1 uspec department of economics university the south pacific working paper economic importance sugar industry in fiji simulating impact a 30 percent decline productition by paresh kumar narayan griffith business school accounting finance and gold coast campus pmb 50 mc queensland 9726 australia telephone 617 5552 8056 fax 8068 email p edu au biman c prasad suva 679 321 2568 327 0069 chand_b usp ac fj no 2004 12 july 2 series this presents work progress at comments criticisms should be addresses to authors share equal responsibility for copyright reside with additional copies are available from ms josephine singh secretary singh_js or 330 1487 library cataloguing publication data