ESCAP, SPREP
The same macro-economic factors which stimulated the depopulation of remote rural towns in New Zealand—or Nebraska—apply to Niue. Niueans, having received an academic education that is more focused on the kinds of work and life found in urban New Zealand than on those found in rural Niue, and having been encouraged to prefer desk work to physical work, are not adequately equipped for identifying, creating, and earning livelihoods in Niue.