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17 July, 2021, 5:00 pm
Victoria Kwakwa, World Bank regional vice president of East Asia and the Pacific (Joel Lee/The Korea Herald)
The World Bank Group as it looks further into the future in terms of Fiji’s longer-term recovery, the tourism sector comes up as one of the major areas of work.
World Bank Group’s East Asia and the Pacific regional vice-president Victoria Kwakwa said the World Bank’s recently launched report, Banking on Protected Areas: Promoting sustainable nature-based tourism to benefit local communities, highlighted that tourism in Fiji’s Mamanuca islands created 8304 jobs (through direct and indirect channels), employing 13 per cent of the local population in Nadroga-Navosa and the Mamanuca.
Business activity in Sigatoka has dropped by 50% to 95% fijivillage.com - get the latest breaking news, showbiz & celebrity photos, sport news & rumours, viral videos and top stories from fijivillage.com Daily Mail and Mail on Sunday newspapers.
Viliame Gavoka
Anil Kumar in his backyard garden. Picture: NAVNESH REDDY
COVID-19 has created a renewed interest in agriculture which in some way a welcomed development.
We wake up each day with dismay to more shocking news and we know it is going to be hard slog ahead.
Job losses and business closures as a direct result of border closures, lockdowns, containment and COVID-safe measures have changed the mindset of many.
Some jobs have lost their lustre and are perceived to be no longer safe even if they do come back. The emerging mindset is that whatever job one secures, farming is a must; to supplement income, provide food security or as the fallback in the event of job losses.
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