What Regional Economic Integration for French Pacific Territories?

Is the regional integration of French Pacific territories (the FPT, which includes French Polynesia, New Caledonia, Wallis and Futuna) desirable?
In 1995, Jean Freyss engaged in an innovative analysis of the New Caledonian economy, pointing out a major paradox: rich in nickel and potentially the most autonomous of the French Overseas Territories, New Caledonia remains largely dependent on financial transfers from the metropolitan France (Assisted Economy and Social Change in New Caledonia, PUF, 1995). But what about today, now that New Caledonia is very much engaged in the process of emancipation envisioned by the Noumea Agreement, signed on 5 May 1998, and now that French Polynesia has also gained autonomy? The book published by the University Presses of New Caledonia presents research in economics conducted in the LARJE laboratory of the University of New Caledonia.

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