The Solomon Islands is stagnating despite thirty years of aid flows of hundreds of millions of dollars, innumerable consultants’ reports and development pledges.

This year will mark the fifth anniversary since RAMSI (Regional Assistance Mission to the Solomon Islands) forces landed in the Solomon Islands. Australian Defence Forces efforts have been successful in returning civil stability. But these security gains will not last if the underlying economic stagnation that caused unrest in the Solomon Islands is not addressed.

Sodhi says “the Solomon Islands is better off with the involvement of RAMSI, but it must address the real constraints to development. RAMSI has no exit strategy; its mission is only half complete.”

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