The Vanuatu Business Outlook
The Vanuatu Chamber of Commerce recently commissioned a survey of the private sector to provide a snapshot of the effect the economic crisis created by the Corona...
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Economic update 2020
In March, due to the threat posed by COVID-19, the Vanuatu Government closed its border sand in doing so, closed down the Tourism Sector. There were great concerns...
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The Vanuatu Economic Stimulus Package ( ESP)
On the 31st March a little over a week after the 2020 national elections, the outgoing caretaker Prime Minister, Charlot Salwai, issued a statement in response to the...
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WORLDWIDE BANKING CRISIS?
Vanuatu Banks have been a critical and important part of how businesses affected by the Economic crisis created by COVID-19 are managing their situation. When we run...
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Business Strategies to Survive the COVID-19 Crisis
Internationally, Economists are predicting that the COVID-19 Crisis will result in the worst recession since the Great Depression in the 1920s. Business owners are...
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COVID-19 and the economy
As the Vanuatu Government closes the borders in response to the threat of COVID-19, the country’s Tourism and Hospitality sector has shut down. Air Vanuatu has...
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Foreign Investment in Vanuatu and the new ‘VIPA’ Act
On 15 January 2020 the new Foreign Investment Act no. 25 of 2019 was gazetted, repealing the Vanuatu Promotion Investment Act Cap [248]. The Act is to establish the...
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Economic review post Cyclone Pam
The category 5 Cyclone Pam hit Vanuatu in March 2015. This was the biggest cyclone since Uma to have such a destructive effect on the nation. Over the years since the...
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Tax Plan
We took the red pen to the government’s tax proposal The Consultation Paper for the Government’s proposed tax plan fails in many ways. We showed it to multiple...
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The same old CR?P
Nik Soni asks if we’re about to repeat the sins of the past Two decades ago Vanuatu was in crisis. The Government, the National Provident Fund and the National Bank...
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This house has three Pillars
Vanuatu’s new strategic plan presents an inclusive vision for development. But is it too inclusive? In October of 2013, a high-level gathering occurred that now seems...
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The Taxman Cometh
Are Vanuatu‘s days as a tax haven numbered? Before sunset we sat in a circle to drink kava. My friend Tim passed around some smol kaekae to wash away the taste....
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A Fairy Tale ending?
Ugly duckling, Goldilocks, Or Alice through the looking glass? How will Vanuatu’s economic story unfold? Like Cinderella casting off her rags before the ball, Vanuatu...
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Room to Grow
At first glance, the new Luganville wharf looks like a vast expanse of nothing. But that’s kind of the point. Roughly 7,000 cubic metres of earth were moved in the...
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