The COVID-19 outbreak has caused a global health emergency, and a global economic slowdown impacting millions of small and medium sized enterprises (SMEs) around the world and in the Pacific. Travel bans and restrictions on gatherings have particularly impacted businesses in the Pacific with tourism playing a major role in local economies.

Pacific Trade Invest (PTI) has commissioned Fifth Quadrant, an independent research agency to run a fortnightly survey to understand the ongoing effects wave of the ‘PTI’s Pacific Business Monitor’ includes of COVID-19 on the Pacific’s private sector.