Shoot the messenger : the report on the Nuka'alofa reconstruction project and why the Government of Tonga dumped it / Teena Brown Pulu ; [foreword by Kalafi Moala].

By:

Brown Pulu, Teena

Material type: Text

TextPublication details: Nuku'alofa, Tonga : Taimi Publishers, c2011.Description: vi, 171 pages : illustrations ; 22 cmContent type:

text

Media type:

unmediated

Carrier type:

volume

ISBN:

9780473205591
0473205599

Subject(s):

DDC classification:

320.99612 23

Contents:

pt. 1. Political landscape -- pt. 2. The report: The way forward -- Guide to how the loan works -- Get the facts right -- Separate regulatory from operational -- NDC system in a nutshell -- Strength based recommendations -- Fieldwork sites -- Fieldwork summary -- Summary of findings.

Summary: "Report on the Nuku'alofa reconstruction project that was authorised by the Prime Minister of Tonga in April 2011. The report was not well received by his office and has never been released. What was so dangerous about this report that the Prime Minister's Office felt compelled to hide its content from public knowledge? Teena Brown Pulu, the report's author, sets the research that underpinned it in the political context of Tonga's struggling democratic reform, a small island developing state in global financial crisis, and the current government which operates by responding to varied interests and pressure groups, rather than as a coalition with a comprehensive social and economic vision. She offers a critique of factors producing a weak democratic state subject to the power of aid donor countries and regional policy in the South Pacific Islands, and entangled in how to systematically modify governance and society"--Back cover.

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Item type	Current library	Call number	Status	Barcode
Texts - cam	TNU, Faculty of Education, Arts and Humanities Pasifika Collection	PAC 320.99612 BRO (Browse shelf(Opens below))	Not for loan	FEAH25010787

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"Report on the Nuku'alofa reconstruction project that was authorised by the Prime Minister of Tonga in April 2011. The report was not well received by his office and has never been released. What was so dangerous about this report that the Prime Minister's Office felt compelled to hide its content from public knowledge? Teena Brown Pulu, the report's author, sets the research that underpinned it in the political context of Tonga's struggling democratic reform, a small island developing state in global financial crisis, and the current government which operates by responding to varied interests and pressure groups, rather than as a coalition with a comprehensive social and economic vision. She offers a critique of factors producing a weak democratic state subject to the power of aid donor countries and regional policy in the South Pacific Islands, and entangled in how to systematically modify governance and society"--Back cover.