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PSDI hosts waste management seminars in Dili
Country Dirctor of ADB's Timor-Leste Resident Mission, PaoloSpantigati, speaks at the opening of PSDI's solid wastemanagement seminar for government representatives. PSDI hosted half-day seminars in...
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Timor-Leste launches PSDI-supported anti-money laundering and...
Timor-Leste Minister of Justice Ivo Valente launches the AML/CFTpapers in Dili on October 7. Photo courtesy of the Office of the Minister of Justice Timor-Leste.Two PSDI-supported plans that will help...
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PSDI presents draft competition policy in Vanuatu
Acting Director General of the Ministry of Tourism, Trade, Commerceand Ni-Vanuatu Business George Borugu (standing, right) opens thepublic workshop in Port Vila on 12 October.A consultation draft of...
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PSDI co-hosts Pacific pension funds workshop
The panel for the session titled Regulating Provident Funds and Retirement Funds was comprised of (L to R) Raynold Moveni from the Central Bank of SolomonIslands, Vilimaina Dakai of the Reserve Bank of...
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PSDI case study: How engaging the private sector invigorated Samoa’s...
A new PSDI case study examines Samoa’s success in contracting out its road building and maintenance work.In 2002, Samoa’s Public Works Department was radically restructured, changing from a public...
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Expanded online registry featuring foreign investment and business names...
Amila Salgado from ADB's Solomon Islands Extended Mission speaks at the launch of Solomon Islands expanded online business registry.Applications for foreign investment licenses and business name...
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Finding Balance 2016 and regional ports pricing study presented in Solomon...
Laure Darcy, PSDI's SOE Reform Team Leader, presents findings and recommendation relating to Solomon Islands from Finding Balance 2016. Solomon Islands-related findings and recommendations from Finding...
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Op-ed: Win-win-win for Samoa SOE reform
Samoa’s success in outsourcing its road building and maintenance services provides ofmodel for state-owned enterprise reform that other countries should consider. Reforms to state owned enterprises...
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Op-ed: Credit can increase without government guarantees
Government guarantees of bank loans do little to extend access to credit. A betterapproach is to encourage lenders to improve their services. Accessing credit is difficult for businesses in the...
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Infographic brochures explain what we do and why we do it
A new series of three-page, infographic brochures provides an overview of the context, aims, and achievements of PSDI.Using clear and accessible text and images, these booklets illustrate the need for...
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New PSDI report challenges use of credit guarantees
This 20-page report challenges the use of government-sponsored loan guarantees as a way of overcoming the lack of lending in the Pacific.Credit Guarantees: Challenging Their Role in Improving Access to...
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Project to help establish renewable energy in rural PNG
PSDI SOE Reform Expert Laure Darcy inspects a proposed solarfarm site in Alotau.A PSDI initiative to introduce private sector-provided solar power to provincial electricity grids in Papua New Guinea is...
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PSDI prepares technical support program for PNG’s Independent Consumer and...
ICCC teams review the findings of PSDI's capability assessment and present ideasfor how they could respond to them. PSDI hosted a capability assessment workshop with staff from the Independent...
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New series of PSDI case studies examines private sector’s role in public...
A new series of PSDI case studies profiles the range of private sector involvement in public service delivery in the Pacific.Our first three Case Studies in Private Sector Participation look at private...
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PSDI-drafted report on improving PNG’s competition and consumer framework...
The consultation draft of a report produced by PSDI as part of the Papua New Guinea’s Consumer and Competition Framework Review (CCFR) has been released for public comment.The CCFR’s Public Report and...
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Private sector assessment for Palau: high-end tourism best option for...
Strong economic growth is masking urgent infrastructure and environmental challenges that threaten the long term sustainability of Palau’s economy, says our private sector assessment published...
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Secured transactions registry launched in Samoa
Seated (left to right) at the launch of the Personal Property Securities Registry are ADB’steam of consultants that supported development of the registry: Anthony Frazier, Paul Rankin, Gary Sin and...
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PSDI hosts Fifth Pacific Business Registries Workshop
PSDI hosted its 5th Pacific Business Registries Workshop in Sydney on 2-3 March.The workshop, co-hosted with the New Zealand Companies Office, brought together staff from business and secured...
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A Decade of Reform: PSDI 2015-2016 Annual Progress Report published
PSDI’s latest annual report, A Decade of Reform, looks back on our work since 2006, noting numerous successes in removing numerous barriers to private sector investment and entrepreneurship.“PSDI’s...
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Tonga becomes first Pacific country to publish detailed SOE performance...
The updated website was launched by Poasi Tei, Minister of Public Enterprises (fourthfrom left). Also pictured at the launch are Sione ‘Akau’ola, CEO, Ministry of PublicEnterprises; Christine Ford,...
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PSDI pilot project finishes training Fijian women professionals
Graduates of PSDI's Women in Leadership Program in Suva on November 30.A group of 25 women employees of companies listed on Fiji’s South Pacific Stock Exchange (SPSE) graduated today from a PSDI pilot...
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With PSDI-supported website, Solomon Islands becomes the first Melanesian...
ADB Solomon Islands' Amila Salgado shows Harry Kuma, Solomon Islands PermanentSecretary of Finance and Treasury, some of the features of the state-owned enterprise portal. In a first for Melanesia,...
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New Companies Law approved in Timor-Leste meets global best practice and will...
PSDI has been supporting the Government of Timor-Leste’s ongoing commercial and economic legislative reforms. A successful outcome of this support was the approval of a new Companies Law on 17 May 2017...
View ArticleTransition to the cloud makes PNG’s business registry safer and more reliable
Information stored on Papua New Guinea’s online business registry is now more secure, and the registry more accessible, after PSDI helped it migrate from outdated office-based servers to cloud-based...
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