Pasifika Business Research : Information & Resources

To locate all the items held in the Library on a certain subject, conduct a Subject Heading search.
Tips: 
Use Islands of the Pacific rather than Pacific Islands. Another example: Islands of the Pacific commerce.
Use Oceania  for an overview of the region. Another example: Oceania economic conditions

Other useful ubject heading terms:
Pacific Islanders Commerce New Zealand
Oceania Social Life and Customs
Pacific Area, etc. .
Pacific Islanders New Zealand Social Life and Customs
Polynesia, Melanesia , Micronesia
Samoa, Tonga ,Cook Islands, New Caledonia, Papua New Guinea etc. .

Business Source Premier contains Pacific Islands country reports from the EIU Economist Intelligence Unit  in London. The reports examine and explain in depth the issues shaping the country: the political scene, economic policy, domestic economy, sectoral trends, and foreign trade and payments. 

• Finding a Country Profile : search the Business Source Premier database. Profiles are published once a year and supplemented by the Country Reports (see below). The Pacific Islands are covered by one report, Country Profile Pacific Islands. Profiles usually covers basic data, politics, the economy, resources and infrastructure, economic sectors, and the external sector. Type the name and change the 'in' box to SO Publication name. For example: Country Profile Pacific Islands. 
• Finding a Country Report:  Search the Business Source Premier database. Reports are usually published each month although there are some gaps. Note there is also a 6 month embargo on the electronic full text. Generally there is an outlook for the next 2 years, which includes coverage of the domestic economy, economic policy, and the political structure and scene. Type the country name and the words country report and change the drop down box to SO Publication name. For example: Samoa country report. 
• EIU Economist Intelligence Unit Country Reports for Fiji, New Caledonia, Solomon Islands, Tonga, Vanuatu, Western Samoa are held in print in the General Library NZ&P Level G 330.99 C85, dating from 1997 onwards.
• Background notes on the countries of the world: from the US Superintendent of Documents in Washington. Search the Business Source Premier database. The notes contain geography, people, economy, politics, travel information etc. You can search as a publication name and add a country in the keyword box to search. For example: Background notes on the countries of the world and change the drop down box to SO Publication name and enter the country e.g. Tonga.

ABI/Inform database contains some publications which cover the Pacific Islands. 

• EIU Viewswire in ABI/Inform database has brief overviews for countries. General topics covered include business, economy, politics, finance, regulations and risk wire. There are several search methods. For example, type: pmid (65888) and Samoa  OR  drill down via the publication search tab and country in ABI/Inform.

Factiva database: contains company profiles and news articles from the Asia Pacific region. You can search by Pacific Islands region. Factiva indexes the PAC News (Cooperative of the Pacific Islands of Tuvalu, Vanuatu, Fiji, Cook Islands and Kiribati established to generate and share news with each other)  from Canberra.

• CIA World Factbook gives current basic information on social, economic and political indicators.

• BBC Country Profiles

• Google Directory - Business and Economy-Oceania

• Country links University of Minnesota

• Political resources on the Net Australia/ Oceania Contains the newspaper Savali Press in English and the full text Samoan edition.

• Human Development Report 2006, Beyond scarcity : power, poverty and the global water crisis. UNDP

• UN Economic and Social Survey of Asia and the Pacific 2010

• Pacific region resources Part 1 and Part 2. From Australian National University

• UK. Foreign and Commonwealth Office country profiles includes UK Trade and Investment profiles for Fiji, Kiribati, Nauru, Tonga, Tuvalu and Vanuatu

• Australia. Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade-South Pacific includes, country factsheets and country profiles

• Passport GMID  
  This database can give basic details about the geography , political situation and current business trends in each country. Expand   Asia Pacific in the  geography, and select general category headings in such as population, foreign trade. Sources are usually official statistics. 
• OFFSTATS database Official Statistics on the web, compiled by Business & Economics Information Services Team at the University of Auckland General Library. Provides links to government statistics for Pacific Island countries. 
• Business Monitor Online - use keyword search for Pacific Islands or individual countries

E-books

• Fruin, W Mark (1998). Networks, markets, and the Pacific Rim : studies in strategy. New York : Oxford University Press

News Media 

• BYZ News links newspapers and news media guide for Polynesia

• Café Pacific by David Robie, a Fiji based journalist.

