Economic Papers - Economic Society of Australia articles from September 2005

Economic Papers - Economic Society of Australia archives from September 2005

Commercial development and natural resource management on the indigenous estate: a profit-related investment proposal.
September 1, 2005... This article assesses the state of commercial development and resource management on Indigenous land in remote Australia. Indigenous landowners control significant assets--over one million square kilometres of land--often with substantial...

Integrated modelling of water policy scenarios in the Great Barrier Reef region.
September 1, 2005... The Reef Water Quality Protection Plan defined a landmark in the political discussion on water use in the Great Barrier Reef (GBR) region. In order to develop a decision support tool that integrates market values and non-market values we...

Land rich and data poor: modelling requirements in Australia's far north.
September 1, 2005... Economic models have long been used as a way of organising and presenting information for policy makers interested in large regions--e.g. nations--and recent advances in information technology make the goal of developing models for decision...

Regional economic growth: an evaluation of the Northern Territory.
September 1, 2005... The Gross Product of the Northern Territory accounts for approximately 1.2% of Australian GDP. The economic growth record of NT in the past few years has been well below all Australian states and territories but the per capita income of NT...

A long-term perspective on industrial disputes in Australia: 1913-2003.
September 1, 2005... The decline in industrial disputes over the last two or three decades in Australia and abroad has been noted by labour market researchers and commentators in general. Most if not all of this recent research and commentary focuses on post-World...

Accounting for discrepancies among estimates of TFP growth in East Asia.(total factor productivity)
September 1, 2005... Five studies of total factor productivity (TFP) growth in eight East Asian countries are surveyed. The discrepancies among the studies are very large: the average absolute discrepancy across studies of estimated TFP growth in each country...