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Transparent trade: Enhancing Australia’s trust and food provenance through supply chain traceability systems

ROBIN E ROBERTS  |  Australia’s strong bilateral relationship with Vietnam has opened significant opportunities for agricultural exporters. With Vietnam’s rising incomes and increasingly affluent… Read More

2024: A year of transformation in Asia and the Pacific

CHRISTOPH NEDOPIL  |  The Asia-Pacific region continues to dominate global headlines, with a year full of political shifts, economic developments, climate actions, and strategic… Read More

Resilience and challenges: A decade of insights from the Pacific Islands Export Survey

LUKE HOUGHTON | For the past decade, the Pacific Islands Export Survey, conducted biennially by Pacific Trade Invest (PTI) with support from the Pacific Islands… Read More

Driving economic resilience: Pacific Trade Invest’s decade of progress

LUKE HOUGHTON | Download PDF Citation: Houghton, Luke, 2024, Driving economic resilience: Pacific Trade Investment’s decade of progress, Griffith Asia Institute,… Read More

Enhancing the ecosystem for entrepreneurship and innovation in the Pacific

SHAWN HUNTER, SAMEER DESHPANDE, RON BEVACQUA , JEFF LIEW AND PETER MORGAN  | Download PDF Citation: Hunter, Shawn, Deshpande, Sameer,… Read More

Bubble trouble: Why speculation in China’s commodity market affects the world

JOHN FAN AND NEDA TODOROVA  |  Commodity price bubbles can have a huge impact on economies, but what exactly causes them? In simple… Read More

Advancing circular innovation ecosystems in regional Indonesia: A path to sustainable development

ANYA PHELAN AND GUNARO SETIAWAN |  The transition to a circular economy has become essential in addressing the environmental and social challenges we face… Read More

Empowering smallholder farmers through AI: A new era for Vietnam’s agriculture

SARA QUACH THAICHON  |  Vietnam has undergone a remarkable transformation over the past few decades. From a food-insecure country, it has emerged as one… Read More

Harnessing technology for small business growth in the Pacific

JEFF LIEW  |   Small business owners like Rosa have embarked on their entrepreneurial journey with a dream of seeking financial stability and independence. But… Read More

Digital economies in the Pacific 

DOMINIC LEONG AND SHELDON CHANEL  | Recent development initiatives in the Pacific have focussed on building the conditions for digital economies to… Read More