks; Appendix I. Country Classifications and Data; Appendix II. Data Sources and Metadata; References
• Sommario/riassunto: This paper seeks to document key characteristics of small island states in the Pacific. It restricts itself to a limited number of indicators which are macro-orientated - population, fertility of land, ability to tap into economies of scale, income, and geographic isolation. It leaves aside equally important but more micro-orientated variables and development indicators. We show that small island states in the Pacific are different from countries in other regional groupings in that they are extremely isolated and have limited scope to tap economies of scale due to small populations. They often have little arable land. There is empirical evidence to suggest that these factors are related to income growth.
• Titolo autorizzato: Small Island States in the Pacific
• ISBN: 1-4755-3207-5; 1-4755-6028-1
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910786485703321
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II
• Serie: IMF Working Papers; Working Paper ; ; No. 2012/223