Blanchet Gilles auteur aut IRD text report Litérature grise eng text/pdf reformatted digital access This paper is a shortened and updated version of a previous report on French Polynesia's econonomy (Blanchet 1985), and is a descriptive overview rather than a comprehensive survey. The main objective of the paper has been to bring together data, complemented by extensive explanatory information, to provide material for the assessment of the evolution of French Polynesia's economy up to 1990. In order to complement the earlier report, the paper devotes substantial attention to developments during the 1980s. The most important factors shaping the economy of the territory have been political in nature. The drastic transformation and problematic adjustment to the outside world of what was formely a relatively insignificant, small, colonial-style economy, was brought about by French metropolitan policies on defence (essentially, the decision to set up a nuclear testing site in the territory). This report is chronological in its presentation. It examines the territory's key economic characteristics in each decade from the early 1960s onwards specialized ECONOMIE NATIONALE ACTIVITE SECTORIELLE DONNEES STATISTIQUES DEVELOPPEMENT TOURISME PECHE INDUSTRIELLE POLYNESIE FRANCAISE 094ECONAT 040SOCPEC02 Canberra National Centre for Development Studies 1991 91/4 46 46 46 https://www.documentation.ird.fr/hor/fdi:34269 0-7315-0937-4 [F A34269] https://www.documentation.ird.fr/hor/fdi:34269 https://horizon.documentation.ird.fr/exl-doc/pleins_textes/doc34-06/34269.pdf IRD - Base Horizon / Pleins textes 1991-08-24 2009-12-09 fdi:34269 fre