American Samoa

  1. Pacific Islands Private Sector Organization

The organization acts like a private sector representative body in the Pacific Islands region. Its main aim is to promote and inspire the growth of Pacific businesses. It advocates the private sector needs in order to drive economic growth of the region. It provides relevant information regarding the various programs and services so that the private sector businesses can flourish. It embraces and encourages new ideas and creative thinking in the business sector.

http://www.pipso.org.fj/about-us/who-we-are/

  1. The World bank

The World Bank puts its foot forward in the area of development in the countries it is actively working in. It supplies financial products and provides technical assistance. It also helps the countries in sharing innovative knowledge and solutions to the challenges it faces. Its priority is to help the country in fighting against poverty. It provides access to health care, education, water and sanitation to people who are in need of it and cannot access it.

https://www.worldbank.org/en/what-we-do

  1. Organisation for Economic Cooperation and Development Library

The library contains books, papers and statistics that serve as gateway to OECD’s analysis and data. It is an online library that contains content that are published by International Energy Agency (IEA), the Nuclear Energy Agency (NEA), the OECD Development Center, PISA (Program for International Student Assessment) and the International Transport Forum (ITF).

https://www.oecd-ilibrary.org/about/about

  1. South Pacific Business Development (SPBD)

It is a microfinance network that disburses microloan to around thousands of women entrepreneurs in Samoa. SPBD analyses that it is hard for the women entrepreneurs to receive loans from the bank and hence it provides finances to these entrepreneurs in order to grow their businesses. It has disbursed more than 165,000 very small micro-loans to hardworking, low-income entrepreneurs in South Pacific.

http://www.samoaobserver.ws/en/10_12_2017/local/27670/$240million-help-for-low-income-women.htm