This report is absurd folks. How can we indicate the standard of an economic growth in terms of boosting mobile phones communication? Come on folks, this report is not going to help the Samoan villagers who are struggling to cope with the changes of the times. The rise in the number of mobile phones owners is an indication of the Samoan people forced by globalisation to be part of the global technological communication system. This is not a bad thing at all. But to use it as an indication of economic growth in Samoa is just not real. The perpetrators of this report should think again, and the Samoans are not to be fooled by these types of optimistic but irrational hypotheses.

Have a nice day folks

The growth of and the continuing profitability of PolyBlue is an important indicator of strong growth in the tourism industry. Tourism is extremely important for the growth of jobs and for self-employment opportunities for small-scale fale-owners in the villages.

The growth in mobile phone usage facilitates economic growth because investors need the necessary infrastructure in place so that there is certainty in any investment opportunities.

The real problem I have is that the report indicates that remittances are rising. In fact, surging. This is not sustainable. The government has done some great work in opening up competition in the economy, but now it must fully concentrate on developing new export industries. Export earnings still lag far behind imports.

Cell phone use is not a great indicator of economic growth it is another measure of how people will be spending money. If spending money on cell phones which profits stay within the country then yes "economic growth" If profits are being sent over seas then it should be avoided as the money doesn't stay in the Samoan economy, thats when Samoa loses and it should be seen for what it is another way to get you to spend money that will never stay in Samoa. What I would like to see is a change in the way energy is supplied and an increase in infrastructure to increase energy generation and jobs to help give the tourism industry a boost in lower costs of energy to increase spending rather than money leaving the shores to pay for diesel.
Money spent on phone calls or money spent on electricity, where will your money go? Will it stay here or go overseas?

This is the type of dumbdown donors like AUSAID thrive on presenting to little island communities like ours as fact. I have said this b4. We need TRADE incentives that will redress a huge in balance in favor of Aus/NZ economies. Our policy makers need to look for avenues to get our agricultural goods to overseas markets. Any overseas markets. Tourism is an excellent idea. But turning Samoa into a cross between a brothel and the Brigham Young type Cultural Centre is not. Our hohum govt. basically sits around waitng for money to come in. They call remittances GDP. They call customary land lease investment markets. They call Australia and New Zealand MASTA. They call RHD sound economic policy. Please someone shoot me.

as usual the poor gets fooled and the riches gets kool...mobile phones, my beautiful paradise, we are not even in the rising of the sun so to shine and here we are more false gods to draw our pure thoughts and to mislead the innocent ways of our Samoa Island. Ausaid, if there are people of Samoa amongst your network please do not brainwash them anymore as we now can see the light, and we also can see our ways and already our Island is going down hill due to the greed of our high profile men (I will not say women), if only the mobile phones will increase the wages in samoa
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Enter a house at the very least you must have something to wipe the feet. And a doormat is more than suited for the occasion.

Your mind is working constantly---- Here is a case of knowing of what thou speakth of...

You have to manufacture or create something of value and enable the sponsors of the money making scheme to retain the value of the manufactured item in the country.

The tryst of these are:

Retain--- Build--- and Re-Create

Take the Tourism Trade. If the opportunity is seized correctly. The value of the industry can exceed all expectation. It has to be retained value-- likely, why does the tourist return. Keep asking yourself, how can we get them back.

It has to be buillt with non-excessive expectation. Imagine the poor tourist in the island with neon signs to show them to the hotel room.(not, no thanks). Build Value into the resort/hotel.

It has to be Re-Created. The experience has to be engaged continously.

Samoa has to create wealth, not give it off to someone to repatriate to foreign slave owners.

Their may be a future Project coming up that may solve that one problem of repats of profits. It may mean sacrafice, but what are you going to do with 200 million middle calls Chinese heading to and fro.

Samoa might as well be the net out in the ocean to capture their fair share, you think?

Calling Beijing, Calling Beijing-- Send them over-- 10-4 over and out.

Sole, the line at the Buffet is so long, OMG. And all the MP's of the nations are happy.


Son of Siliaga