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Ethiopia - Regionalization study

  • Year: 2000
  • Author: World Bank
  • Publisher: World Bank
  • Country: United States
  • State/Region: Washington DC

The study outlines the development strategy Ethiopia will need to pursue to achieve a balanced regional progress, and indicates some policy areas for attention, as the strategy develops. It examines the recent constitutional structure, government spending, and fiscal imbalances, including the capacity constraints the country faces, and governance ....

'Emerging themes' : National Inquiry into Rural and Remote Education

  • Year: 2000
  • Author: National Inquiry into Rural and Remote Education (Australia)
  • Publisher: Human Rights and Equal Opportunity Commission
  • Published Location: Sydney, NSW
  • Country: Australia

Includes a chapter on access to and participation in rural and remote education by Indigenous Australians; discusses barriers to participation and success; outcomes; Indigenous cultural studies; Indigenous languages. Report Locationhttp://www.humanrights.gov.au/human_rights/rural_education/briefing/indigenous_ed.html ....

A Qualitative and Quantitative Analysis of the Relationship between Community Cohesiveness and Rural Crime

  • Year: 2000
  • Author: Barclay, E.M., Jobes, P. Donnermeyer, J.F., Weinand, H.
  • Publisher: The Institute for Rural Futures - University of New England
  • ISBN: 1863897100
  • Country: Australia
  • State/Region: New South Wales

Crime in rural Australia has been a little studied phenomenon. A two-part comprehensive analysis of crime in rural Australia, sought to address the neglect of research into this important issue. In part one, quantitative analyses of census data and crime rates across 122 rural Local Government Areas (LGAs) in New South Wales, highlighted the extr ....

Alcohol consumption in amateur Australian Rules football clubs: evidence from a rural region

  • Year: 2000
  • Author: Snow, P; Munro, G
  • Journal Name: Health Promotion Journal of Australia: Official Journal of Australian Association of Health Promotion Professionals
  • Journal Number: Vol. 10, No. 3
  • Country: Australia
  • State/Region: Victoria

Issue addressed: The extent to which amateur rural sporting clubs are settings in which harmful and hazardous levels of alcohol are consumed by players, supporters and officials. Methods: A survey of respondents in 13 rural sporting clubs across four amateur Australian rules football leagues in the Gippsland region, east of Melbour ....

An analysis of the criteria used by Australian local government amalgamation inquiries between 1960 and 1992

  • Year: 2000
  • Author: Soul, Stephen; Dollery, Brian
  • Journal Name: Regional Policy and Practice
  • Journal Number: Vol.9, No.2
  • Country: Australia

Between 1960 and 1992 Australian state governments held numerous formal Inquiries into the question of appropriate local government boundaries. The deliberations and subsequent reports produced by these Inquiries provides an instructive and informative historical background to contemporary debates surrounding the controversial issue of local ....

Australian urban planning: new challenges, new agendas

  • Year: 2000
  • Author: Gleeson, Brendan; Low, Nicholas
  • Publisher: Allen &​ Unwin
  • Published Location: St Leonards, NSW
  • ISBN: 1865082384
  • Country: Australia

How should Australia's cities be managed in the new millennium? How can planning respond to the new political challenges which confront every level of government? Does planning complement or inhibit environmental sustainability? Australian Urban Planning addresses these questions by describing and analysing the various theoretical, political and ....

Barriers to the take-up of new technology

  • Year: 2000
  • Author: Lloyd, R; Hellwig, O
  • Publisher: National Centre for Social and Economic Modelling, University of Canberra
  • Published Location: Canberra, ACT
  • ISBN: 0858898411
  • Country: Australia

Access to and use of the Internet and other telecommunications services are rapidly becoming an increasingly common and critical part of commerce, education and social participation. Groups with little opportunity to participate in the services provided by new telecommunications technology will be increasingly disadvantaged sociall ....

