01978nas a2200217   4500000000100000000000100001000000100002008004100003653001600044653002600060653000800086653002000094653001000114100001400124245012100138856015300259300001000412490000600422520131200428022002001740       2014                            d10adevelopment10aIntellectual property10aLaw10aPacific islands10aTrade1 aS. Farran00aAid, trade and taboo: The place of indigenous traditional knowledge in development strategies: A Pacific perspective  uhttps://www.scopus.com/inward/record.uri?eid=2-s2.0-85006380494&doi=10.1080%2f21665095.2014.909289&partnerID=40&md5=7ff6787a0dba95c16bfb16446485ce48  a28-410 v13 aPacific island countries (PICs) are examples of some of the least developed nations in the world. To improve their economic performance they are being urged to enter various trade agreements and in general to put in place frameworks to support twenty-first century priorities and international agendas including intellectual property regimes based, primarily, on western models. Yet PICs have long-standing traditional ways of safeguarding ‘intellectual property’. Their traditional perceptions of this tangible and intangible cultural heritage are not always compatible with the models being proposed, both by their own governments and by external agencies with the consequence that initiatives to boost their small island economies may fail to take root among local communities or fail to recognize or protect the various forms of property and resources which are important to them and, in some cases, may have unforeseen adverse consequences. This paper uses examples from PICs to highlight the present failure of national and trans-national intellectual property regimes to adequately acknowledge the different approaches which indigenous people in the region have towards ‘intellectual property’ and consequences that this may have on their development in the current aid for trade environment.  a21665095 (ISSN)