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  • Volume 41, Issue 2, 2021 (Special Edition on COVID-19)
    • Investigating Asymmetry in Tourism and Growth Relationship in the Pacific Island Countries: Any Lessons for Policy Makers?
    • Urban Fijian Indigenous Families’ Positive and Negative Diet, Eating and Food Purchasing Experiences During the COVID 19 Safety Protocols
    • We Are All in This Together: Evaluating Human Rights Restrictions in Selected Pacific Island Countries During Pandemic
  • Volume 41, Issue 1, 2021
    • Developing Graduate Capabilities Beyond Technical Competence – Do Undergraduate Accounting Programmes Provide Adequate Support for the Workplace?
    • Higher Education and the Indigenous Language and Culture: Samoanisation of the National University of Samoa
    • The Impact of HIV/AIDS-Related Stigma, HIV Transmission Knowledge, and Gender on Familial Support for People Living with HIV/AIDS: Implications for the “Test and Treat” Intervention in Fiji
    • An Empirical Study on Client-induced Valuation Bias – Evidence from Fiji
    • Making Law in Papua New Guinea | By Bruce L. Ottley, David Weisbrot, and Jean G. Zorn
  • Volume 40, Issue 2, 2020 (Special Edition on General Elections)
    • Elections and the chain of democratic choice
    • The 2019 Elections: Electoral Quality, Political Inequality and the Flames of Frustration in Honiara
    • Independent MPs, Political Party Legislation and Electoral Politics in Solomon Islands
    • 2018 Fiji Election Results: Patterns of Voting by Provinces, Rural-Urban Localities, and by Candidates
    • Religion and the New Media: Discourses and Debates in the 2018 Fiji General Election Campaign
  • Volume 40, Issue 1, 2020
    • A Residential Satisfaction Assessment of Public Rental Board Housing in the Greater Suva Urban Area, Fiji Islands
    • The Newspaper as a Vehicle for Fan Participation in Fiji Rugby Union
    • Opportunities and Challenges of Implementing the International Valuation Standards in Fiji
    • Suva Residents’ Views on Cancer, Diabetes and HIV in The Fiji Times
  • Volume 39, Issue 1, 2019
    • More than Smiles – Employee Empowerment Facilitating High-Quality, Consistent Services – The Wakaya Club, Fiji
    • Do high renewable energy targets hinder donor-funded rural electrification in Pacific island countries?
    • Tourism Development in the South Pacific: The Cases of Nauru and Tuvalu
    • Determinants of Microentrepreneurial Success in One of the Small Island Developing States of the Pacific: Evidence from Samoa
    • Gender Differences in HIV Risk Perception and Sexual Behaviour of Young Adults in Metropolitan Areas of Fiji
    • Tourism and Residents’ Quality of Life: A Critical Examination
    • Explaining Policy Change in Samoa’s Mental Health System
    • Freshwater Mussel (Batissa violacea) Fishery and its Value in Fiji
All Issues
  • Volume 41, Issue 2, 2021 (Special Edition on COVID-19)
    • Investigating Asymmetry in Tourism and Growth Relationship in the Pacific Island Countries: Any Lessons for Policy Makers?
    • Urban Fijian Indigenous Families’ Positive and Negative Diet, Eating and Food Purchasing Experiences During the COVID 19 Safety Protocols
    • We Are All in This Together: Evaluating Human Rights Restrictions in Selected Pacific Island Countries During Pandemic
  • Volume 41, Issue 1, 2021
    • Developing Graduate Capabilities Beyond Technical Competence – Do Undergraduate Accounting Programmes Provide Adequate Support for the Workplace?
    • Higher Education and the Indigenous Language and Culture: Samoanisation of the National University of Samoa
    • The Impact of HIV/AIDS-Related Stigma, HIV Transmission Knowledge, and Gender on Familial Support for People Living with HIV/AIDS: Implications for the “Test and Treat” Intervention in Fiji
    • An Empirical Study on Client-induced Valuation Bias – Evidence from Fiji
    • Making Law in Papua New Guinea | By Bruce L. Ottley, David Weisbrot, and Jean G. Zorn
  • Volume 40, Issue 2, 2020 (Special Edition on General Elections)
    • Elections and the chain of democratic choice
    • The 2019 Elections: Electoral Quality, Political Inequality and the Flames of Frustration in Honiara
    • Independent MPs, Political Party Legislation and Electoral Politics in Solomon Islands
    • 2018 Fiji Election Results: Patterns of Voting by Provinces, Rural-Urban Localities, and by Candidates
    • Religion and the New Media: Discourses and Debates in the 2018 Fiji General Election Campaign
  • Volume 40, Issue 1, 2020
    • A Residential Satisfaction Assessment of Public Rental Board Housing in the Greater Suva Urban Area, Fiji Islands
    • The Newspaper as a Vehicle for Fan Participation in Fiji Rugby Union
    • Opportunities and Challenges of Implementing the International Valuation Standards in Fiji
    • Suva Residents’ Views on Cancer, Diabetes and HIV in The Fiji Times
  • Volume 39, Issue 1, 2019
    • More than Smiles – Employee Empowerment Facilitating High-Quality, Consistent Services – The Wakaya Club, Fiji
    • Do high renewable energy targets hinder donor-funded rural electrification in Pacific island countries?
    • Tourism Development in the South Pacific: The Cases of Nauru and Tuvalu
    • Determinants of Microentrepreneurial Success in One of the Small Island Developing States of the Pacific: Evidence from Samoa
    • Gender Differences in HIV Risk Perception and Sexual Behaviour of Young Adults in Metropolitan Areas of Fiji
    • Tourism and Residents’ Quality of Life: A Critical Examination
    • Explaining Policy Change in Samoa’s Mental Health System
    • Freshwater Mussel (Batissa violacea) Fishery and its Value in Fiji

Volume 41, Issue 2, 2021 (Special Edition on COVID-19)

This issue is a Special Edition on COVID-19 and is in progress but contains articles that are final and fully citable.

Research articles


Investigating Asymmetry in Tourism and Growth Relationship in the Pacific Island Countries: Any Lessons for Policy Makers?
Keshmeer Makun (Email: keshmeer.e.makun@usp.ac.fj) and T. K. Jayaraman
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Urban Fijian Indigenous Families’ Positive and Negative Diet, Eating and Food Purchasing Experiences During the COVID 19 Safety Protocols
Shazna M. Buksh (Email: shazna.buksh@usp.ac.fj), Phillipa Hay and John B.F. de Wit
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We Are All in This Together: Evaluating Human Rights Restrictions in Selected Pacific Island Countries During Pandemic
Milla Vaha (Email: milla.vaha@usp.ac.fj)
View abstract in PDF

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