Australia, New Zealand and the Pacific Islands
Greta D. Ober-Beauchesne
E-mail: goberbeauchesne@imf.org or greta@worldbank.org
Phone:
202-623-6413 Fax: 202-623-6417
Joint World
Bank-IMF Library: http://jolis.worldbankimflib.org/
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COUNTRY & ECONOMIC INFORMATION
International Monetary Fund (IMF) - http://www.imf.org/
World Bank - http://www.worldbank.org/
Countries:
American Samoa, Australia, Fiji, Kiribati, Marshall Islands, Micronesia -
Federated States of, New Caledonia, New Zealand, Northern Marina Islands, Palau,
Papua New Guinea, Samoa, Solomon Islands, Tonga, Vanuatu)
World Bank - Fiji
CIA World Factbook http://www.cia.gov/cia/publications/factbook/
ELDIS - Gateway to Information Sources on Development and the
Environment http://www.eldis.org/
Countries:
Australia, Fiji, Kiribati, Marshall Islands, New Caledonia, New Zealand, Papua
New Guinea, Solomon Islands, Tonga, Vanuatu)
Oneworld.net by Country http://www.oneworld.net/themes/country/
Countries:
American Samoa, Australia, Cook Islands, Fiji, Guam, Kiribati, Marshall Islands,
Micronesia, Federated States of, New Caledonia, New Zealand, Papua New Guinea,
Samoa, Solomon Islands, Tonga, Vanuatu)
United Nations Industrial Development Organization
(UNIDO) http://www.unido.org/regions.cfm?TY=R&RID=02
Asia
and Pacific country information (Australia, Cook Islands, Fiji, Kiribati,
Marshall Islands, Micronesia, Federated States of, Nauru, New Zealand, Palau,
Papua New Guinea, Samoa, Solomon Islands, Tokelau, Tonga, Vanuatu)
PORTALS/DIRECTORIES
Access New
Zealand http://accessnz.co.nz/
AUS-info Business
Directory http://www.dcp.com.au/aus-info/
Australian
National University - Asia-Pacific Internet Resources http://anulib.anu.edu.au/clusters/ap/subjects/subjects.html
National
Library of Australia http://www.nla.gov.au/oz/
National
Library of Australia - Pacific Island Resources http://www.nla.gov.au/oz/pacsites.html
Open
Directory Project http://dmoz.org/Regional/Oceania/
UBD
E-Directory (New Zealand) http://www.ubd.co.nz/
YELLOW PAGES
Australia Yellow
Pages http://www.yellowpages.com.au/
New
Zealand Yellow Pages http://www.guamchamber.com.gu/
REGIONAL SITES
Asia-Pacific Economic
Cooperation http://www.apecsec.org.sg/
Asia Pacific
Network http://www.asiapac.org.fj/
Asian
Development Bank - The Pacific http://www.adb.org/pacific/
BizAPEC http://www.bizapec.com/
Pacific Islands
Forum Secretariat http://www.forumsec.org.fj/default1.htm
(contains
Ministerial speeches, communiqués and press releases from Forum
meetings)
United States Department of the Interior-Office of Insular
Affairs http://www.doi.gov/oia/
(provides
information on Marshall Islands, Micronesia and Palau)
U.S. Dept. of State -
Bureau of East Asian and Pacific Affairs http://www.state.gov/p/eap/ci
GOVERNMENT AND STATISTICAL OFFICES
Chiefs of State
and Cabinet Members of Foreign Governments(provided by the
CIA) http://www.odci.gov/cia/publications/chiefs/index.html
Australia
Australian Bureau of Statistics http://www.abs.gov.au/
Australian
Commonwealth Government http://www.fed.gov.au/
Australian Dept. of
Foreign Affairs & Trade http://www.dfat.gov.au/
Commonwealth
Department of the Treasury http://www.treasury.gov.au/
Department
of Finance and Administration http://www.dofa.gov.au/
Monthly Economic
and Social Indicators http://www.aph.gov.au/library/pubs/mesi/
National
Competition Council http://www.ncc.gov.au/
Prime Minister of
Australia http://www.pm.gov.au/
Productivity/Industry
Commission http://www.indcom.gov.au/
New Zealand
National Bank of New Zealand - Economic
Info. http://www.nbnz.co.nz/economics/default.htm
New
Zealand Government Online - http://www.govt.nz/
New Zealand Government
Executive http://www.executive.govt.nz/
New
Zealand Ministry of Foreign Affairs & Trade http://www.mft.govt.nz/
Statistics New
Zealand, New Zealand's official statistical agency http://www.stats.govt.nz/
The
Treasury http://www.treasury.govt.nz/
Fiji Islands
Bureau of Statistics http://www.statsfiji.gov.fj/home.html/
Government
Online http://fiji.gov.fj/
Guam - Government of Guam Agencies http://ns.gov.gu/government.html
Marshall Islands -Government Online http://rmiembassyus.org/
Micronesia - Government of the Federated States of
Micronesia http://www.fsmgov.org/
Papua New Guinea Government Information http://www.tiare.net.pg/pnggov/index.html
Tonga - Government of Tonga http://www.pmo.gov.to/
CENTRAL BANKS
Reserve Bank of
Australia http://www.rba.gov.au/
Reserve Bank of
Fiji http://reservebank.gov.fj/
Reserve Bank
of New Zealand http://www.rbnz.govt.nz/
Central Bank of
Samoa http://www.cbs.gov.ws/
