Building capacity for research and policy formulation at the South Pacific Central Banks
The South Pacific Centre for Central Banking (SPCCB) was founded in 2016 following the inaugural Central Banking Symposium hosted by Griffith University, where discussions were held to elevate the region's study group into a research centre for central banking. The SPCCB was formed to bring together world class economic and finance experts, with a clear aim to help build capacity for research and policy formulation and is committed to developing capacity for research and policy formulation at the South Pacific Central Banks.
Vision
Entrenching rigour and evidence in economic policy making at the South Pacific central banks through research, training and policy outreach
Mission
Strengthening local capacity for conducting independent, rigorous inquiry into the problems facing the management of economies in the South Pacific, founded on two basic premises:
- that development is more likely to occur where there is sustained sound management of the economy
- that such management is more likely to happen where there is an active, well-informed group of locally based professional economists to conduct policy-relevant research
Objectives
- to build a credible local capacity for policy-oriented research
- to generate research results for use by policy analysts and policy makers
- to promote links between research and policy
- to encourage retention of high quality researchers.
SPCCB is committed to disseminating its remarkable research through a wide range of insightful publications.
Key Partners
Griffith currently has developing capacity MoUs with the central banks of Fiji, Papua New Guinea, Solomon Islands, Vanuatu.and Timor-Leste.
You may follow the links below to the respective central bank's web sites.
Funders
Key stakeholders
Our researchers
Bank of Papua New Guinea
Central Bank of Solomon Islands
Market Development Facility
Reserve Bank of Fiji
- Lavenia Cocker
- Vilimaina Dakai
- Disusu Delana
- Savaira Manoa
- Krishal Prasad
- Kalolaini Ranadi
- Akata Taito
- Seci Taleniwesi
- Matia Tuisawau
- Poasa Werekoro
Reserve Bank of Vanuatu
- Alison Baniuri
- Arold Bill
Fiji Bureau of Statistics
- Mitieli Cama
De Montfort University
- Md Shamsul Alam
Griffith University
- Dr Katherine Hunt
- Nirodha Jayawardena
- Jak Khakharov
- Son Nghiem
- Lan Thanh Nguyen
- Eduardo Roca
- Parmendra Sharma
- Tarlok Singh
- Jen-Je Su
- Tracey West
- Victor Wong
- Tinxi (Riven) Zhang
University of the South Pacific
- Carl Miller