Building capacity for research and policy formulation at the South Pacific Central Banks

Founded in 2016, SPCCB 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 ontwo 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.