Recent economic developments in Western Samoa

Abstract

In the first half of 1996 the Government of Western Samoa took some significant steps in improving its planning and budgetary processes. The release of A New Partnership - Statement of Economic Strategy 1996-1997 (Western Samoa 1996a) marked a shift away from the practice of preparing 5-year national economic development plans to focus on a concise articulation of economic development strategies in the SES for each of the key economic and social sectors, to be reviewed annually as part of the government's annual budgetary process. Show more