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‘Recession push’ and ‘prosperity pull’ entrepreneurship in a rural developing context

  • Year: 2013
  • Author: Jürgen Brünjes & Javier Revilla Diez
  • Journal Name: Entrepreneurship & Regional Development: An International Journal
  • Journal Number: 25.3-4
  • Publisher: Taylor & Francis Online
  • Country: Vietnam

In this paper, the ‘recession push’ and the ‘prosperity pull’ hypotheses are used to analyse the effect of growing non-farm wage employment on entrepreneurship in a rural developing context. Data are collected in a rural household survey in 110 communes in central Vietnam which includes subjective owner assessments of reasons for starting ....

‘What works’ ... identifying successful strategies for sustainable economies and jobs growth in the ‘second tier’ of Australian regions

  • Year: 2011
  • Author: Hefferan, Mike
  • Journal Name: SEGRA 2011 ‘Promoting Regional Australia: regions and their cities’
  • Country: Australia
  • State/Region: Queensland, New South Wales, Victoria

Based on established theory: to identify, from five comparable 'second-tier' regions, economic initiatives / policy settings / activities that have been fundamental to regional economic success / sustainability and jobs growth ..... are there common themes? Report Locationhttp://www.segra.com.au/segra11ConfProc/presentations/tuesday/concu ....

[In]Sight: Economic diversification and the competitiveness of regional Australia

  • Year: 2014
  • Author: Regional Australia Institute
  • Country: Australia

[In]Sight is an online index and interactive map tracking the competitiveness of Australia’s 560 Local Government Areas (LGA) and 55 Regional Development Australia (RDA) regions, unlocking thousands of insights into regional Australia.     [In]Sight’s economic diversification indicator (within the Business Sophistic ....

2010 State New Economy Index

  • Year: 2010
  • Author: ITIF (Information Technology and Innovation Foundation)
  • Journal Name: State New Economy Index
  • Publisher: ITIF (Information Technology and Innovation Foundation)
  • Published Location: Washington, United States
  • Country: United States

This report builds on four earlier State New Economy Indexes published in 1999, 2002, 2007, and 2008. The purpose of the State New Economy Index is to measure the economic structure of states. Unlike some reports, which assess state economic performance or state economic policies, this report focuses more narrowly on a&nb ....

2012 Global Food Policy Report

  • Year: 2013
  • Author: International Food Policy Research Institute
  • Publisher: International Food Policy Research Institute
  • Published Location: Washington D.C.
  • ISBN: 978-0-89629-553-7

IFPRI's flagship report examines the major food policy issues, developments, and decisions of 2012. By putting into perspective the year's food policy successes and disappointments, it suggests how to move forward those policies that improve the food situation for the poor. Report Locationhttp://www.ifpri.org/sites/default/files/publications/gf ....

A longitudinal study of the use of the web by regional tourism organisations

  • Year: 2009
  • Author: Lois Burgess, Belinda Parrish, Joan Cooper and Carole Alcock
  • Country: Australia

The information-intensive nature of the tourism and travel industry suggests an important role for Web technology in the promotion and marketing of tourist destinations. The rapid development of the Internet is also having profound impacts on the industry. In fact, travel and tourism has become the single largest category of products sold over th ....

A model for regional technology-based economic development

  • Year: 2009
  • Author: Savoie, Robert (Bobby) A.
  • Journal Name: ProQuest Dissertations and Theses
  • Publisher: University of New Orleans
  • Published Location: United States -- Louisiana
  • ISBN: 9781109200010
  • Country: United States

Technology-based economic development has been a highly sought-after objective for regions in developed and developing countries alike. The wealth created by regional knowledge-based economies like Silicon Valley is an attractive outcome. Without understanding cluster-based economic strategy, the different types of technology-based econ ....

A Multi-Dimensional Perspective on Social Capital and Economic Development: An Exploratory Analysis

  • Year: 2011
  • Author: Soogwan Doh, Connie L. McNeely
  • Journal Name: Annals of Regional Science
  • Journal Number: Vol. 49
  • Publisher: Springer Berlin Heidelberg
  • ISBN: 1432-0592

While various types of capital have been identified and studied as drivers of economic development, recent arguments surrounding social capital in particular have led to calls for greater attention to its role in economic development within a country. Thus, we examine social capital relative to its impact on economic development at the country le ....

