meanwhile governments of countries in the subregion should continue to make progress in tackling corruption within the tax and customs administrations strengthening the rule of law and the protection of migrant workers rights and ensuring fair business competition one group consists of pacific island developing economies and the other the developed countries australia and new zealand all the pacific island economies except marshall islands federated states of micronesia and tonga improved their growth performance in averaging an economic growth rate of following the setback they had experienced during the global financial and economic crisis of