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ABS Finance Statistics

  • Year: Various
  • Author: Australian Bureau of Statistics
  • Country: Australia
  • State/Region: All
  • Scope: Divided by: State: All
    Region: No
    Industry: No
  • Regularity: Various
  • Nature of Data (Primary/Secondary): Primary

Includes exchange rates, financial accounts, financial institutions and corporations, government finance (at Commonwealth, State and Local levles), housing finance, managed funds, and personal commercial and lease finance This resource provides a wealth of publications on regional issues, including specific reports relating to finance. As a co ....

Accountants as Emotional Wellbeing Counsellors in Rural Areas

  • Year: 2013
  • Author: Carter, Amanda J; Burritt, Roger L; Pisaniello, John D
  • Journal Name: Australian Accounting Review
  • Journal Number: 23.2
  • Publisher: Australian Society of Certified Practising Accountants
  • Published Location: Melbourne, Vic
  • ISBN: 10356908
  • Country: Australia

The role of accountants in dealing with the social, emotional and stress-related problems of their clients is explored using semi-structured interviews with owner-accountants and regional development workers. Findings indicate the importance to rural communities and the related public of accountants acting as 'emotional wellbeing counsellors'; a ....

Analysis of Public-Private Partnerships in Transportation Infrastructure Investment and Managementt

  • Year: 2011
  • Author: Zhang, Zitao Arthur
  • Journal Name: ProQuest Dissertations and Theses
  • Publisher: Northwestern University
  • Published Location: United States -- Illinois
  • ISBN: 9781124862828
  • Country: United States

Public-Private Partnerships (PPPs) in the infrastructure sector are agreements where private parties willingly agree to share responsibility with government agencies for (a subset of the following activities:) investment, finance, design, construction, renovation, maintenance, management, or operation of transportation facilities, e.g., ....

Capability Development among the Ultra-poor in Bangladesh: A Case Study

  • Year: 2009
  • Author: Ahmed, Syed Masud
  • Journal Name: Journal of Health, Population and Nutrition
  • Journal Number: Vol.27, No.4
  • Published Location: Dhaka, Bangladesh
  • Country: Bangladesh

Microcredit is advocated as a development tool that has the potential to reduce poverty, empower participants, and improve health. Results of several studies have shown that the extreme poor, or the ultra-poor, often are unable to benefit from traditional microcredit programmes and can, as a result of taking a loan they cannot repay, sink de ....

Climate adaptation in regional mining value chains: A case-study of the Goldfields-Esperance Region, Western Australia

  • Year: 2013
  • Author: Barton Loechel, Jane Hodgkinson, Suzanne Prober and Kieren Moffat
  • Publisher: CSIRO Earth Science and Resource Engineering
  • Country: Australia
  • State/Region: Goldfields-Esperance Region, Western Australia

Climate change poses a potential range of threats and opportunities for mining regions around Australia. Recent studies have suggested that mine operations as well as the related infrastructure, businesses and communities associated with mining, may be affected by flooding, drought, bushfires, storms and sea level rise. Report LocationClick her ....

Development as social transformation: Assessing the value of social capital in microfinance and its role in the success of the Grameen Bank

  • Year: 2009
  • Author: Choudhary, Asma Sana
  • Journal Name: ProQuest Dissertations and Theses
  • Publisher: Villanova University
  • Published Location: United States -- Pennsylvania
  • ISBN: 9781109095500

Given the growing urgency of combating poverty in the 21st century, this paper discusses the value of promoting microfinance as a development tool, namely the Grameen Bank model, to engender a more inclusive, participatory and most importantly, sustainable approach to international development. This paper contextualizes the role and val ....

Efficient Equity and Credit Financing for the Rural Sector – New directions in rural and agribusiness finance

  • Year: 2001
  • Author: T. M. Dwyer et al
  • Publisher: Rural Industries Research and Development Corporation
  • Published Location: Barton, ACT
  • ISBN: 0642583390
  • Country: Australia

This Conference, and the research and planning which was necessary for its success, has brought together financial sector and rural and agribusiness sector expertise to take a new look at the issue equity and credit financing for the rural sector. Rural finance has had a long and sometimes turbulent history in Australia. This Conference was not i ....

