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Category : Economic development projects
Languages : en
Pages : 90

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Author: International Monetary Fund
Publisher: International Monetary Fund
ISBN: 1451920695
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 110

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This paper focuses on key findings of the detailed assessment of observance of standards and codes in the financial sector of the Cook Islands (CI). The new legal framework in CI represents an important first step in correcting deficiencies, as they are all addressed in the new set of laws. The framework empowers the Financial Services Commission to license, supervise, and regulate the financial sector. It also provides it with enforcement authority in the event of noncompliance with the law, and to cooperate with foreign supervisors where necessary for implementation of comprehensive supervision on a consolidated basis.

Author: Asian Development Bank
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Category : Civil service
Languages : en
Pages : 18

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Author: Asian Development Bank
Publisher: Asian Development Bank
ISBN: 9292571486
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 251

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The Cook Islands is among the best performing Pacific island economies, with many structures in place that support private sector investment, including an internationally competitive tax regime, an open trade regime, and good standards of education and health care. Future prospects are positive due to the growing tourism sector, and potential resource revenues from seabed minerals prospecting activities are another favorable development. The Government of the Cook Islands is committed to pursuing sustainable development through private-sector-led growth. Yet, the Cook Islands faces significant challenges in realizing its full potential, including a sluggish business entry process that discourages foreign investment, inadequate infrastructure that threatens to degrade the natural environment, complex land ownership and inadequate land use planning processes, and a weak collateral framework.

Author: International Monetary Fund. Asia and Pacific Dept
Publisher: International Monetary Fund
ISBN: 1513510894
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 37

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This technical assistance mission report underlines efforts to estimate the economic and revenue contributions of the international financial services industry in the Cook Islands. This report discusses the data and methodology used and presents the results. One matter that has been raised is that international companies are exempt from all taxes in the Cook Islands. The economic contribution of the international financial services industry can be measured by the value added of resident institutional units engaged, directly or indirectly, in the production of international financial services in the Cook Islands. The production of international financial services generates income which is distributed to the various agents or groups of agents who use that income to acquire goods and services for consumption now or later. The international financial services industry also contributes indirectly to gross domestic product through two channels. The first channel is through the goods and services that the industry purchases from other suppliers, such as electricity, accounting services, telecommunications, etc.

Author: Asian Development Bank
Publisher: Asian Development Bank
ISBN: 9292575287
Category : Political Science
Languages : en
Pages : 134

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The Asian Development Bank (ADB) is committed to developing and updating a comprehensive set of comparable and accessible data to help measure performance of social protection programs in Asia and the Pacific. This 2016 report is the first comprehensive assessment of government social protection programs in 13 Pacific island countries, while a similar report presents data collected for 25 countries in Asia. This publication is an update of the 2013 report, The Social Protection Index: Assessing Results for Asia and the Pacific. It is intended to help monitor and assess the nature of government social insurance, social assistance, and labor market programs in the Pacific.

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Category : Government publications
Languages : en
Pages : 1060

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Category : Commerce
Languages : en
Pages : 740

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Author: Asian Development Bank
Publisher: Asian Development Bank
ISBN: 9292571907
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 290

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Cook Islands has transformed its economy since the public debt crisis of the mid-1990s. The economy is private sector-led, the Government is now on a sound financial footing and well placed to address key development issues, and the economy has proved its resilience in the face of five cyclones in 2005. The tourism sector remains the main driver of growth and visitor arrivals are expected to continue to grow. Infrastructure works are a development priority, both to support economic growth and to address the rising pressures on the all-important natural environment. Improved education services are needed to meet the ever-rising expectations of the population, and the aging population and steady rise in noncommunicable disease are placing new pressures on the health and welfare systems. The gap between living standards on the main centers of Rarotonga and Aiututaki and the outer islands is a further key development issue. Continued improvement in institutional performance lies at the heart of an effective response to these needs. This report discusses options for responding to these needs with a view to helping guide public policy formulation in the Cook Islands.

Author: United States. Congress
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Languages : en
Pages : 1842

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