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Regional Development Processes

Fly-in/Fly-out and Fly-over: Mining and regional development in Western Australia

  • Year: 2001
  • Author: KEITH STOREY
  • Journal Name: Australian Geographer
  • Journal Number: 32.2
  • Publisher: Carfax Publishing
  • Country: Australia
  • State/Region: Western Australia

Adoption of fly-in/fly-out (FIFO) or commute work systems in the Western Australian mining industry has increased rapidly over the last decade, with metropolitan Perth becoming the main source of labour and the base for major mining supply and service companies in the state. This situation has led to increasing concern on the part of many regiona ....

Regional subsidies and industrial prospects of lagging regions

  • Year: 2006
  • Author: Carvalho, Alexandre, Lall, Somik V., Timmins, Christopher
  • Publisher: The World Bank
  • Country: Brazil

Large and sustained differences in economic performance across regions of developing countries have long provided motivation for fiscal incentives designed to encourage firm entry in lagging areas. Empirical evidence in support of these policies, however, has been weak at best. This paper undertakes a direct evaluation of the most prominent fisca ....

'Heritage and Regional Development: An Indigenous Perspective'

  • Year: 2007
  • Author: Collins, Robbie; McMahon-Coleman, Kimberley
  • Journal Name: Sustaining Regions
  • Journal Number: Vol. 6, No. 1
  • Country: Australia

Heritage is important to regional development in terms of promoting a sense of place and a sense of identity for those in the region. Heritage is often expressed through culture and the arts as a means of manifesting a community's sense of what the community or region is about. For Indigenous communities this is particularly releva ....

‘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 Results Guide

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

Australia’s regional areas are developing at different paces. They have different potential for  positive growth and change.    The Regional Australia Institute(RAI) has developed [In]Sight: Australia’s regional competitiveness  index to provide a consistent, comprehensive and accessible view of the status of Australia ....

[In]Sight: Australia’s Regional Competitiveness Index 2013 Technical Report

  • Year: 2013
  • Author: Regional Australia Institute
  • Country: Australia

In establishing the Regional Australia Institute (RAI), stakeholders from the regions, government and academia emphasised the extent to which regional Australia has lacked consistent and accessible national level information to inform the discussion on regional development and to guide policy and investment decisions. To address th ....

A digital futures plan for the Moreton Bay Region

  • Year: 2013
  • Author: Explor Consulting Pty Ltd
  • Publisher: RDA Moreton Bay Inc, Moreton Bay Regional Council, Queensland Government
  • Country: Australia
  • State/Region: Queensland

The Moreton Bay Region in South East Queensland (SEQ) comprises diverse communities, landscapes and businesses. Since 2008, the Moreton Bay Regional Council (MBRC) has been the single local government authority for the region and is the third largest local government by population in Australia. Regional Development Australia Moreton Bay Incorpora ....

A future for Indigenous youth?

  • Year: 2004
  • Author: Beadman, Bob
  • Journal Name: Policy: a Review of Public Policy and Ideas
  • Journal Number: Vol.20, No.3
  • Country: Australia

The future of Indigenous communities depends on the introduction of a new framework of government assistance that focuses on mutual obligation requirements, rewarding of initiative not idleness, and policing of school attendance. The author explains how a set of mutual obligation principles for the bush would work, and how the Land ....

A future for regional Australia: Escaping global misfortune

  • Year: 2001
  • Author: Gray, Ian; Lawrence, Geoffrey
  • Publisher: Cambridge University Press
  • Published Location: Cambridge, United Kingdom
  • ISBN: 0521002273
  • Country: Australia

This ten-chapter book was the first of its type in Australia, bringing a critical sociological perspective to the analysis of contemorary regional change. Synthesising results from over 15 years of research by the authors, the book sought to explain regional disadvantage. In then provided ideas for a platform for regional revitalisation, based up ....

A Matter Of Choice: CAPTURING THE FIFO OPPORTUNITY IN PILBARA COMMUNITIES

  • Year: 2012
  • Author: The Chamber of Minerals and Energy of WA
  • Country: Australia
  • State/Region: Western Australia

FIFO employment is much talked about, but is not well understood. In remote areas of Australia today, and Western Australia particularly, it provides a significant and growing proportion of the workforce needed by the resources sector, and is anticipated to double within the next 3-5 years. Report LocationClick here to view the full publication ....

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 NEW DAWN? REGIONS AND REGIONALISM IN AUSTRALIA

  • Year: 2011
  • Author: Beer, Andrew
  • Journal Name: Regions Magazine
  • Journal Number: Vol.283, No.1
  • Country: Australia

Report Locationhttp://rsa.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/13673882.2011.9690385?journalCode=resn20 ....

A new direction for regional university campuses: catalyzing innovation in place

  • Year: 2008
  • Author: Allison, Janelle; Eversole, Robyn
  • Journal Name: Innovation: The European Journal of Social Science Research
  • Journal Number: Vol. 21, No. 2
  • Country: Australia

Ideas about the importance of knowledge and innovation in the global economy have implications for the changing role of universities but so too do ideas about the role ofplace-based knowledge in generating competitive advantage and innovation at the regionalscale. As the concern to structure effective innovation systems intersects with thegrowing ....

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