Central Bank of
Solomon Islands http://www.cbsi.com.sb/
TRADE AND INDUSTRY
U.S. Government Export Portal:
Country & Industry Market Research http://www.export.gov/cntryind.html
Australia
Australian Chamber of Commerce http://www.acci.asn.au/
Australian
Business, Ltd. http://www.australianbusiness.com.au/
Australian
Wool Services, Ltd. http://www.wool.com.au/
New Zealand
New Zealand Trade and Development
Board http://www.tradenz.govt.nz/
New
Zealand Chambers of Commerce http://www.chamber.co.nz/
New Zealand
Wool Board http://www.woolboard.co.nz/
Cook Islands Development Investment Board http://www.cookislands-invest.com/
Fiji Trade and Investment Bureau http://www.ftib.org.fj/
Guam Chamber of Commerce http://www.guamchamber.com.gu/
New Caledonia Chamber of Commerce and Industry http://www.cci.nc/
Papua New Guinea Investment Promotion Authority http://www.ipa.gov.pg/
Samoa Chamber of Commerce and Industry http://www.samoa.ws/coc/
STOCK EXCHANGES
Australian Stock
Exchange http://www.asx.com.au/
New Zealand Stock
Exchange http://www.nzse.co.nz/
Papua New Guinea
Port Moresby Stock Exchange (POMSoX) http://www.pomsox.com.pg/
South Pacific
Stock Exchange/Fiji’s Capital Markets Development Authority http://www.cmda.com.fj/
RESEARCH AND ECONOMIC ORGANIZATIONS
Bank of Hawaii
Economics Research Center - Pacific Islands Reports http://www.boh.com/econ/frameset.asp?name=pacific
East-West
Center http://www.eastwestcenter.org/
Pacific
Islands Report - Pacific Islands Development Program/East-West
Center http://pidp.eastwestcenter.org/pireport/text.htm
Economics
Departments, Institutes and Research Centers in the World http://netec.mcc.ac.uk/EDIRC/
The
Economic History Society of Australia and New Zealand http://www.une.edu.au/ehsanz/
New
Caledonia Economic Development Agency http://www.adecal.nc/
New Zealand
Association of Economists http://www.nzae.org.nz/
New Zealand
Institute of Economic Research http://www.nzier.org.nz/home.htm
University
of Hawaii - Center for Pacific Islands Studies http://www.hawaii.edu/cpis/
EDUCATIONAL INSTITUTIONS
Australian National
University-Asia Pacific School of Economics and Management http://apsem.anu.edu.au/
Australian
National University-Pacific Resources http://peb.anu.edu.au/resources.htm
The
University of the South Pacific http://www.usp.ac.fj/
TRAVEL/TOURISM
South Pacific Tourism
Organisation http://www.tcsp.com/
World Travel
Guide http://www.wtgonline.com/navigate/region/aus.asp
Australia http://www.australia.com/
Australian
Tourist Commission http://www.atc.net.au/
Fraser Island -
Voted one of the World’s Best Beaches http://travel.discovery.com/convergence/beachweek/fraser.html
Qantas
Airways, Ltd. http://www.qantas.com.au/
Cook Islands Tourism Corporation http://www.cook-islands.com/
Fiji Visitors Bureau http://www.bulafiji.com/ or Fiji
Online http://www.fiji-online.com.fj/
Kiribati Tourism http://www.tskl.net.ki/Kiribati/tourism/index.htm
Marshall Islands Visitor Authority http://www.yokwe-yok.com/
New Caledonia Tourism http://www.new-caledonia-tourism.nc/
New Zealand Tourism Online http://www.tourism.net.nz/
Palau Visitors’ Authority http://www.visit-palau.com/
Papua New Guinea Tourism Promotion Authority http://www.paradiselive.org.pg/
Samoa Visitors’ Bureau http://www.samoa.co.nz/
Solomon Islands Visitors’ Bureau http://www.commerce.gov.sb/tourism/index.htm
Tonga Visitors’ Bureau http://www.vacations.tvb.gov.to/
Vanuatu National Tourism Office http://www.vanuatutourism.com/
Asia-Pacific / Oceania
The Washington Post http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/world/asia/oceania/
Australia
Australian Financial Review http://www.afr.com.au/
Western Australian
Business News http://www.businessnews.com.au/
BRW http://www.brw.com.au/
Sydney Morning
Herald http://www.smh.com.au/
The Herald Sun
(Melbourne) http://www.heraldsun.news.com.au/
New Zealand
National Business Review http://www.nbr.co.nz/
New Zealand
Herald http://www.nzherald.co.nz/
The New
Zealander http://www.newzealander.co.nz/
Cook Islands
Cook Island News http://www.cinews.co.ck/
Fiji Fiji Post http://www.fijilive.com/
The Fiji Times
http://www.fijivillage.com/news/fijitimes/2205/
Guam
Pacific Daily News http://www.guampdn.com/
New Caledonia
Les Nouvelles Calédonniennes http://www.info.lnc.nc/
Northern Marina
Islands - Saipan Tribune http://www.tribune.co.mp/
Papua New Guinea
The National http://www.thenational.com.pg/
Post-Courier http://www.postcourier.com.pg/
Samoa
Samoa News http://www.samoanews.com/
Samoa
Observer http://www.samoaobserver.ws/
Tonga
Tonga Star http://www.tongastar.com/
Vanuatu
Port Vila Presse http://www.presse.com.vu/
