Our Training and Productivity Authority of Fiji (TPAF), whose vision is to become the Centre of Excellence in Training and Productivity, should be commended for much progress in the area of education and training. It is good to be told that TPAF and government are revising the Productivity Charter for Fiji.
In the 1980s there were numerous books and articles predicting that Japan would soon overtake the US as the world’s largest economy, and by implication that its corporatist approach was superior to more market-based approaches. In the first half of the 1990s Australia was regularly criticised for lacking the vigour of the emerging-market Asian economies (the Tigers) with their activist government-led development approach.