Pacific aid increasingly driven by debt
Australia dominates overseas aid to the Pacific islands but it is coming increasingly in the form of loans, while China – once the region’s largest lender – still holds around 40% of infrastructure contracts
PACIFIC ISLAND AID RECIPIENTS
Grants
Loans
$billions
Palau
$86m
Micronesia
$201m
Papua New Guinea
$1.4bn
Marshall Islands
$148m
Regional initiatives
$645m
Kiribati
$111m
Solomon Islands
$321m
Tuvalu
$113m
Nauru $47m
Fiji
$443m
Samoa
$128m
Vanuatu
$215m
Tonga
$179m
Niue
$29m
Cook Islands
$71,000
Australia
New Zealand
800km
500 miles
PARTNERS
Grants
Loans
Australia
ADB*
New Zealand
World Bank
U.S
China
Japan
EU
Others
$1.5bn
$445m
$443m
$429m
$335m
$460m
$255m
$121m
$105m
Loans
$1.3bn
Total
$4.1bn
Grants
$2.8bn
*Asian Development Bank
Source: Lowy Institute
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