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	Fiji - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The Republic of the Fiji Islands, or Fiji, is an island nation in the South Pacific Ocean, east of Vanuatu, west of Tonga and south of Tuvalu.
		Fiji's membership of the Commonwealth of Nations was suspended due to the anti-democratic activities connected with the 2000 coup.
		The population of Fiji is divided between native Fijians, a people of mixed Polynesian and Melanesian ancestory (54.3%), and Indo-Fijians (38.1%), descendants of Indian contract labourers brought to the islands by the British in the 19th century.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Fiji (2017 words)

	Encyclopedia: Economy of Fiji
		Endowed with forest, mineral, and fish resources, Fiji is one of the most developed of the Pacific island economies, though it remains a developing country with a large subsistence agriculture sector.
		Fiji's Bureau of Statistics recorded 3595 workers as having left the country between January and August 2004.
		Fiji's growth slowed in 1997 because the sugar industry suffered from low world prices and rent disputes between farmers and landowners, a sensitive issue in Fijian politics, with 83.2 percent of the land held in inalienable rights by indigenous Fijians.
	www.nationmaster.com /encyclopedia/Economy-of-Fiji (5050 words)

	Fiji Economy (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		Fiji is one of the most developed of the Pacific island economies, although it remains a developing country with a large subsistence agriculture sector.
		The Government of Fiji reported that growth was driven by a recovery in the tourism industry as well as by improved performance in mining, the harvesting and processing of mahogany, and fresh fish exports.
		Fiji's two largest exports are sugar and garments, with each accounting for about one-quarter of export revenue in 2004--roughly $145 million each.
	www.traveldocs.com /fj/economy.htm (686 words)

	WTO \| Trade policy review - Fiji 1997
		Fiji's economy faces numerous challenges as it tries to diversify away from traditional exports, continue with its economic reforms and attract higher levels of foreign investment.
		Fiji is a small, island nation in the South-Pacific whose economy relies strongly on sugar, tourism and a newly emerged clothing sector.
		Fiji is committed to and will continue to provide support to the private sector in the future through provision of competitive enterprise environment, improvement in economic infrastructure, and development of human resources.
	www.wto.org /english/tratop_e/tpr_e/tp53_e.htm (7899 words)

	Fiji. The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition. 2001-05
		Fiji’s fertile soil yields sugarcane, tropical fruits, taro, cotton, pineapples, bananas, wood, and coconuts.
		The first Europeans to visit Fiji were the Dutch navigator Abel Tasman in 1643 and British Capt. James Cook in 1774.
		Fiji was declared a republic and left the Commonwealth.
	www.bartleby.com /65/fi/Fiji.html (918 words)

	Fiji (09/05)
		Fiji was readmitted to the Commonwealth in October.
		Fiji is host for the secretariat of the 16-nation Pacific Islands Forum, as well as a number of other prestigious regional organizations.
		Fiji became the 127th member of the United Nations on October 13, 1970, and participates actively in the organization.
	www.state.gov /r/pa/ei/bgn/1834.htm (3629 words)

	Fiji and the Sugar Protocol
		Fiji is one of the largest of the Pacific island countries.
		These two benefits to the Fijian economy can be witnessed in a range of areas: higher production; increased employment in the farm and milling sectors; better incomes for landowners, growers and millers; and the knock-on effects of stable earnings on living standards not only in the sugar community but throughout the country.
		Sugar has been a source of social stability in Fiji, but as we have explained, it appears that the benefits of the Sugar Protocol are unlikely to continue at their current level or in their present form in the next century.
	www.ecdpm.org /pubs/wp17_gb.htm (3891 words)

	CNN.com - Fiji's economy slips and slides - February 18, 2001
		SUVA, Fiji (CNN) -- Fiji's economy is continuing to weaken in the wake of last year's political turmoil, according to the latest survey by the Reserve Bank of Fiji.
		Fiji's economy is based largely on sugar exports, textile and garment manufacturing, mining and tourism.
		Fiji's economy is worth about $6 billion, with the biggest contributor being services at 58 percent, followed by agriculture (16 percent), manufacturing (15 percent) and other industry (11 percent).
	archives.cnn.com /2001/WORLD/asiapcf/auspac/02/18/fiji.economy (442 words)

	Fiji's Economy (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		Fourth quarter assessments indicate that the economy is recovering incrementally.
		The Fiji economy has achieved a reasonable degree of diversification that enables it to withstand reasonable shocks such as that experienced in 2000.
		The economy is largely based on private enterprise, with government ownership of service utilities, the national airline Air Pacific, Fiji Post and Telecommunications Limited and the Fiji Sugar Corporation Limited which mills all the country's sugar.
	www.ftib.org.fj /contents/fiji_economy/aboutfj/economy.htm (441 words)

