This study fills a huge gap in the literature by examining the impacts of microfinance, and financial and social capital on the performance of microenterprises in the case of Indonesia. The ordered probit results of the data collected via a survey of respondents shows a negative relationship...

Worldwide, mobile phones are rapidly changing the approach and strategies for micro, small and large businesses alike. Yet, little remains known about policy and infrastructure constraints that might impede their use for growth of businesses, especially in the case of microenterprises in...

Fiji's thirty-five year old stock market remains persistently small and inactive but the state's drive to retain and develop it remains equally unwavering. Numerous strategies have been tried and tested with little attention however to the issue of ‘small scale'. Inspired by the increasing...

This paper examines the role of inflation expectations in Solomon Islands, a Pacific Island Country, using the Hybrid New Keynesian Phillips Curve model. The study applies the Generalized Method of Moments to estimate the Hybrid New Keynesian Philips Curve model using quarterly time series data...

This is the first study to systematically assess the significance of the standard money multiplier vis-à-vis the bank credit transmission channel in the case of Pacific Island Economies, focusing on Papua New Guinea. The vector autoregressive model comprising six variables - interest rate,...