Looking at the weighted averages of the International Monetary Fund’s (IMF’s) July 2017 projections for real GDP growth rates of individual economies and regions, by value of exports from Japan, the growth rates of overseas economies are projected to increase moderately through 2018 from 3.1 percent in 2016, and remain stable at around 3.5 percent.
While the mitigating factors that the Government has introduced will alleviate the burden on the poor, the more relevant question to me is: “What is the most effective way to reduce poverty in Fiji?” And there are bound to be more than one solution. It would have to be a package.