	About Fiji - Economy
		Similarly, the economies of all our major trading partners are anticipated to record positive growth, due to the strong recovery in the US and Euro zone.
		Domestically, there are indications that the Fiji economy will achieve its growth projection of 4.1 percent for 2004 after expanding by an estimated 5.0 percent in 2003.
		Fiji’s current foreign reserves are sufficient to cover 3.1 months of imports of goods and non-factor services or 4.6 months of imports of goods only.
	www.fijihighcommission.org.uk /about_3.html (550 words)

	Economy of Fiji -- Facts, Info, and Encyclopedia article (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		Forestry became important as an export trade in the mid- (The decade from 1980 to 1989) 1980s, when the pine plantations planted in the (The decade from 1950 to 1959) 1950s and (The decade from 1960 to 1969) 1960s began to mature.
		Since 1987, when the country was destabilized by two (Click link for more info and facts about military coups) military coups, Fiji has suffered a very high rate of (Migration from a place (especially migration from your native country in order to settle in another)) emigration, particularly of skilled and professional personnel.
		Further damage to the economy (estimated at US$30 million) was wrought by a cyclone that hit the northern island of (A volcanic island in the Fijis) Vanua Levu in January 2003.
	www.absoluteastronomy.com /encyclopedia/e/ec/economy_of_fiji.htm (1084 words)

	MapZones.com : Fiji Economy (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		Fiji’s economy is dependent on the sugar industry and tourism.
		In 1999 Fiji’s labor force stood at 319,599; most people were employed in salaried or wage positions.
		Fiji is strategically located for air travelers from Australia, New Zealand, the United States, and Japan and is a major destination for tourist cruises.
	www.mapzones.com /world/pacific/fiji/economyindex.php (378 words)

	Fiji History, Fiji Flag, Culture of Fiji Island, History of Fiji, Economy of Fiji
		The flag of Fiji is light blue, with the flag of the UK in the upper hoist-side quadrant and the Fijian shield centered on the outer half of the flag.
		The economy of Fiji is mainly governed by the sugar industry and tourism.
		While mining, manufacturing, and construction industries, employing 34 percent of Fiji's wage-earners, contributed 29 percent of GDP in 2000; the agriculture, forestry, and fishing sectors, engaging 2 percent of Fiji's workers, contributed 18 percent of the GDP in the same year.
	www.mapsofworld.com /country-profile/fiji1.html (555 words)

	Bankintroductions.com - FIJI
		Fiji achieved independence in 1970 from the United Kingdom, this south Pacific island nation is fragmented between Fijians of ethnic Indian descent who account for 44 percent of Fiji’s 868,000 people and the indigenous native Fijians who represent 51 percent.
		The emigration of ethnic Indian Fijians is one of the main factors for the decline in Fiji’s economy.
		Fiji by many measures is considered to be a sugar based economy and hence vulnerable to drought, particularly the drought of 1997 which was considered to be the worst in Fiji’s history, thus weakening economic growth from lower yielding sugar production.
	www.bankintroductions.com /fiji.html (1945 words)

	ipedia.com: Economy of Fiji Article (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		Fiji runs a persistently large trade deficit, although its tourism revenue yields a services surplus which keeps the current account of its balance of payments roughly in balance.
		Fiji's two largest exports are sugar and garments, which each accounted for approximately one-quarter of export revenue in 1998 (roughly $122 million each).
		The economy is estimated to have contracted by about 10% due to the disruptions from the 2000 political turmoil.
	www.ipedia.com /economy_of_fiji.html (864 words)

	Fiji - Gurupedia
		The Republic of the Fiji Islands occupies an archipelago in the South Pacific Ocean, east of
		Although it has been influenced by prolonged contact with speakers of Polynesian languages such as Tongan, it is related more closely to the Melanesian branch of the Austronesian family, which includes languages of western Pacific nations such as Vanuatu and New Caledonia.
		Methodist church is the largest denomination; with about a quarter of the total population (including about 48 percent of ethnic Fijians), it has a higher percentage of the population in Fiji than in any other country.
	www.gurupedia.com /f/fi/fiji.htm (1288 words)

	Fiji
		Fiji, which had been inhabited since the second millennium B.C., was explored by the Dutch and the British in the 17th and 18th centuries.
		Fiji: Economy - Economy Fiji's fertile soil yields sugarcane, tropical fruits, taro, cotton, pineapples, bananas,...
		Fiji: Land - Land Fiji comprises c.320 islands, of which some 105 are inhabited.
	www.infoplease.com /ipa/A0107509.html (921 words)

	Fiji -> Economy on Encyclopedia.com 2002 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		Fiji's uncertain return to democracy: John Henderson comments on the outcome of the recent general election in Fiji and its implications for New Zealand's relations with Fiji.
		Fiji: the limits of ethnic political mobilisation.(Fijian political developments seen from a wider perspective than ethnic conflict)
		The Fiji Coup: Clash of Ethnic Nationalism and Multiculturalism.
	www.encyclopedia.com /html/section/Fiji_Economy.asp (445 words)