Cardiovascular disease in regional Queensland: a case study identifying the implications for changing the primary health care educational paradigm

  • Year: 2000
  • Author: Moxham, Lorna and others
  • Journal Name: Australian Journal of Primary Health Interchange
  • Journal Number: Vol.6, No.1
  • Country: Australia
  • State/Region: Queensland

Australia is perceived by many as the 'lucky' country and the image that has been portrayed to the rest of the world is one that projects a nation of tanned, active, healthy, and sports-loving individuals. This image is outdated and instead Australia is a nation with a national health problem. The health problem is having an impact which is incre ....

CDEP [Community Development Employment Projects] as a stepping stone to employment: the Port Augusta case

  • Year: 2000
  • Author: Gray, Matthew; Thacker, Elaine
  • Journal Name: Australian Journal of Labour Economics
  • Journal Number: Vol.4, No.2
  • Country: Australia
  • State/Region: South Australia

Indigenous Australians in the Community Development Employment Projects (CDEP) scheme have been working for welfare payments since 1977. One of the objectives of the scheme is to assist Indigenous Australians develop work skills which lead to 'mainstream' employment. This paper uses a case study of a CDEP scheme in Port Augusta, a regional centre ....

Choice modelling and its potential application to tropical rainforest preservation

  • Year: 2000
  • Author: Rolfe, John; Bennett, Jeff; Louviere, Jordan
  • Journal Name: Ecological Economics
  • Journal Number: Vol.35, No.2
  • Country: Australia, Vanuatu

Loss of rainforest occurs in part because of a global market failure problem. Markets routinely transmit signals about international demands for forest products such as timber, but fail to transmit signals about demands for preservation. To make efficient resource allocation choices, decision makers need some framework to estimate the non-use val ....

Coastal Management and the Environmental Compensation Challenge

  • Year: 2000
  • Author: Turner, Stephanie
  • Journal Name: New Zealand Journal of Environmental Law
  • Journal Number: 4
  • Country: New Zealand

Coastal ecosystems around New Zealand are under increasing pressure as a result of the growing use of coastal areas and resources. Recognition of the environmental costs of coastal use and development has led resource managers, scientists and communities to increasingly consider the possibility of compensating for adverse impacts w ....

Comparative perspectives on regional development policy in Australia and Ireland

  • Year: 2000
  • Author: Duff, John; Tonts, Matthew
  • Journal Name: Rural Society
  • Journal Number: Vol.10, No.3
  • Country: Australia, Ireland

Australia and Ireland are two countries in which the economic importance of agriculture has been steadily declining. There are few similarities in the form of agriculture in the two countries, with greater diversity of produce and larger scale evident in Australia. Despite these differences, there are similarities in the social and economic probl ....

Constructive compassion

  • Year: 2000
  • Author: Abbott, T
  • Publisher: H.R. Nicholls Society Conference
  • Country: Australia

A profile of rural Australia is provided in this paper which makes comparisons between urban and rural living in terms of average incomes, access to services and unemployment problems. The federal government's Job Network and Work for the Dole policies are discussed along with the Regional Assistance Program, arguing that they have ....

Disaggregated Models of Unemployment in Australia

  • Year: 2000
  • Author: Borland, J
  • Publisher: Melbourne Institute of Applied Economic and Social Research, The University of Melbourne
  • Published Location: Parkville, Vic
  • ISBN: 0734014988
  • Country: Australia

This paper reviews evidence on causes of unemployment in Australia from disaggregated modelling of the labour market. Three main types of modelling are considered. First, information on unemployment rates of labour force participants with different skills is resented, and analyses that seek to explain why unemployment varies between skill groups ....

Diversity: the fibre of a vibrant rural town in Western Australia: Nannup

  • Year: 2000
  • Author: Sherwood, Patricia; Holroyd, Carl
  • Journal Name: Social Alternatives
  • Journal Number: Vol.19, No.4
  • Country: Australia
  • State/Region: Western Australia

The article focuses on an ethnographic study on the rural town of Nannup in Western Australia. The three broad phases of interaction and development of the rural town were discussed such as the confrontation of differences during 1970s, mutual beneficial encounters in the 1980s and synergistic encounters in the 1990s. The alternative lifestylers ....

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