A Region Back on the Rails?: Passenger Rail and Regional Development on the NSW Far North Coast

  • Year: 2006
  • Author: Stilwell, Frank; Paillas, Stephen
  • Journal Name: Sustaining Regions
  • Journal Number: Vol. 5, No. 3
  • Country: Australia
  • State/Region: New South Wales

The recent publication of the NSW Government's draft Far North Coast Regional Strategy (NSW Department of Planning 2006) provides a timely and interesting context in which to examine the NSW Far North Coast region. At stake are issues of regional governance and planning, spatial economic growth, environmental sustainability and soc ....

A regional economic performance matrix: an aid to regional economic policy development

  • Year: 2007
  • Author: Howard, Dennis
  • Journal Name: Journal of Economic and Social Policy
  • Journal Number: Vol.11, No.2,
  • Country: Australia

This paper presents a model for regional policy makers as an aid to developing policy for regional economic development. The approach to developing the model follows strategic management principles whereby planning is based on setting objectives in the light of environmental scanning for factors that are relevant to development. The model also ad ....

A regional economy: a case study of Tasmania

  • Year: 2008
  • Author: Karen Wade; Leanne Johnson; Carolyn Brennan; Gary Dolman
  • Journal Name: Research Report
  • Journal Number: 116
  • Publisher: Bureau of Infrastructure, Transport and Regional Economics (BITRE)
  • Published Location: Canberra, ACT
  • ISBN: 9781921260247
  • Country: Australia
  • State/Region: Tasmania

The Department of Infrastructure, Transport, Regional Development and Local Government is committed to the prosperity of Australia's regions. In order to promote economic and social development it is important that we understand the environment in which regional economies operate. This study provides an analytical investigation of the challenges ....

A regional economy: a case study of Tasmania

  • Year: 2008
  • Author: BITRE
  • Country: Australia
  • State/Region: Tasmania

This study provides an analytical investigation of the challenges facing regional Australia. BITRE's study takes a multifaceted and holistic approach. The underlying principle is that economies do not work in isolation and a complex mix of interacting drivers affects a region's economic performance. Tasmania's economic performance has experienced ....

A Review of Regional Development Australia Committee 2010-2011 Regional Plans: Issues Identified by Regions

  • Year: 2013
  • Author: Craig Faulkner, Catherine Robinson and Helen Sparrow
  • Publisher: Australian Bureau of Statistics
  • Country: Australia

This report summarises the findings of a review of selected aspects of the 2010 and 2011 regional plans of the 55 Regional Development Australia committees. The Indian Ocean territories of Christmas Island and Cocos Keeling Island are also included in the summary, because although they are not part of an RDA, they are aligned with RDA Midwest Gas ....

A STUDY OF POPULATION CHANGE VIA CLUSTERING OF AUSTRALIAN REGIONAL AREAS: AN OPTIMISATION APPROACH

  • Author: Karim Mardaneh
  • Journal Name: Australasian Journal of Regional Studies
  • Journal Number: 1.2
  • Country: Australia

Grouping regional towns and cities in Australia according to economic functions could improve understanding of the importance of economic factors in determining growth. Several researchers have used clustering techniques to examine the growth and characteristics of regional cities in Australia. The current study extends clustering methodologies b ....

A sunburnt country: The economic and financial impact of drought on rural and regional families in Australia in an era of climate change

  • Year: 2009
  • Author: Edwards, B, Gray M, Hunter B
  • Journal Name: Australian Journal of Labour Economics
  • Journal Number: Vol.12, No.1
  • Country: Australia

Australia is indeed a sunburnt country, and is arguably becoming increasingly sunburnt. If most climate predictions are correct, much of Australia will experience droughts even more often. This paper uses the Rural and Regional Families Survey to explore the economic and financial implications of drought in regional Australia. Drought has signifi ....

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