	Café Pacific: Asia-Pacific Network: Fiji
		He said a new constitution and a rehabilitated and revitalised economy were vital building blocks for enduring peace, stability, progress and spiritual rejuvenation in the country.
		According to Fiji Trades Union Congress president Daniel Urai, the interim government would not be taken seriously because of members who were involved in the illegal takeover of the elected government.
		One of the two indigenous deputy prime ministers in the Chaudhry government is among many people who have condemned the swearing in of the interim administration as discriminatory and outside the 1997 democratic constitution (abrogated by the military in a decree on May 30).
	www.asiapac.org.fj /cafepacific/resources/aspac/fiji28indy.html (1297 words)

	Waikato University Fiji Student Association
		Fiji is a group of 300 islands in the middle of the South Pacific Ocean, about midway between Australia and Hawaii.
		The two major islands in Fiji are Viti Levu and Vanua Levu, with Viti Levu being the larger of the two.
		Fiji's economy revolves around sugar production, tourism, mining, fishing, timber and garment manufacture along with a host of supporting industries in the manufacturing and agricultural sectors.
	au.geocities.com /waikatofijiclub/fiji.htm (817 words)

	Doom predicted for Fiji's economy (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		Shah delivered this warning at the Economic Association Forum meeting, organized by the Reserve Bank of Fiji (RBF), on June 7, 2004 at the RBF Headquarters in Suva.
		"There should be no doubt that Fijis current economic problems, in most part, are the consequence of political choices the country made following the 1987 coup, of which the drying up its private sector investment is probably the most significant, and also the most enduring, outcome".
		Shah "Fiji's economic outlook is grave, contrary to Government's pronouncements of five percent and now eight percent GDP growth targets when realities on ground point that the economy would return to 2-3 percent or lower rate of long-term growth at the end of the current cycle, most likely in the next 2 years".
	www.flp.org.fj /n040616.htm (415 words)

	Regional Oceania Fiji Business and Economy Industries (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		Emperor Mines Ltd - Details of a gold mine operator at Vatukoula, that is Fiji's largest private employer and generator of foreign income.
		Fiji Gas - Distributors of L.P. gas (butane), domestic cookers, commercial catering equipment, industrial burners and the design, installation and maintenance of hot water systems.
		Fiji Pine Limited - Fiji Pine Limited is a public company incorporated in 1990 as part of the corporatisation of Fiji Pine Commission.
	www.iper1.com /iper1-odp/scat/id/Regional/Oceania/Fiji/Business_and_Economy/Industries (526 words)

	Fiji (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		The upper chamber of the parliament, the Senate, has 32 members, formally appointed by the President on the nomination of the Great Council of Chiefs (14), the Prime Minister (9), the Leader of the Opposition (8), and the Rotuman Islands Council (1).
		The only major skyscraper in all of Fiji is the 14-story Reserve Bank of Fiji Building in Suva.
		The population of Fiji is divided almost equally between native Fijians, a people of mixed Polynesian and Melanesian ancestory (51%), and Indo-Fijians (43.7%), descendent of Indian contract laborers brought to the islands by the British in the 19th century.
	www.yotor.com /wiki/en/fi/Fiji.htm (1409 words)

	Fiji Economy 1991 - Flags, Maps, Economy, Geography, Climate, Natural Resources, Current Issues, International ...
		Overview: Fiji's economy is primarily agricultural, with a large subsistence sector.
		Fiji traditionally had earned considerable sums of hard currency from the 250,000 tourists who visited each year.
		In 1990 the economy received a setback from cyclone Sina which cut sugar output by an estimated 21%.
	www.theodora.com /wfb1991/fiji/fiji_economy.html (357 words)

	Go Asia Pacific Breaking News Pacific - Australia says sugar preferences restrict Fiji's economy (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		An Australian Government authority has criticised the European Union's system of sugar trade preferences, saying growth in the Fiji economy is being held back.
		and that's going to be good for their economy in the longer term.
		Fiji police chief rejects suggestions of rising religious intolerance
	www.abc.net.au /asiapacific/news/GoAsiaPacificBNP_939390.htm (211 words)

	Fiji Resorts - Economy Accommodation (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		Comprehensive listings of fiji economy accommodation for your holidays.
		fiji resorts ; cook islands resorts ; samoa resorts ; tonga resorts ; tahiti resorts ; hawaii resorts ;
		All pictures have been taken by us to provide an unbiased and realistic vision of the location and independent hotel inspections are conducted on at least a yearly basis to ensure the standards offered meet your expectations.
	www.fiji.pacific-resorts.com /economy.html (338 words)

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