Vanuatu could lose status as 'least developed country'

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Updated April 15, 2009 21:05:31

In these times of global economic crisis, it seems difficult to believe any country could be put in a bind for doing too well. But that's exactly the situation confronting the pacific nation of Vanuatu. Until now, it has existed in relatively comfortable isolation from the rest of the international economic community. But even the region's most remote societies are being drawn into globalisation.

Presenter: Jeff Waters
Speaker: Bakoa Kaltongga, Vanuatu foreign minister; Derek Brien, Pacific Institute of Public Policy, Port Villa

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