• Pacific Islanders in Communications

• Media Hotlinks (USP Fiji)

• Pacific Journalism Review

Maps 

• Maps of the South Pacific

• Fairbairn, Teo I J.(1988) Island entrepreneurs : problems and performances in the Pacific. Honolulu, HI : Pacific Islands Development Program, East-West Center.
  
  Library Topic Guides
  Entrepreneurship includes practical help with law, patents, business planning, venture capital, and marketing. Maori business includes Maori business history and aspects of current Maori business interests such as fishing and forestry.

  Videos
  Making waves : Caka ua (2004) London : Commonwealth Secretariat. This video discusses young entrepreneurs in Fiji.

South Pacific Business Development Foundation By providing access to capital, using venture funding, SPDB allows women and their families to pursue their dreams and achieve their full potential. The site highlights successful women entrepreneurs in Samoa.

Annual Reports 

• Mergent database for annual reports in pdf form back to about 1990. Also company synopsis, history, joint ventures, subsidiaries, long term debt, executives, and news.

Setting up a Business in the Pacific 

• Use this World Bank Doing Business website for Starting a business in Samoa, Starting a business in Tonga. Other countries include Papua New Guinea, Fiji, Kiribati, Micronesia, Solomon Islands. Information includes time taken to register and set up a company in a Pacific Island economy. The section "Law Library" covers legislative requirements. There is a current list of contact people and organisations with each guide. 
• Advances in Pacific Basin business, economics and finance. Greenwich, Conn. : JAI Press, 1995-

Company Profiles 

• Business Source Premier : use the Company Profile button to call up the company. Brief company information will display. Within the brief overview click on the [PDF] Complete Report link.  The company profiles are from DataMonitor. In addition, there are also industry reports from DataMonitor and industry yearbooks from Global Insight. 
• Pacific Business News currently has a beta version of a directory of Pacific company profiles

Directories 

• Universal Business Directory Asia/Pacific   Last one published 1996. General Library holds 1956 - 1996 in storage. 
  
  
• Kompass :an international business directory. Click on the companies button and select a country. Database contains information on a company's executives, brief financials, branches, localities, a list of products and services, and trade and brand names.
  
  
• Papua New Guinea business information and street directory 2001/2002. UBD. General Library NZ&P 919.23 P218d
  

Financial Information

• Datastream database - listed companies in the Pacific region back to 1973.

Investment 

• South Pacific Stock Exchange : (SPSE), formerly the Suva Stock Exchange, is currently the only licensed securities exchange in the Fiji Islands. In November 2000, the Stock Exchange officially changed its name to the South Pacific Stock Exchange (SPSE). The change is in line with the SPSE's vision of being a regional exchange. Site includes Stock Exchange Listing Rules and announcements. 

Ownership 

• Who owns whom. Australasia, Asia, Middle East & Africa High Wycombe : Dun & Bradstreet, 2007. This is a print resource held at GENERAL LIBRARY Business Reference Level M (Not borrowable) 338.8 W62

Taxation 

• Paying taxes 2011 The global picture from Pricewaterhousecoopers, includes Pacific countries' taxation details. 

Pacific Law 

• Ahmadu, Mohammed L. and Hughes, Robert A.(2006) Commercial law and practice in the South Pacific. London : Cavendish in General Library. 
• Pacific Islands Legal Information Institute (PacLII) Pacific law by country, Pacific Islands Law Journals, law materials, and resources of the University of the South Pacific law collection. 
• Law of the Pacific Islands: A Guide to Web Based Resources by Ruth Bird, the 2000 original feature is updated to 2002.
• Samoa Parliament. Contains Acts and legal documents.
• University of the South Pacific Journal of South Pacific law
• Pacific Islands Law Resources Unit. Monash University

Send Money Pacific was created through the joint Australian and New Zealand Governments' led initiative 'Reducing the Cost of Remittances to the Pacific'. The project has been developed and managed by the project partner, Developing Markets Associates Ltd (DMA).

