Aid, trade and taboo: the place of indigenous traditional knowledge in development strategies: a Pacific perspective

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Table 1. An overview of PICs.

Country	SIDs	LDC	Population: mid-2013 estimate	Land sq. km.	Sea EEZ sq.km.	GDP US$ thousands
Cook Islands	Yes		15,200	237	1.8 million	272,769
Federated States of Micronesia	Yes		103,000	701	2.9 million	310,213
Fiji	Yes		859,200	18,333	1.26 million	3,099,191
Kiribati	Yes	Yes	108,800	811	3.6 million	170,542
Marshall Islands	Yes		54,200	181	2.1 million	173,700
Nauru	Yes		10,500	21	320,000	85,337
Niue	Yes		1500	259	389,000	22,857
Palau	Yes		17,800	444	600,900	212,903
PNG	Yes		7,398,500	462,840	3.1 million	127,000,000
Samoa	Yes	Yes	187,400	2,924	120,000	675,729
Solomon Islands	Yes	Yes	610,000	28,000	1.6 million	927,390
Tokelau	Not listed		1200	12	n/a	n/a
Tonga	Yes		103,300	749	700,000	470,669
Tuvalu	Yes	Yes	10,900	26	757,000	38,178
Vanuatu	Yes	Yes	264,700	12,281	680,000	760,097

Sources: EEZ, Exclusive Economic Zone; GDP, Gross Domestic Product; LDC data, Development Policy and Analysis Division un.org; SIDS data sidsnet.org; Land mass, population and GDP, SPC Statistics for Development Pocket Summary and Population Poster (2013); EEZ Pacific Islands Forum Secretariat, Member Countries forumsec.org.

Table 2. PICs treaty membership.

PIC	UNDRIP	TRIPS	WTO	CBD	TPGRFA	Other
Cook Islands				Yes	Yes
FSM	Voted yes
Fiji	Absent	Yes		Yes		Berne Convention^a
Kiribati	Absent			Yes	Yes
Marshall Islands				Yes	Yes
Nauru	Absent			Yes
Niue				Yes
Palau	Absent
PNG	Absent	Yes		Yes		Paris Convention^b
Samoa	Abstained			Yes	Yes
Solomon Islands	Absent	Yes		Yes
Tokelau
Tonga	Absent			Yes		Paris Convention; Berne Convention
Tuvalu	Absent			Yes
Vanuatu	Absent			Yes

^aBerne Convention for the Protection of Literary and Artistic Works.

^bParis Convention for the Protection of Industrial Property.

Secretariat of the Pacific Community. 2013. Statistics for Development Pocket Summary and Population Poster. Accessed February 7, 2014. www.spc.int/sdd/

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