Science-based coastal management in Fiji: Two case studies from the NGO sector
In: Marine policy: the international journal of ocean affairs, Band 36, Heft 4, S. 907-915
ISSN: 0308-597X
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In: Marine policy: the international journal of ocean affairs, Band 36, Heft 4, S. 907-915
ISSN: 0308-597X
In: Review of social economy: the journal for the Association for Social Economics, Band 41, Heft 1, S. 25-38
ISSN: 1470-1162
In: Development Studies Reprint, 174
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In: Political geography quarterly, Band 10, S. 221-239
ISSN: 0260-9827
Develops a framework for analysis of geographical aspects of political support and power. Discusses the country's political development since independence, the constitution, the Fiji Labour party, and the military coup d'état.
Background: Universal health coverage (UHC) is critical to global poverty alleviation and equity of health systems. Many low-income and middle-income countries, including small island states in the Pacific, have committed to UHC and reforming their health financing systems to better align with UHC goals. This study provides the first comprehensive evidence on equity of the health financing system in Fiji, a small Pacific island state. The health systems of such states are poorly covered in the international literature. Methods: The study employs benefit and financing incidence analyses to evaluate the distribution of health financing benefits and burden across the public and private sectors. Primary data from a cross-sectional survey of 2000 households were used to assess healthcare benefits and secondary data from the 2008–2009 Fiji Household Income and Expenditure Survey to assess health financing contributions. These were analysed by socioeconomic groups to determine the relative benefit and financing incidence across these groups. Findings: The distribution of healthcare benefits in Fiji slightly favours the poor—around 61% of public spending for nursing stations and 26% of spending for government hospital inpatient care were directed to services provided to the poorest 20% of the population. The financing system is significantly progressive with wealthier groups bearing a higher share of the health financing burden. Conclusions: The healthcare system in Fiji achieves a degree of vertical equity in financing, with the poor receiving a higher share of benefits from government health spending and bearing a lower share of the financing burden than wealthier groups.
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In: Australian journal of international affairs: journal of the Australian Institute of International Affairs, Band 67, Heft 3, S. 357-372
ISSN: 1465-332X
BACKGROUND: Universal health coverage (UHC) is critical to global poverty alleviation and equity of health systems. Many low-income and middle-income countries, including small island states in the Pacific, have committed to UHC and reforming their health financing systems to better align with UHC goals. This study provides the first comprehensive evidence on equity of the health financing system in Fiji, a small Pacific island state. The health systems of such states are poorly covered in the international literature. METHODS: The study employs benefit and financing incidence analyses to evaluate the distribution of health financing benefits and burden across the public and private sectors. Primary data from a cross-sectional survey of 2000 households were used to assess healthcare benefits and secondary data from the 2008-2009 Fiji Household Income and Expenditure Survey to assess health financing contributions. These were analysed by socioeconomic groups to determine the relative benefit and financing incidence across these groups. FINDINGS: The distribution of healthcare benefits in Fiji slightly favours the poor-around 61% of public spending for nursing stations and 26% of spending for government hospital inpatient care were directed to services provided to the poorest 20% of the population. The financing system is significantly progressive with wealthier groups bearing a higher share of the health financing burden. CONCLUSIONS: The healthcare system in Fiji achieves a degree of vertical equity in financing, with the poor receiving a higher share of benefits from government health spending and bearing a lower share of the financing burden than wealthier groups.
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In: World development: the multi-disciplinary international journal devoted to the study and promotion of world development, Band 107, S. 125-137
In: Public management review, Band 20, Heft 10, S. 1490-1512
ISSN: 1471-9045
In: The Asia Pacific Journal of Public Administration, Band 32, Heft 1, S. 89-105
Influenced by the rhetoric of the arm's length concept, Fiji's public enterprise reform of 1993 took off with high hopes of better things to come for the struggling government commercial companies (GCCs) that had been posing a significant burden on the government's limited resources. Unfortunately, the prevailing sense of optimism faded after more than a decade of inconsistent performance by the majority of GCCs. There was an oversight right from the outset. Responsible authorities were easily carried away by the finesse of the concept and were largely ignorant of the realities in Fiji that stifled progress following the 1993 reform. Adapted from the source document.
In: The European journal of development research, Band 34, Heft 6, S. 2948-2969
ISSN: 1743-9728
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In: Crossley , M , Koya Vaka'uta , C F , Lagi , R , McGrath , S , Thaman , K H & Waqailiti , L 2017 , ' Quality education and the role of the teacher in Fiji: mobilising global and local values ' , Compare: A Journal of Comparative and International Education , vol. 47 , no. 6 , pp. 872-890 . https://doi.org/10.1080/03057925.2017.1338938
This article reports on the findings of original field research carried out in the small island developing state of Fiji, in the South Pacific. A North-South research partnership was built upon previous collaboration between team members and, in so doing, pioneered the blending of Pacific and Western research approaches sensitive to a postcolonial positioning. The study interrogates practitioner perspectives on: the nature and quality of teachers and teaching in Fiji; the challenges of teachers' work and lives; priorities for successful qualitative reform; and theoretical implications for the processes of education policy transfer and qualitative improvement. The analysis draws upon work on the politics of aid and international development, revealing tensions between existing learner-centred policy frameworks and emergent neoliberal and performativity oriented initiatives influenced by international surveys of student achievement, related league tables and the experience of the regional reference societies of Australia, New Zealand and India.
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To read this evocative book is to be thrust into a Fiji that has, for the moment, been snuffed out by military might: a Fiji of political parties, parliamentary politics, elections, manifestoes, campaigns, democractic defence of interests, party manoeuvres, and constitutional protection of rights and freedoms. It is a comprehensive and eloquent re-telling of the story of Fiji politics from independence in 1970 to 1999 through the perspective of Fiji's greatest living statesman, Jai Ram Reddy, by one of the world's most distinguished scholars of its history and politics.
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To read this evocative book is to be thrust into a Fiji that has, for the moment, been snuffed out by military might: a Fiji of political parties, parliamentary politics, elections, manifestoes, campaigns, democractic defence of interests, party manoeuvres, and constitutional protection of rights and freedoms. It is a comprehensive and eloquent re-telling of the story of Fiji politics from independence in 1970 to 1999 through the perspective of Fiji's greatest living statesman, Jai Ram Reddy, by one of the world's most distinguished scholars of its history and politics.
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