Search results
Results From The WOW.Com Content Network
The South Pacific Business Development Microfinance Holdings Pte. Limited in Singapore owns SPBD Samoa, SPBD Tonga, and SPBD Fiji and is responsible for launching other greenfield microfinance operations in other Pacific Island countries such as in the Solomon Islands at the end of 2012.
The Pacific Islands Private Sector Organisation (PIPSO) was established in 2007 to promote the private sector’s role in policy making and to encourage business development through effective partnerships with governments, regional organisations, development partners and NGOs. Its headquarters are in Suva, Fiji. [citation needed]
The MicroDreams Foundation, originally South Pacific Business Development-USA, was founded in 2002 by Gregory F. Casagrande as a United States 501(c)(3) nonprofit organization. Their stated goal was to try to help fund the growth of the South Pacific Business Development Foundation (Samoa). [3]
Fiji is an island country consisting of more than 300 islands located in Oceania. Although the economy of Fiji serves as one of the main economic centers of the South Pacific islands, [1] it is mostly made up of agriculture and tourism. [2] The latter contributes to more than 40 percent of the nation's GDP. [3]
Bank of South Pacific; ANZ (Fiji) HFC (Fiji) Westpac (Fiji) ... Business Link Pacific Bank; Micronesia ... ANZ Solomon Islands; BRED Bank Solomon; Development Bank of ...
The 14 Forum Island Countries we represent are Cook Islands, Federated States of Micronesia, Fiji, Kiribati, Marshall Islands, Nauru, Niue, Palau, Papua New Guinea, Samoa, Solomon Islands, Tonga, Tuvalu, and Vanuatu. PTI is an agency of the Suva based Pacific Islands Forum Secretariat, and have offices in Australia, New Zealand, China and Japan.
The local Fiji textiles, clothing and footwear (TCF) industry has grown over the last 10 years and is now one of the major industries in Fiji. In 1997 the TCF industry accounted for 26% of Fiji’s total domestic exports; it contributed to some 3.5% of GDP and provided employment for about 18,000 people that account for 16% of those in total paid employment.
The economy of Fiji is one of the most developed among the Pacific islands. Nevertheless, Fiji is a developing country endowed with forest, mineral and fish resources. The country has a large agriculture sector heavily based on subsistence agriculture. Sugar exports and the tourism industry are the main sources of foreign exchange. There are ...