Relatively Speaking: Kinship Matters in Vanuatu

在缺乏国家福利使得必须依赖亲属的地方，太平洋地区的援助国认为，同样的义务阻碍了经济发展和公民廉洁。了解亲属关系、婚姻和性别领域的转变和（或）连续性是否涉及像瓦努阿图这样一个国家的未来发展，澳大利亚向其投入了大量援助，其稳定对该地区至关重要，这表明澳大利亚对这一项目有明确的国家利益。

Where the absence of state welfare makes reliance on kin a necessity, the same obligations are seen by Aid donors in the Pacific as inhibiting economic advancement and civil probity.An understanding of whether or not transformations and/or continuities in the field of kinship,marriage and gender are implicated in the future development of a nation like Vanuatu in which Australia invests considerable aid and the stability of which is consequential in the region, demonstrates a clear national interest in this project.