Wednesday 14 September (Rotorua) In the third match of Pool D, Namibia face their second Pacific island nation in a row. Ranking Samoa proved even harder than ranking Fiji and Tonga – there simply isn’t enough information available to make concrete judgements about inequality in the country. Nevertheless, we’ve given Samoa a very high rankin ...

(Saturday 10 September, Rotorua) The story of Pool D is a sad one – the group is both the poorest and the most unequal in the tournament (even the lone OECD representative in the pool, Wales, is far poorer than the rest of the United Kingdom.) The data that’s available for Fiji and Namibia tells essentially the same story. Information on Fiji i ...