Giving credit where it's due: the delivery of banking and financial services to Indigenous Australians in rural and remote areas

  • Year: 2001
  • Author: McDonnell, S; Westbury, N
  • Publisher: Centre for Aboriginal Economic Policy Research, Australian National University
  • Published Location: Canberra, ACT
  • ISBN: 0731526538
  • Country: Australia

Australia's financial system is undergoing a period of substantial structural change. While these changes may have had positive impacts on most consumers, they have had a number of negative impacts, particularly for low income consumers of financial services and for people located in rural and remote communities. This discussion pa ....

Harnessing Private Funds to Alleviate the Australian Local Government Infrastructure Backlog

  • Year: 2012
  • Author: Brian Dollery, Michael A. Kortt, Bligh Grant
  • Journal Name: Economic Papers: A journal of applied economics and policy
  • Journal Number: 33.1
  • Publisher: Wiley Online
  • Country: Australia

A series of national and state public inquiries into the financial sustainability of local government have demonstrated that all Australian local government jurisdictions face a daunting local infrastructure maintenance and renewal backlog. Various solutions to the problem have been advanced in the literature, including the establishment of an Au ....

How to foster investments in long-term assets such as infrastructure

  • Year: 2011
  • Author: Déau, Thierry
  • Journal Name: OECD Journal: Financial Market Trends
  • Journal Number: Vol. 2011 - Issue 1
  • Publisher: Organisation for Economic Cooperation and Development
  • Published Location: Paris, France
  • ISBN: 1995-2872

Mobilising private sector funding is essential in bridging the infrastructure funding gap. This can be done by appropriate regulation, targeted public financial support, and active involvement by institutional investors. Creating an appropriate policy framework and lifting regulatory constraints on long-term investments will foster financial stab ....

Issues and options for farm financing in Australia

  • Year: 2013
  • Author: R Kingwell
  • Journal Name: Farm Policy Journal
  • Journal Number: Vol. 10 No. 3
  • Publisher: Australian Farm Institute
  • Published Location: Surry Hills
  • ISBN: 1449-8812
  • Country: Australia

Agricultural investments in Australia are innately risky, as evidenced by the variability in climate, commodity prices and the exchange rate over the last decade. These risks, when combined with the banking reforms that followed the global financial crisis, have caused many banks to be more conservative in their lending policies. For farmers, esp ....

Land of discontent: the dynamics of change in rural and regional Australia

  • Year: 2000
  • Editors: Pritchard, B; McManus, P
  • Publisher: University of New South Wales Press
  • Published Location: Kensington, NSW
  • ISBN: 0868405787
  • Country: Australia

This book explores the dynamics of change in contemporary rural and regional Australia. Each of the book's ten thematic chapters highlights and critiques a particular debate associated with recent discourse on the futures of rural and regional Australia. Chapters include an Introduction by Phil McManus and Bill Pritchard; The myths of modern agri ....

Micro Credit Finance and the Growth of Agriculture in Ogun State Nigeria

  • Year: 2009
  • Author: Owojori, A A; Oyewole, O I
  • Journal Name: Continental Journal of Social Sciences
  • Journal Number: 2
  • Publisher: Wilolud Journals
  • Published Location: Akure, Nigeria
  • Country: Nigeria

This paper highlighted the contribution of micro credit finance to the growth of agricultural production in Nigeria and critically evaluated the need for financial institution in the Nigeria's agricultural productivity. The expected role of the financial institutions in solving the problems of rural and near rural economy; such as pover ....

Money talks: overcoming the financial exclusion problems faced by Indigenous Australians

  • Year: 2003
  • Author: McDonnell, Siobhan
  • Journal Name: Australian Social Policy Conference
  • Publisher: Social Policy Research Centre, University of New South Wales
  • Published Location: Sydney, NSW
  • Country: Australia

A lack of access to banking and financial services, otherwise termed financial exclusion, is one of the key aspects of the social exclusion of low income groups in Australian society. Individuals without access to banking services are at an economic disadvantage. Without the ability to save, individuals are denied a range of econom ....

Natural Resource Revenue Sharing Schemes (Trust Funds) in International Law

  • Year: 2005
  • Author: Bantekas, Ilias
  • Journal Name: Netherlands International Law Review
  • Journal Number: Vol.52, No.1
  • Publisher: Cambridge University Press
  • Published Location: Cambridge, United Kingdom
  • Country: Chad

Natural resources trust funds have been employed in the developed world since the 1970s in order to achieve a fair allocation of revenues and promote social growth. This model has been applied recently in developing economies, however lacking transparency and democratic oversight. As a result of increased public spending and depletion o ....

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