Health implications of PACER-PLUS: Resource page

This page contains links to key papers on the health implications of PACER Plus and to other organisations who are working on these issues.

Key Papers

Nutrition and health in the Pacific:

1. Hughes, R.G. Lawrence, M.A. 2005. ‘Globalisation, food and health in Pacific island countries'. Asia Pacific Journal of Clinical Nutrition. Volume 14, Number 4.;
2. Evans, M et al. ‘Globalisation, Diet and Health: An example from Tonga’, Bulletin of the World Health Organisation. Volume 79, Number 9. 2001. WHO, Geneva, Switzerland;
3. Narsey, W. 2004. ‘PICTA, PACER and EPAs: Where are we going?’, Islands Business Magazine. April 2004. Suva, Fiji Islands.
4. Secretariat of the Pacific Community, 2005. Tobacco and Alcohol in the Pacific Island Countries Trade Agreement: Impacts on Population Health. SPC, Noumea, New Caledonia;
5. Thow, AM & Snowdon, W. 2010. ‘The Effect of Trade and Trade Policy on Diet and Health in the Pacific Islands’, in Blouin, C. Drager, N. Dube, L. Hawkes, C. Henson, S (eds.) Trade, Food, Diet and Health: Perspectives and Policy Options. 2009, Wiley-Blackwell Publishers, London.

Implications of foreign investment in health care and tightened intellectual property rules:

1. 3D and Forum Asia. 2005. ‘Chapter 5: GATS and access to essential services’ Practical guide to the WTO. 3D and Forum Asia, Geneva, Switzerland.
2. Morgan, W. 2008. ‘Trading away our rights? Free trade and human rights in the Pacific Islands’ Just Change (Magazine). Issue 12. 2008.
3. Blake, N. 2009. ‘Free trade agreements and health services’, Australian Nursing Journal. Volume 17, No. 1. July 2009. Australian Nursing Federation, Australia;
4. Joseph, S. 2009. ‘Human Rights and the WTO: Issues for the Pacific’, Victoria University of Wellington Law Review. Victoria University of Wellington, New Zealand;
5. Meads, S. 2008. Trade, Medicines and Human Rights: Protecting Access to Medicine in Fiji and the Pacific. Masters Thesis, Victoria University of Wellington, New Zealand.

Labour mobility and healthcare with emphasis on brain drain AND remittances:

1. Badkar, J. Callister, P. Williams, J. 2009. 'The future supply of caregivers for the elderly: Should Australia and New Zealand look to the Pacific?' Pacific Economic Bulletin. Volume 24, Number 3. October 2009. Australian National University, Canberra.
2. Maclellan, N. Mares, P. 2008. 'Remittances and labour mobility in the Pacific: A Working paper on seasonal work programs in Australia for Pacific Islanders' Swinburne University Institute for Social Research, Melbourne, Australia.
3. Connell, J. 2004. ‘The migration of Skilled Health Workers; from the Pacific to the World’, Asian and Pacific Migration Journal. Volume 13, 2004;
4. Negin, J. 2008. ‘Australia and New Zealand’s contribution to Pacific Island worker brain drain’, Australia and New Zealand Journal of Public Health. Vol. 32. No. 6. 2008.
5. AIDWATCH Pacific Trade factsheet No. 3, July 2009. PACIFIC TRADE: Health Services.

Economic development and health with emphasis on the loss of tariff revenue and impacts of increased domestic taxation AND implications of increasing trade liberalisation:

1. Kelsey, J. 2004. 'A People’s Guide to PACER (The implications for the Pacific Islands of the Pacific Agreement on Closer Economic Relations (PACER)'. Pacific Network on Globalisation.
2. Oxfam Australia and Oxfam New Zealand, 2009. 'PACER Plus and its Alternatives: Which way forward for trade and development in the Pacific?' Oxfam Australia, Sydney, Oxfam New Zealand, Auckland.
3. Pacific Network on Globalisation. 2009. '10 Reasons to Challenge the Pacific Agreement on Closer Economic Relations (PACER-Plus)' Pacific Network on Globalisation, Suva.
4. Morgan, W. Penjueli, M. 2010. ‘Putting development first: Concerns about a Pacific free trade agreement’, Pacific Economic Bulletin. Volume 25. No. 1. Australian National University, Canberra. (forthcoming)

Gender implications of trade agreements:

1. Slatter, C. Underhill-Sen, Y. 2009 ‘Reclaiming Pacific Island regionalism: does neo-liberalism have to reign’ In Gender and Global Politics in the Asia-Pacific, edited by B. D’Costa and K. Lee-Koo. New York: Palgrave McMillan.
2. United Nations Conference on Trade and Development, 2010 Report of the Expert Meeting in Mainstreaming Gender in Trade Policy (accessed 17th March 2010).
3. Canadian International Development Agency, 2003. 'Gender equality and trade-related capacity building: A resource tool for practitioners'
4. Buadromo, V., George, N., Sami, R., & Fiji Women’s Rights Movement, 2009. Gender and Free Trade in the Pacific: Cause for concern? Submission to the Australian Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade;
5. International Women’s Development Agency (IWDA), 2009. Submission on behalf of the International Women’s Development Agency to the Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade on the Pacific Agreement on Closer Economic Relations (PACER) Plus. Submission to the Australian Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade;
6. AIDWATCH Pacific Trade fact sheet No. 4, July 2009. PACIFIC TRADE: Trading Away Women Rights?.