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.
About the program
Background
Dr Parmendra Sharma, Program Convenor, talks about the purpose, significance and future plans of the South Pacific Centre for Central Banking program with Dr Tess Newton Cain, Project Lead of the Griffith Asia Institute’s Pacific Hub.
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.
PhD program
South Pacific Central Banks and Griffith University have established a jointly funded program to allow up to four suitably qualified, Central Bank supported candidates to enrol in the Doctor of Philosophy program at Griffith University each year.
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
