Pacific Islands Monthly
The news magazine of the South Pacific · since 1930
Pacific Islands Monthly, 1 July 1990Vol. 60, No. 7

(Tuvalu

p. 32 · Read in the full issue

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Funafuti seeks project aid INTERNATIONAL aid agencies are being asked to support a package of 22 development projects worth more than US$57 million, the biggest single item being a planned new airport on Funafuti to replace the existing grass strip. The country also wants to boost the Tuva lu Trust Fund, set up with capital from New- Zealand, Britain and Australia, and which has been invested by Westpac to provide sufficient income to cover Tuva lu’s annual budget deficit. The Govern ment is also seeking finance to upgrade the island nation’s Business Development Advisory Bureau.

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