• Pacific Association of Technical and Vocational Education and Training a review of technical and vocational education training policy and planning in the Pacific Islands (pdf) 

• Paddle Pacific Archive of digital data for learning and education   University of the South Pacific
• In New Zealand: BIZ Maori and Pacific business training 
• Pacific Resources for Education and Learning (PREL) is an independent, nonprofit 501(c)(3) corporation that serves the educational community in the U.S.-affiliated Pacific islands, the continental United States, and countries throughout the world

• ABI/Inform (ProQuest) international business coverage
• Asia Studies Fulltext Online from APEC
• Australia New Zealand Reference Centre fulltext Australian,New Zealand and overseas news.
• Business Source Premier (Ebsco) includes Pacific Economic Review and Asia Pacific Business Review journals
• Factiva Company profiles and news articles 
• International Financial Statistics (IMF) financial and economic data for all countries from 1948 -, including GDP, National Accounts, currency, interest rates. 
• Index New Zealand INNZ  General index to New Zealand journals and newspapers from 1987 onwards. Also indexes Pacific Islands Monthly. 
• NewzText Plus : a full-text database of major New Zealand newspapers and business magazines. 
• Niustext : a database providing searchable full-text access to several Pacific Islands publications, including Cook Islands Herald, Cook Islands Time, FemLINKPacific Islands Business, Pacific Business Online, Pacific Islands News Association, Pacific Media Centre, Solomon Islands Broadcasting Corporation, South Pacific Regional Environment Programme
  
• Project Muse is a database with links to a large number of full-text journals, including The Contemporary Pacific, Oceanic Linguistics and Pacific Science.
• Pacific islands index compiled by New Zealand and Pacific Dept., Auckland City Libraries. 1978-1996
  Location : Central City Auckland Research Centre - Serials - Basement - Ask at Desk
  Includes an index to Pacific Islands Monthly 1978-1992.
  From 1987 to June 1996 items from other sources, such as Islands business, and the New Zealand Herald were also included in the index.

Journals 

• Development Bulletin Canberra : Australian Development Studies Network at ANU. Older issues are available electronically. Current issues are held as a print serial in the General Library from 1989-2007.
• Pacific Islands monthly - indexed in INNZ Index New Zealand database. General Library holds vol 1 (1930) - vol.70 (2000)
• Consult the useful new Library guide for New Zealand journals Finding New Zealand business magazines and newspapers

E-journals

• ANZ Pacific Research provides a quarterly review of Pacific Islands economies.
• Asia Pacific business review. London : Frank Cass, c1995- (Western Pacific - Asia)
• Asian-Pacific Law & Policy Journal The APLPJ is the first fully-functional, web-based, American legal journal dedicated to issues facing Asia and the Pacific Rim. It is maintained by the University of Hawaii, William S. Richardson School of Law. 
• Business Pasifika : a monthly look at business in the Pacific community a New Zealand journal from the Pacific Business Trust. Print 2004-2009.
• The Contemporary Pacific A publication for interdisciplinary work in Pacific studies and contemporary issues in the Pacific region.
• Graduate Journal of Asia-Pacific Studies : a peer reviewed interdisciplinary journal showcasing articles, commentaries, reviews, and visual works of graduate students of the Faculty of Arts at the University of Auckland.
• Islands business Islands Business International, Suva. Full text from May 2005 in Niustext and Fiji Islands business online issues. 
• Journal of Asia-Pacific business from the International Business Press, NY. Online from vol. 1 no. 1 1997 - contains mainly Western Pacific Asian studies. 
• Jouurnal of the Asia Pacific Economy (JAPE) London : Routledge Journals. Electronic since 1996. 
• Journal of  Maori and Pacific development. Hamilton, N.Z. : School of Maori and Pacific Development, University of Waikato, 2000-
• NZ Pacific Navigator previously published by the Pacific Islands Trade and Investment Commission. Ceased in July 2010.
• Pacific Magazine and Islands Business Pacific Magazine is not currently available.

