Economic Growth

There has been a significant amount of work published which aims to understand the socio-economic performance of Australia's non-metropolitan regions, cities and towns. Significantly much of this work has illustrated the variation in outcomes that characterise different places as they adjust to new and evolving social, economic, de ....

This research investigates industrial regional growth and its determinants in Mexico from 1993 to 2003. Strategies of local economic development, usually based on industrial promotion, require knowing main determinants of industrial regional growth. The case study shows that there is no variable with a systematically strong effect for a ....

This paper draws upon the 2001 census to examine the impact of national economic reform on the growth of regional cities. The paper argues that regional cities in Australia have taken on new roles within both their region and the national economy. It argues that deregulation of the economy has contributed to the growth of some regional cities and ....

Debates about urban growth and change often center on specialization.However, arguments linking specialization to metropolitan economic development contain diverse, and sometimes conflicting, claims. Is it better to be highly specialized or diversified? Does specialization refer to the absolute scale of an activity in a region, its share within t ....

The State Growth Outlook provides an integrated outlook on the basis of the development intentions and plans of the resource industry and government in WA. First published in April 2009, the main focus of the study is the demand for the key growth enablers of water, people and energy – critical inputs into the economic prosperity of WA. Repo ....

The theme of the 2002-03 State of the Regions report is regional economic governance and along with the traditional update of the regional performance indicators, the Report focuses on governance and the linked issue of growing inequality between regions. This growing inequality is the result of the process commonly referred to as 'globalisation' ....

The focus of the 2003-04 State of the Regions report is on how ageing, migration and population growth impact on the economic potential of regions and the revenue raising capacity of local government. The fundamental message from this year's report is that for many regions strong positive population growth with a broad based age composition will ....

The 2005-06 State of the Regions report theme is at the very core of the issues that may well shape the economic development opportunities and competitiveness of Australia's regions. The Report explores the case for the use of telecommunications infrastructure, to assist regions improve their performance. Report Locationhttp://alga.asn.au/?ID=3 ....

The 2008-09 State of the Regions report continues to focus on the challenges of climate change, especially given the financial economic crisis engulfing the globe. The Report adds to the accumulated knowledge of previous reports on climate change, including discussion of the impact of emissions trading on regional households. Several case studies ....

This is the fourteenth State of the Regions Report. The Report is commissioned by ALGA and prepared by National Economics. This year's report incorporates the latest census analysis examining population and migration, as well as distribution of employment, income and household wealth, including the scale of private savings and mortgage burden ....

Much of Western Australia’s and the nation’s economy remain dependent on the export of minerals and energy products from the Pilbara and the Kimberley. Their ports play a vital role as international gateways. Forecasts for the continued growth of resource exports call for the assessment and strategic development of port infrastructure, requir ....

Many rural communities across America face several obstacles in the implementation of information and communication technologies (ICTs) initiatives and struggle with the best approaches for leveraging these elements into an economic development strategy. These obstacles include: lack of quality local ICTs infrastructure, funding, inabil ....

The 2012-31 Regional Roadmap provides both an overview of the Sunshine Coast economy in a State of the Region report and outlines the Priority Focus Areas that Regional Development Australia Sunshine Coast can implement, in collaboration with industry leaders and organisations. The priority focus areas have been developed over time in collaborat ....

Historically, the Sunshine Coast, which includes the three local government areas of Noosa, Maroochydore and Caloundra, has had an unemployment rate considerably higher than the national and Queensland state averages. However, recent analysis of unemployment trends by the Sunshine Coast Research Institute for Business Enterprise (S ....