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Cover -- CONTENTS -- CONTEXT, RECENT DEVELOPMENTS, OUTLOOK, AND RISKS -- A. Context -- B. Recent Developments -- C. Outlook and Risks -- POLICY DISCUSSIONS -- A. Macroeconomic Policies -- B. Strenghtening Frameworks to Preserve Financial Stability -- C. Raising Medium- and Long-Term Growth -- D. Continue Improving Governance -- E. Staff Appraisal -- BOX -- 1. Integrating Fund Surveillance and Capacity Development -- FIGURES -- 1. Recent Developments -- 2. Fiscal Sector Indicators -- 3. External Sector Indicators -- 4. Monetary and Financial Indicators -- TABLES -- 1. Selected Economic Indicators, 2015-20 -- 2. Financial Corporations, 2010-17 -- 3. Central Government Operations, 2016-23 -- 4. Balance of Payments, 2014-23 -- 5. Selected Medium-Term Indicators, 2014-23 -- ANNEXES -- I. Risk Assessment Matrix -- II. External Sector Assessment -- III. Fiscal Space Assessment for Fiji -- IV. Climate Vulnerability Assessment -- V. Public Debt Sustaintability Analysis -- VI. Implements the Enhanced General Data Dissemination System -- VII. Selected Past and Ongoing Fund Advice on Structural Issues -- CONTENTS -- FUND RELATIONS -- RELATIONS WITH OTHER INTERNATIONAL FINANCIAL INSTITUTIONS -- STATISTICAL ISSUES.

Cover -- CONTENTS -- CONTEXT -- RECENT DEVELOPMENTS, OUTLOOK, AND RISKS -- A. Recent Developments -- B. Outlook and Risks -- POLICY DISCUSSIONS -- A. Monetary and Financial Policies -- B. Fiscal Policy -- C. Exchange Rate Policy, Reserves, and External Balance -- D. Structural Reforms -- STAFF APPRAISAL -- BOXES -- 1. Risk Assessment Matrix -- 2. Authorities' Responses to Past Fund Advice -- 3. Exchange Rate Assessement -- 4. Findings of the Tax Administration Diagnostic Assessment Tool -- 5. Progress on Selected Structural Reforms -- FIGURES -- 1. Macroeconomic Developments -- 2. Exchange Rate and Inflation Developments -- 3. Fiscal Indicators -- 4. Balance of Payments -- 5. Extermal Vulnerabilities -- 6. Monetary and Financial Indicators -- TABLES -- 1. Selected Economic Indicators, 2011-2016 -- 2. Depository Corporations Survey, 2009-14 -- 3. Central Government Finances, 2011-20 -- 4. Balance of Payments, 2011-20 -- 5. Selected Medium-Term Indicators, 2011-20 -- APPENDICES -- I. External Debt Sustainability Framework, 2010-20 -- II. Public Debt Sustainability Analysis -- III. Potential Growth in Fiji: Updating the Estimates -- IV. Understanding Price Movements in Fiji -- V. The Role of Credit in the Monetary Tranmission -- CONTENTS -- FUND RELATIONS -- WORLD BANK-IMF COLLABORATION -- RELATIONS WITH THE PACIFIC FINANCIAL TECHNICAL ASSISTANCE CENTRE -- RELATIONS WITH THE ASIAN DEVELOPMENT BANK -- STATISTICAL ISSUES.

KEY ISSUESContext: With successful landmark elections in September 2014, Fiji took a decisive stride toward returning to democratic government for the first time since 2006. The successful elections are expected to solidify the recent improvements in relationships with traditional development partners, improve access to concessional development finance, and boost confidence in the economy. In terms of economic policy, the comfortable Parliamentary majority for the former interim Prime Minister's party (FijiFirst) is expected to support continued economic reform momentum.Key issues and policy r

Fiji, post-independence, has seen several governments, two military coups and, amidst sweeping social, economic and political changes, the presence of divisive identity politics in its journey towards a united, collective Fiji community. This republished edition of Confronting Fiji Futures takes in these landmark events and eventualities, and aims at a forward-looking assessment of the realities facing Fiji in the present and the future. It focuses on the period of the coups up to and including the 1999 general elections, when an explicitly multiethnic party won government in a surprise landslide result. This book is the result of a collaborative research project based at the Institute of Social Studies, The Hague, in the Netherlands — an institution with a long tradition of collaborative teaching, research and advisory services in the South Pacific region. It aims to present a range of relevant issues from a number of vantage points. It has brought together a strong diversity of authors led by A. Haroon Akram-Lodhi, including John Cameron, Ganesh Chand, Martin Doornbos, Yash Ghai, Holger Korth, Sunil Kumar, Biman Prasad, Jacqueline Leckie, Satendra Prasad, Steve Ratuva, Robbie Robertson, Ardeshir Sepehri and William Sutherland.

Robert Norton's Race and Politics in Fiji, first published in 1977, drew upon the author's fieldwork in Fiji to develop the first serious and sustained study of politics in Fiji. An exercise in political anthropology, it was republished by UQP in 1990, but the essential argument remained much the same: the author sought to understand how political accommodation was achieved in Fiji despite deep ethnic and social cleavages. Why was Fiji able to escape the ethnic violence and turbulence that characterised other ethnically divided societies, such as Guyana? The answer lay in avoiding open comp

Through Dr Lal's refreshingly clear and powerful prose and sharply observed stories, we enter the inner world of Indo-Fijian feeling and aspiration. One universal that emerges with particular clarity in the Indo-Fijian experience is the ceaseless struggle to find community in a changing world, balancing the beauty of ritual and tradition against the transcendent value of education and modern rationality. The volume poses the question of how people draw upon historical memory and immediate circumstances to create a social world, and how that world can be shared with others in multicultural society. The answer seems to lie somewhere between history and poetry, as in Dr Lal's 'factions.' Andrew Arno
University of Hawaii
at Manoa, Honolulu