• OFFSTATS : Official Statistics on the web : database compiled by Business & Economics team at the University of Auckland General Library. Provides links to government statistics for Pacific Island countries. 
• World Bank Key Development Data and Statistics by country provides a listing of economic, social and employment related data for each main Pacific Island country 
• Asian Development Bank website includes the ADB's Statistical Database System Online 
• UNESCAP Asia and the Pacific in figures 
• PRISM (SPC)National data from the Secretariat of the Pacific Community 
• United Nations InfoNation

For help with finding organisations by their initials use this Acronym finder created for Pacific Studies students.

Organisations in the Pacific 

• Asian Development Bank website contains economic and statistical information, as well as details of ongoing ADB development projects in the Pacific Islands.
• Pacific Islands Business Network (PIBN), provides purchasing agents, overseas investors, and individual consumers with information about products and services available in Joint Commercial Commission (JCC), member Pacific Islands states coordinated by the Pacific Islands Development Program of the East-West Center in Honolulu, Hawai'i.
• Pacific Islands Forum comprises 16 independent and self-governing states in the Pacific. The Forum is established by a treaty between its members as the region’s premier political and economic policy organisation. 
• Pacific Regional Economic Integration Programme (PACREIP)
  The negotiations of an Economic Partnership Agreement (EPA) between Pacific Island Countries and the European Union (EU) will be assisted with the launch of a website containing information on the Pacific Regional Economic Integration Programme (PACREIP). PACREIP assists in the Pacific region's preparations and conduct of negotiations of the Economic Partnership Agreement (EPA) with the European Union (EU), and provides support for the region in World Trade Organization talks. 
• Secretariat of the Pacific Community (SPC) An international organisation, the Secretariat of the Pacific Community (SPC) works in partnership with its members, other organisations and donors to deliver priority work programmes to member countries and territories. 
• South Pacific Tourism Organisation information on Pacific tourist markets and investment.
• South Pacific Regional Environmental Programme - environmental publications.
• AusAID Regional overview Pacific Islands-In line with the recommendations of the 2004 Pacific Islands Forum Review, Australia will place a greater emphasis on regional approaches in aid programming, and play a lead role in building cooperative frameworks with other donors and with regional organizations. Papua New Guinea has its own site.

In New Zealand 

• Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Trade The Pacific Division is involved in a wide range of issues including political and economic relations, trade relations, defence and regional security, environment and fisheries management, and disaster relief assistance. Also lists Consulates and High Commissions in New Zealand, and New Zealand embassies in Pacific island countries. catalogue under author,  for various specific market reports for the New Zealand market, done by Pacific Islands Trade and Investment Commission NZ   e.g. Exporting fruit and vegetables to New Zealand : a guide for Pacific Island producers 
• New Zealand Trade and Enterprise (NZTE) site includes Pacific export markets . 
• New Zealand Pacific Business Council (NZPBC). Part of the site is for members only, but there are articles and news. 
• Pacific Business Trust Annual report and Community news and Pacific Business Awards coverage 2007
• Ministry of Pacific Island Affairs a trust which promotes the development of Pacific peoples in New Zealand 
• Te Puna Pacific Islands websites Organised by country or territory and breaks down into Business and Economy websites for each Pacific Island nation

Governments

• Oceanian Governments on the Web

• University of the South Pacific School of Economics has working papers, articles, and refereed publications. Of interest is the reportEconomic Impact of Natural Disasters on Development in the Pacific : Research Report  and Economic Assessment Tools jointly prepared with the Australian Agency for International development (AusAid)
   
• University of Hawaii. Center for Pacific Island Studies The University also hosts the Shidler College of Business which hosts Centers such as the Family Business Center and the Pacific Asian Center for Entrepreneurship and E-Business
   
• Pacific Islands Development Program (PIDP) East-West Center.
  Based In Hawaii, PIDP began as a forum through which island leaders could discuss critical issues of development with a wide spectrum of interested countries, donors, non-governmental organizations, and the private sector. Search for reports using a Voyager search Includes Resources for Pacific a list of Island Business Associations, mainly Chambers of Commerce and manufacturers organisations. East West Center Publications are listed such as Pacific islands report. Also useful is the Pacific Islands report links page.
   
