Regional Development Processes

...the rift between country and city is wider than at any time in the last 150 years. The rift is so wide that the return of rural and outback prosperity – if by chance it does return – will not quickly narrow the gap. For country grievances are not simply economic: the grievances are social and cultural. (Blainey, 2001) Recently I was talki ....

The paper attempts to explore short-distance and long-distance migration in Australia. Typically shortdistance moves are regarded as motivated by housing preference while longer-distance migration primarily by employment considerations. Longer-distance migration typically between regions or states as well international migration is widely researc ....

This project was commissioned by the Department of Immigration and Citizenship (DIAC), and has five main components. An analysis of population movement for Australia, at the statistical division level, detailing intrastate, interstate and net migration against a range of demographic, productive and human capital criteria. An analysis of the m ....

Australia is made up of diverse regions, from busy interconnected urban areas to isolated remote communities. While the majority of Australians live in cities, a significant proportion of our population is also spread across large and often remote areas. The regions of Australia are progressing at different rates. Examining the regional trends a ....

Is growth possible in all OECD regions? Evidence suggests that it is. Helping underdeveloped regions to catch up with more developed ones will have a positive impact on a country’s national growth overall, and such growth helps to build a fairer society, in which no region’s citizens are left behind. This publication draws on case studies ....

The Hunter is Australia’s largest regional area, encompassing 11 Local Government Areas and the nation’s seventh largest city, Newcastle. In many ways, the Hunter can be considered as a microcosm of the national economy, with significant exposure to resources, agriculture, energy production, defence and service industry bases, and a large urb ....

Regional development has emerged as a concern in the reassessment of the role of universities in the global knowledge economy.  The capacity and ability of universities to meet this challenge, however, is shaped by the context in which universities work, including the evolving politics of national systems of regulation, intellectual and acad ....

The evaluation focused on ATSIC Regional Council planning, outcome measurement and advocacy with special reference to data availability and requirement. This included: determining what information Regional Councils need to plan effectively assessing the information available to Councils to assist in planning identifying information gaps that ....

The purpose of this research is to compare the quality of life of North Carolina's urban and rural counties based on traditional measurable variables, and to analyze how regional development has enhanced both quality of life and economic development in both urban and rural counties. Labor and employment, educational attainment, health a ....

Regional and rural development policies in Europe increasingly emphasize entrepreneurship to mobilize the endogenous economic potential of rural territories. This study develops a concept to quantify entrepreneurship as place-dependent local potential to examine its impact on the local economic performance of rural territories in Switzerland. The ....

This report has been prepared by EconSearch in response to a successful tender submitted to the Project Steering Group. There were four main components to the study: 1. Development of a South Australian input-output table and a set of regional tables that, in aggregate, are consistent with the state table; 2. quantification of the economic co ....

Following on from the Queensland Growth Management Summit held in March 2010, the Queensland Government is continuing to work with the community to plan for the future. Current projections indicate that Queensland’s population will continue to grow, although at a slower rate than over recent years. The Queensland Government cannot control the r ....

Australians face severe challenges in accessing and understanding the diversity of data that is available to explain where our regions are now and where they could be in the future. This report describes the Regional Australia Institute's (RAI) proposed approach to assessing the competitiveness of Australia's regions. ....

Report outlines achievements of the RDA Barossa and wider Barossa development projects in the 2012-13 period. These include Infrastructure projects such as the Greater Gawler Water Reuse Scheme, Digital Barossa: A strategy for connectivity and the Barossa Aged Care Taskforce.  Report Locationhttp://www.barossa.org.au/assets/Uploads/Publica ....