{"id":1423,"date":"2025-07-22T00:51:18","date_gmt":"2025-07-22T00:51:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.fnu.ac.fj\/business-hospitality-tourism-studies\/?page_id=1423"},"modified":"2025-07-22T09:47:15","modified_gmt":"2025-07-22T09:47:15","slug":"rusiate-vakaloloma","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.fnu.ac.fj\/business-hospitality-tourism-studies\/about-college\/profile\/economic\/rusiate-vakaloloma\/","title":{"rendered":"Mr. Rusiate Laladidi Vakaloloma"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignleft\" src=\"\/business-hospitality-tourism-studies\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/3\/2025\/07\/Rusiate-Laladidi-Vakaloloma.png\" alt=\"Mr. Rusiate Laladidi Vakaloloma\" width=\"224\" height=\"227\" \/><\/p>\n<p><strong>Position:<\/strong> Director Academic Learning and Teaching<\/p>\n<p><strong>Qualifications:<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul style=\"list-style-type: none; padding-left: 0;\">\n<li>\u2022 Master of Education, Fiji National University<\/li>\n<li>\u2022 M.COM (Economics), University of the South Pacific<\/li>\n<li>\u2022 PGDip (Economics), University of the South Pacific<\/li>\n<li>\u2022 BA (Economics &#038; MPA) University of the South Pacific<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>Area of Expertise: <\/strong>  Economics and Finance<\/p>\n<p><strong>Research Interests:<\/strong><\/p>\n<div style=\"margin-left: 20px;\">\n  1. Development Economics:<\/p>\n<ul style=\"list-style-type: none; padding-left: 0;\">\n<li>\u2022 Policy Impact Analysis, Measuring and Alleviating Poverty and Inequality, Computable General Equilibrium Modelling (CGE) Studies.<\/li>\n<li>\u2022 Input \u2013 Output Analysis Studies, Social Accounting Matrix (SAM) and Financial Social Accounting Matrix (FSAM) Studies, Mathematical Programming \u2013 (Linear Programming and Non-Linear) Studies.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>  2. Agricultural and Resource Economics:<\/p>\n<ul style=\"list-style-type: none; padding-left: 0;\">\n<li>\u2022 Farm-based analysis (Farm management basics: farm plans, crop budgets and gross margin analysis, etc.)<\/li>\n<li>\u2022 Farm household analysis- applied risk analysis<\/li>\n<li>\u2022 Energy Crops and Market Analysis<\/li>\n<li>\u2022 Forest Land protection, Water Pollution Abatement and Farmland Conservation<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>  3. Productivity and Efficiency Analysis<\/p>\n<ul style=\"list-style-type: none; padding-left: 0;\">\n<li>\u2022 Measuring Relative Efficiencies using Nonparametric Approaches (Data Envelopment Analysis and FDH), Total Factor Productivity Studies.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/div>\n<p><strong>Brief Biography:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Mr. Vakaloloma is an accomplished academic with 17 years of experience in tertiary education specializing in Economics and Finance. He has held various leadership roles throughout his academic career, including serving as Head of Campus at Namaka for two years. 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