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Samoa

A Pacific nation of 219,000 where citizens abroad send home more than a fifth of the economy, half the power is renewable, and the World Bank financed digital and financial resilience in October 2024.

Perfect Nations values what Samoa owns and raises capital against it, through innovative financing for development (FfD) and super intelligence (SI).

Samoa at a glance

What we do for Samoa

Assets. Capital. Solutions.

Perfect Nations is a new-age sovereign advisory firm, and its clients are nations.

  1. 01AssetsThe cupFive sovereign assets, valued, from The Diaspora to The People.
  2. 02CapitalThe laurels2 instruments and investments on record, every one sourced.
  3. 03SolutionsThe seven starsSeven basic standards of living, star by star. Shelter is furthest from reach today.

The whole logo: a Perfect Nation, where every citizen has all seven basic standards of living, led by good governance.

01Assets · The cup · Sovereign Assets

Five assets no balance sheet counts.

Each is owned today, earns today, and can carry Samoa toward seven basic standards of living for every citizen.

  • 22.4%Of GDP sent home by citizens abroad, 2025

    The Diaspora

    Samoans in New Zealand, Australia and the United States send home more than a fifth of the economy.

  • 57.6%Of the land under forest, 2024

    The Forest

    Forest across more than half the land of Upolu and Savai’i.

  • 19.8%Of export earnings from visitors, 2020

    The Visitors

    Beaches, waterfalls and fa’a Samoa: visitors earned a fifth of exports.

  • 49.1%Of electricity from renewable sources, 2021

    The Clean Grid

    Half the power from water and sun.

  • 219,306Citizens, 2025

    The People

    38.1% are under fifteen: the workforce and the market of the next generation.

02Capital · The laurels · Capital Architecture

The diaspora and the digital economy.

Bonds, guarantees, swaps and loans that raise capital against what Samoa owns, every line sourced.

Capital Architecture

The record in figures

Capital already committed

  • MultilateralApprovedFinance Sector Resilience and Development Project$21M

    World Bank · Approved 18 October 2024

    Banking and remittance channels that hold up in a shock.

    World Bank

    Source
  • MultilateralApprovedDigitally Connected and Resilient Samoa Project$20.1M

    World Bank · Approved 18 October 2024

    Digital connectivity and public services.

    World Bank

    Source

The Samoa Newswire

The Solutions Wire
Leilani Tuilagi, Nation Steward of Samoa

Leilani TuilagiNation Steward of Samoa · SI Researcher

  • The first sourced news for Samoa is in review.

Already working in Samoa.

Independent firms and social enterprises already at work in Samoa, highlighted by Perfect Nations. None is a partner of Perfect Nations.

Suggest an enterprise
  • The first firms and social enterprises at work in Samoa are being gathered.

    Name one already at work there: it may be highlighted here, with its source.

03Solutions · The seven stars · Perfect Capita

Perfect Samoa, star by star.

Perfect Capita is the yearly cost, per person, of lifting everyone above the Living Line in all seven basic living standards, set with Samoa in its own prices.

How Perfect Capita works
Samoa: the seven stars of the logo, one for each basic standard of living, rising from the cup; Food is the larger centre star. Each star carries the figure for Samoa.WATER62.5%SHELTER44.1%ENERGY65%FOOD81.4%EDUCATION96.8HEALTH62LIVELIHOOD50.6%
44.1%
Shelter · furthest from reachSafely managed sanitation; 34.6% of city dwellers live in slumsWHO/UNICEF, 2024

Tap a star for its figure and source.

The price of Perfect Samoa

To be set with Samoa, from its own figures and in its own prices: Perfect Capita times the people of Samoa, each year.

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  • Food81.4%Not food insecure; 18.6% are moderately or severely food insecureFAO, 2023
  • Water62.5%Safely managed drinking waterWHO/UNICEF, 2024
  • Shelter44.1%Safely managed sanitation; 34.6% of city dwellers live in slumsWHO/UNICEF, 2024
  • Energy65%65% cook with clean fuels and technology; 100% have electricityWorld Bank, 2024
  • Education96.896.8% of young people complete lower secondary schoolWorld Bank, 2024
  • Health62WHO service coverage indexWHO, 2023
  • Livelihood50.6%Above US$8.30 a day; 49.4% live below it, datedWorld Bank, 2013

Perfect Nations estimate, to be confirmed with Samoa. Figures marked dated rest on surveys more than five years old; lenient measures are marked as such. The strict measures

Strict measures. Food: share not moderately or severely food insecure (FAO). Water: safely managed drinking water where measured; where it is not, basic water, marked as such. Shelter: the lower of safely managed sanitation and the share outside urban slums. Energy: the lower of electricity per person against 1,000 kWh and clean cooking; where electricity per person is not published, clean cooking. Education: the lower of children reading by the end of primary school and lower-secondary completion. Health: WHO service coverage index. Livelihood: share above the stricter of the national poverty line and the World Bank line for the nation’s income group (US$8.30 a day for high-income nations). Each figure links to its source.

