However, prolonged low oil prices could also endanger the Petrocaribe arrangement by which many Caribbean states receive oil at preferential rates from Venezuela (O’Brien et al. However, a stronger US dollar resulting from the divergence of US monetary policy from the global norm could encourage greater tourist numbers and investment as buying power increases. This has largely been driven by strong growth in Papua New Guinea (8.5%) and Fiji Islands (6.9%), as well as a return to growth for Tonga (2.1%, up from -2.7% in 2013) and Samoa (1.2%, up from -1.9% in 2013) (World Bank 2016a). Papua New Guinea’s growth has been supported by a new liquefied petroleum gas (LPG) facility commencing production and Fiji’s growth has been broadly based across a number of sectors, including construction, manufacturing, and financial and insurance services, as well as increased tourism numbers (Batten et al.