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Loan Rangers - Episode 6

Statecraftiness - Investigating Influence in the Pacific

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The Incomprehensible Financial Instructions of the Solomon Islands

The financial instructions that had been drafted in 1954 under the British rule or British Commonwealth status of Solomon Islands was incomprehensible. The reading comprehension standard required to understand these half dozen paragraphs was PhD holder level, extraordinary, very, very high. In contrast, the average education level of a Solomon Islands government accounting service employee was grade 10. So we had a set of financial instructions, not only very out of date, but let's just say they were written in a language that was not accessible.

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