Fighting Corruption Essential to Reducing Inequality in Pacific Islands

Logging on Kolombangara Island, Solomon Islands. Credit: CE Wilson.
By Catherine WilsonCANBERRA, Australia, Feb 2 2022 (USNewsRank)
Corruption continues to have a crippling effect on the lives of many people in southwest Pacific Island countries, exacerbating hardship and inequality and eroding human and national development.
Islanders speak of the mismanagement of public funds and assets by…