it is important to note that extreme poverty is rare in most pacific island developing economies pide there are a further million poor living in the pacific half of which is accounted for by the poor in fiji great variability exists in the incidence of basic needs poverty among pide the lowest basic needs poverty rate was recorded in vanuatu per cent in followed by kiribati per cent in and the highest rates were in the federated states of micronesia per cent in and fiji per cent in