Role Of Government In Fiji

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Role of Government in Fiji
The government in Fiji’s economy plays a vital role in contemporary economic and political debate with effects on Fijian economy growth rate. A government is important to a society as it makes implements and enforces laws to protect its people and their rights. This essay debates the role of government in Fiji by discussing five reasons as to why the government needs to play a dominant role in Fiji and five reasons why government should not play a dominant role in Fiji with relevant examples.
Fiji has embarked constitutional courses towards a brighter future and long-term benefits for all Fijians that protects a wide range of civil, political and socio-economic rights. Five reasons why the government needs to play …show more content…

When the business sectors neglect to give the required products or the right measures of specific merchandise or administrations, the administration fills in the vacuum. Cases of public goods products that the business sectors don't give are guard, security, police protection and the legal framework. Training and wellbeing administrations are cases of semi open (justify) merchandise that the market does not give enough of. The legislature ought to give to start with, and help in the arrangement of the second thus involving the fifth role of government which is promoting growth and stability. The government brings out changes in its financial and fiscal strategies in order to promote and advance macroeconomic development and steadiness such as expanding the GDP, battling inflation and joblessness. The financial approaches imply the utilization of taxes and spending and it is overseen by the official branch embodied by the Treasury Department. The fiscal strategies imply the utilization of loan fees, cash supply, save prerequisites, and so on and it is overseen by the Reserve Bank of Fiji. Also the revitalization of the sugar industry together with sustainable mahogany industry creation and efficient ports and has also embarked infrastructural program which tends to solve employment as one of the many …show more content…

There are reasons as to why the government should not play a dominant role in Fiji. Political instability has added to economic uncertainties and economic growth and freedom constrained by weak policies and lingering structures. Fiji’ debt level is becoming publics nightmare and a cause of undermining of human rights in so many ways being reasons why the government should not play a dominate role such as the imposition of a constitution and other institutional changes without people's consent, the curbing of media freedom, nepotism, the lack of accountability and transparency in the use of taxpayers' funds, the undermining of the indigenous Fijian language, to name just a few. (The Fiji Times Online, December 2016). According to Professor Wadan Narsey “Yet unwise increases in public debt, originating in hasty, unwise and excessive government investments or investment blunders or guarantees of bankrupt inefficient public enterprises badly managed by government-appointed boards will silently but surely erode the welfare of future generations just as cancers silently destroy the fabric of a human body over time” (The Fiji Times Online, December 2016). The current debt is F$4.5 billion, though manageable it still endangers Fiji economy which puts a red tag on government’s future revenue and expenditure thus

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