• Pacific project A series of Pasifika papers have been commissioned by the Chief Executives of the New Zealand Public Service. Topics include interactions with Pasifika from a number of perspectives, including the Pacific Island economy in New Zealand, the economies of the islands themselves, trades, borders and migration. Based in the Institute for Policy Studies, Victoria University of Wellington
   
• University of Waikato, New Zealand. Hosts the Te Pua Wānanga ki te Ao - School of Māori and Pacific Development Centre for Maori and Pacific Development Research (CMPDR). Site includes the online journal He Puna Kōrero: Journal of Maori and Pacific Development
   
• Australian National University Research School of Pacific and Asian Studies

Visit the Theses and dissertations page on the Library home page, which lists all theses in the University of Auckland Library system and helps you search for overseas theses too.

The Union List of Higher Degree Theses is an annual print bibliography of theses lodged in New Zealand libraries, with coverage going back to 1910. Available from the New Zealand & Pacific Quick Reference shelves Level G in the GENERAL LIBRARY, Call No. 013.37895 U581.

• Australia Department of Foreign Affairs & Trade Information on Australian foreign affairs and trade relationships with the Pacific Island nations, and includes South Pacific Country information and the Response of the Australian Government to the Senate Foreign Affairs, Defence and Trade Reference Committee Report (Volumes I and II) on the Economic and Security Challenges facing Papua New Guinea and the island states of the south west Pacific.
• Pacific Islands Trade and Invest from the Pacific Islands Forum Secretariat. 
• Pacific Islands Trade and Investment Commission (Sydney) The Pacific Islands Trade and Investment Commission aims to contribute to the sustainable economic advancement of the Pacific Island Forum countries by supporting private sector development in the region. Covers Cook Islands, Federated States of Micronesia, Fiji, Kiribati, Republic of Marshall Islands, Palau, Papua New Guinea, Nauru, Niue, Samoa, Solomon Islands, Tonga, Tuvalu, Vanuatu. 
• FDI.net World Bank FDI information by country.Development Banks of each Pacific Island country contain lots of trade and investments information on each Pacific Island country e.g. Development bank of Samoa  and Fiji Development BankMinistries of Finance are also primary sources of business and economic information on each Pacific Island country i.e. Western SamoaPacific Business Connections, directories, news, business opportunities.
• Pacific Islands Business network (Hawaii) Business opportunities in the United States-Pacific Islands Nations.

Cook Islands 

• Cook Islands Government Structure 
• Cook Islands Investment Development Board

Fiji 

• Fiji Islands Trade and Investment Bureau

Samoa 

• Government Ministries Samoa
• Samoa Department of Trade, Commerce and Industry
• Samoa Ministry of Finance
• A guide to investment. (1997) Western Samoa. Dept. of Trade, Commerce and Industry 
• Samoa investment treasure islands.(2000-2001) Western Samoa. Dept. of Trade, Commerce and Industry 
• Western Samoa: a nation in transition (1995) Hong Kong : Asiamoney

Solomon Islands

• Invest in Solomon Islands Foreign Investment Division, Dept of Commerce, Trade and Industries.

Tonga

• Tongan government website homepage news, business contacts, parliamentary news

Vanuatu

• Invest in Vanuatu. Vanuatu Investment Promotion Authority

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• Subject Librarians  Judy McFall, Pasifika Studies Librarian, or Julie Sibthorpe Business & Economics Team