As the economies of these countries have diversified, their exports have increased to almost three times what they were 2 decades ago. But the gains have been intermittent—and countries need to do more to access Asian markets to boost export revenues further.

Businesses need to be able to ship more to export markets. Instead of maintaining trade barriers, governments should support them and help link them to buyers and distributors.

Those are some of the hurdles discussed in the policy brief by Wawan Juswanto and Zulfiqar Ali of the Asian Development Bank Institute.

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https://www.adb.org/publications/economic-growth-and-sustainable-development-pacific-island-countries

About the authors

Wawan Juswanto is special advisor to the dean of the Asian Development Bank Institute (ADBI).

Zulfiqar Ali was a research associate at ADBI at the time this policy brief was written.

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