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The rural investment climate : analysis and findings

  • Year: 2008
  • Author: World Bank
  • Publisher: World Bank
  • Country: United States
  • State/Region: Washington DC

Interest in investment climates has emerged relatively recently. In the 1960s and 1970s, governments in many countries believed they should play a direct role in rural credit, input supply, production, trade, transport, distribution, and even marketing. However, in the 1980s and 1990s, government-dominated systems fell into disgrace because of po ....

'Green-collar' jobs : employment impacts of climate change policies

  • Year: 2008
  • Author: PEARCE, Alicia; Stilwell, Frank
  • Journal Name: Journal of Australian Political Economy
  • Journal Number: 62
  • Country: Australia

Consequences of the implementation of climate change policies on employment - creation of jobs, types and location of jobs - developments culminating in the commitment to environmental economic policy change - threats and opportunities in the labour market - employment implications of energy technologies - regional impacts - transi ....

'Her beauty and her terror - the wide brown land for me!' The individual and family wellbeing of Australian rural and regional families in drought

  • Year: 2008
  • Author: Edwards, Ben; Gray, Matthew
  • Journal Name: AIFS seminar series
  • Publisher: Australian Institute of Family Studies
  • Country: Australia

The most recent drought has been one of the most severe on record with large parts of southern and eastern Australia experiencing dry conditions since 1996. Moreover, 'For the agriculturally important Murray- Darling Basin, however, October 2007 marks the sixth anniversary of lower than average rainfall totals, with the November 20 ....

“Beyond workforce”: a systemic solution for health service provision in small rural and remote communities

  • Year: 2008
  • Author: John S Humphreys, John Wakerman, Robert Wells, Pim Kuipers, Judith A Jones and Phil Entwistle
  • Journal Name: The Medical Journal of Australia
  • Journal Number: 188.8
  • Publisher: Australasian Medical Publishing Company
  • ISBN: 1326-5377
  • Country: Australia

• Successful, “innovative” primary health care (PHC) models exist that have adapted to the specific circumstances of their rural and remote context. • A typology of discrete, integrated, comprehensive and outreach rural and remote services exists rather than a “one coat fits all” PHC health service model. • Successful models are cha ....

A community built on the pond: Social cohesion, sport tourism and the World Pond Hockey Championships

  • Year: 2008
  • Author: Awde, Cory
  • Journal Name: ProQuest Dissertations and Theses
  • Publisher: University of Ottawa (Canada)
  • Published Location: Canada
  • ISBN: 9780494464649
  • Country: Canada
  • State/Region: New Brunswick

Neoliberalism and globalization have contributed to an environment of economic uncertainty in rural Canada, raising concern for the social well-being of its residents. Despite immense challenges, many rural communities possess positive elements of social cohesion that can be used by the community in the pursuit of their communal objecti ....

A hedonic analysis of state and local fiscal policy on nonmetropolitan economic

  • Year: 2008
  • Author: Yu, Yihua
  • Journal Name: ProQuest Dissertations and Theses
  • Publisher: Oklahoma State University
  • Published Location: United States -- Oklahoma
  • ISBN: 9780549975427
  • Country: United States

Scope and Method of Study . Following the quality-of-life hedonic pricing approach of Rosen (1979) and Roback (1982) as extended to fiscal conditions by Gyourko and Tracy (1989; 1991), this paper examines how state and local government taxes and expenditures affect the location decisions of households and firms in U.S. nonmetropolitan a ....

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 ....

A regional analysis of Indigenous participation in the Western Australian labour market

  • Year: 2008
  • Author: N. Biddle; J. Taylor
  • Publisher: Centre for Aboriginal Economic Policy Research, Australian National University
  • Published Location: Canberra, ACT
  • ISBN: 0731549449
  • Country: Australia
  • State/Region: Western Australia

Western Australia sits poised to reap huge benefits from a super-cycle of resource exploitation; labour demand is at an all-time high and challenges in securing an adequate labour supply are already evident; it is ironic then, that the very people whose land base is exploited to generate much of this wealth, who are often located i ....

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 ....

About Australia's Regions 2008

  • Year: 2008
  • Author: Bureau of Infrastructure, Transport and Regional Economics
  • ISBN: 978-1-921260-26-1
  • Country: Australia
  • State/Region: All

This booklet provides an accessible introduction to social, economic and environmental statistics for Australia’s regions. Information is presented under the following broad themes: population; society; regional economies; housing; transport and communications; education and health; and environmental issues Report Locationhttp://www.bitre.gov ....

About Australia's Regions June 2008

  • Year: 2008
  • Author: Department of Infrastructure, Transport, Regional Development and Local Government
  • Country: Australia
  • State/Region: All Regions

This booklet provides an accessible introduction to social, economic and environmental statistics for Australia's regions. Information is presented under the following broad themes: population; society; regional economies; housing; transport and communications; education and health; and environmental issues. Report Locationhttp://www.bitre.gov. ....

Achieving to some outranking relationships between post mining land uses through mined land suitability analysis

  • Year: 2008
  • Author: Soltanmohammadi, H; Osanloo, M; Rezaei, B; Bazzazi, A Aghajani
  • Journal Name: International Journal of Environmental Science and Technology : (IJEST)
  • Journal Number: Vol.5, No.4
  • Publisher: International Journal of Environmental Science and Technology
  • Published Location: Tehran, Iran

Adoption of most suitable post mining land use is a problem with multi-dimensional nature. There are so many factors in this problem which seriously influence on the decision judgments. Therefore, in this study a fifty-attribute framework for mined land suitability analysis including fifty numbers of economical, social, technical and mi ....

An Exploration of Issues in the Attraction and Retention of Teachers to Non-metropolitan Schools in Western Australia

  • Year: 2008
  • Author: Frid, Sandra; Smith, Mellanie; Sparrow, Len; Trinidad, Sue
  • Journal Name: Education in Rural Australia
  • Journal Number: Vol. 18, No. 1
  • Country: Australia
  • State/Region: Western Australia

Recent graduates of pre-service primary/early childhood education programmes completed a written questionnaire to ascertain their teaching locations and professional development needs. Analysis of the data raised important questions concerning the attraction and retention of graduate teachers to non-metropolitan schools, challengin ....

Application of resiliency theory and adaptive cycles as a framework for evaluating change in amenity-transition communities

  • Year: 2008
  • Author: Hoffmann, Scott L.
  • Journal Name: ProQuest Dissertations and Theses
  • Publisher: Utah State University
  • Published Location: United States -- Utah
  • ISBN: 9780549797005
  • Country: United States

In recent decades, many rural, natural resource-dependent communities have experienced ubiquitous and oftentimes substantial economic decline due to downturns in their commodity-oriented industries. In spite of this, communities with access to varying forms of natural capital have experienced an upsurge in activities such as recreation, ....

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