‘The Challenge for Pacific Leaders: Economic Growth and Reform” Speech by Rt Hon Mekere Morauta Kt MP Emerging Pacific Leaders Dialogue, Brisbane, 28 June 2006 Introduction: Pacific Islands Today Mention of Pacific Islands once conjured up images of idyllic islands whose inhabitants valued leisure higher than any other activity, and had a lifestyle that was largely self-sufficient and affluent in the traditional sense. Today the image is different – one of island states whose viability is threatened, not just by the volcanic rumblings of the “Ring of Fire” but, for some, from the effects of global warming and, for all, from the forces unleashed by globalisation and, more seriously, from th