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Accounting For Change: Bringing Interdependence Into Defining Sustainability, Karen L. Nero Dec 1999

Accounting For Change: Bringing Interdependence Into Defining Sustainability, Karen L. Nero

Pacific Studies

“Sustainability,” the key word of international development bodies currently intervening in the restructuring of the Marshall Islands economy, is defined within Western economic conceptualizations. I argue that such characterizations are incomplete: they fail to capture the full nature of the ongoing Marshallese economy by focusing too narrowly on transfers related to the Compact of Free Association and by their partial understanding of Marshallese food systems and easy dichotomies between imported and local foods. The segregation of external interventions by sector further distorts their possible impact. Structural imbalances within the Marshallese and other Pacific nations’ economies have been exacerbated by the …


New Trends In Micronesian Migration: Fsm Migration To Guam And The Marianas, 1990-1993, Francis X. Hezel, S. J., Michael J. Levin Mar 1996

New Trends In Micronesian Migration: Fsm Migration To Guam And The Marianas, 1990-1993, Francis X. Hezel, S. J., Michael J. Levin

Pacific Studies

No abstract provided.


Linking Colonization And Decolonization: The Case Of Micronesia, Timothy J. Gaffaney Jun 1995

Linking Colonization And Decolonization: The Case Of Micronesia, Timothy J. Gaffaney

Pacific Studies

No abstract provided.


Terminating Trusteeship For The Federated States Of Micronesia And The Republic Of The Marshall Islands: Independence And Self-Sufficiency In The Post-Cold War Pacific, Ellen Boneparth, M. James Wilkinson Jun 1995

Terminating Trusteeship For The Federated States Of Micronesia And The Republic Of The Marshall Islands: Independence And Self-Sufficiency In The Post-Cold War Pacific, Ellen Boneparth, M. James Wilkinson

Pacific Studies

No abstract provided.


A Marshallese Nation Emerges From The Political Fragmentation Of American Micronesia, Leonard Mason Nov 1989

A Marshallese Nation Emerges From The Political Fragmentation Of American Micronesia, Leonard Mason

Pacific Studies

No abstract provided.


The Great Flight Northward: Fsm Migration To Guam And The Northern Mariana Islands, Francis X. Hezel, Michael J. Levin Nov 1989

The Great Flight Northward: Fsm Migration To Guam And The Northern Mariana Islands, Francis X. Hezel, Michael J. Levin

Pacific Studies

No abstract provided.


Elections, Compact, And Assassination In The Republic Of Palau, Donald R. Shuster Sep 1988

Elections, Compact, And Assassination In The Republic Of Palau, Donald R. Shuster

Pacific Studies

No abstract provided.


Elections, Compact, And Assassination In The Republic Of Palau, Donald R. Shuster Sep 1988

Elections, Compact, And Assassination In The Republic Of Palau, Donald R. Shuster

Pacific Studies

No abstract provided.