Solutions for Perfect Samoa

  • The Solution for SamoaShelter

    Ring-fence bond money for homes and sanitation.

    • 01The challenge55.9% Of Samoans lack safely managed sanitation. WHO/UNICEF, 2024
    • 02The dealSocial bond, proved in Ecuador, 2020: $400M for affordable homes. Inter-American Development Bank, 2020
    • 03What Perfect Nations advisesNations where shelter is furthest from reach should issue a social bond whose proceeds can be spent only on eligible homes, toilets and sewers. With super intelligence, each unit can be planned, priced and verified, and reported to investors every year, until every family has a safe home.
    Co-design it inThe ReDesign StudioThe three mandates
Perfect Nations® · Letters to the NationsSamoa

Dear Samoa,

Your families abroad send home more than a fifth of your economy, and half your power already comes from water and sun.

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More than half of you lack safely managed sanitation. Let the remittances that keep families strong also build the sanitation that keeps them well.

“Remittances keep families strong. Let them build the sanitation that keeps them well.”

Yours in design,Preeti SinhaPresident and CEO, Perfect Nations

Work with us · The ReDesign Studio

The Perfect Samoa ReDesign Studio

One mission, three depths: the same four moves for Samoa, taken as far toward market as you choose.

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For the Government of Samoa, its development partners and investors. Scope and fees are agreed in writing before any work begins.

  1. 01Identify the assets
  2. 02Estimate Perfect Capita
  3. 03Co-design the capital architecture
  4. 04Launch the instruments
  1. Mandate 013 hours

    The Nation Briefing

    A private session for the people who decide.

    You leave withThe gap, named and sized

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    1. 01The five sovereign assets on this page, walked through.
    2. 02Shelter, the standard furthest from reach, and the Gap, explained.
    3. 03The instruments that could close the Gap, shortlisted.
    4. 04The path to market, outlined.
    Request a Nation Briefing
  2. Mandate 023 days

    The Blueprint Lab

    Your team and ours, working the blueprint together.

    You leave withThe structure, drawn

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    1. 01The ledger tested against your ministries’ own data.
    2. 02Each of the seven standards costed in local prices.
    3. 03One financing structure, drawn with your team.
    4. 04A term sheet and the partners to approach.
    Plan a Blueprint Lab
  3. Mandate 03End to end

    The Sovereign Mandate

    Led personally by the President and CEO.

    You leave withA structure ready for market

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    1. 01A full sovereign asset ledger, valued and verified.
    2. 02Perfect Capita set and agreed with government, with a monitoring plan.
    3. 03The full structure: legal form, credit enhancement, guarantees and pricing.
    4. 04Taken to investors and development partners, through to close.
    Discuss a Sovereign Mandate

Co-design it with us

Where Samoans and Co-designers design the nation they want to live in.

  • Writings

    Write Perfect Samoa into being.

    Up to 1,500 words on your vision of Perfect Samoa, published with your name.

    Submit your writing
  • Voices of Perfect Nations Launching soon

    The local leaders already building Perfect Samoa.

    Great local leaders: honest, dedicated and committed to basic standards of living for all. Every guest answers one question: “What does Samoa already own, and how could it pay for a decent life for every citizen?”

  • Co-designers

    Join the community.

    Everyone who shares a vision, a voice or an enterprise here becomes a Co-designer of Perfect Samoa.

    Become a Co-designer

The Samoa ReDesign Studio is open

Design Perfect Samoa with us.

Share your vision, suggest a guest, or write to us: every message receives a personal reply.

Sources
  1. World Bank, World Development Indicators (API), accessed 10 November 2026: population and ages 0 to 14, 2025; land area and agricultural and forest land; renewable fresh water per person, 2022; natural resource, oil, gas and mineral rents, 2021; renewable electricity output, 2021; tourism receipts; personal remittances; electricity access and clean cooking.
  2. The seven standards: FAO food insecurity, WHO/UNICEF JMP water and sanitation, UN-Habitat urban slums, World Bank clean cooking, learning poverty and lower-secondary completion, and poverty headcounts (all via the World Bank); WHO UHC service coverage index, 2023.
  3. IMF, World Economic Outlook, October 2026 (DataMapper, accessed 10 November 2026): general government gross debt, 2025, and real GDP growth projected for 2026.
  4. World Bank projects P181456 and P180807.
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