@article{oai:ir.kagoshima-u.ac.jp:00004857,
 author = {IWAKIRI, Shigero and RAM, Vina},
 issue = {1},
 journal = {鹿児島大学水産学部紀要=Memoirs of Faculty of Fisheries Kagoshima University},
 month = {2016-10-28},
 note = {The small island economies of the South Pacific share several basic problems due to their size and
isolation. Many of these problems are multiplied because of the small land masses, lack of basic
mineral and industrial raw materials, distances from major metropolitan markets, small domestic
markets, diseconomies of scale in production and so on.
Taking into account the basic characteristics of the small isolated island economies of the South
Pacific such as maintaining traditional communal structures and a subsistence lifestyle together with
varying degrees of industrial progress, the present study therefore does not rely solely on modern
economics as methodology for analysis of the structure of island economies, but adopts a wider
perspective using the classical tools and principles of economic and social progress.
In this study, the general economics of the island societies have been analysed from the industrial
development point of view, concentrating not only in areas of capitalistic and entrepreneual
development but also pointing out the presence of opposite relations of the backward characteristics
with are existing alongside with this modernised economic system.},
 pages = {1--31},
 title = {Basic Characteristics of Small Island Economies in the South Pacific : A Case Study of Fiji},
 volume = {38},
 year = {}
}