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2006

The national and regional economic consequences of rapid growth in Australia's telecommunications sector

  • Year: 2006
  • Author: Giesecke, James
  • Journal Name: Economic Analysis and Policy
  • Journal Number: Vol.36, Nos 1-2,
  • Country: Australia

The Australian telecommunications services sector has experienced rapid growth in recent years, with real output increasing at an annual average rate of approximately 20 per cent since 1996/97. Impetuses to this growth were competition-promoting reforms and the diffusion and introduction of new telecommunications products and technologies. this p ....

The National Mental Health Strategy and Geographical Access to Mental Health Services: Some Empirical Results

  • Year: 2006
  • Author: Doessel, DP; Scheurer, Roman W; Chant, David; Whiteford, Harvey
  • Journal Name: Australasian Journal of Regional Studies, The
  • Journal Number: Vol. 12, No. 2
  • Country: Australia
  • State/Region: Queensland

In 1992 the Australian Government adopted the National Mental Health Strategy in an attempt to improve the provision of mental health services. A component was to improve geographical access to hospital-based mental health services. This paper is concerned with determining if this objective has been achieved. Timeseries data on pat ....

The need for relapse prevention strategies in Top End remote indigenous mental health

  • Year: 2006
  • Author: Nagel, Tricia
  • Journal Name: Australian e-Journal for the Advancement of Mental Health (AeJAMH)
  • Journal Number: Vol.5, No.1
  • Country: Australia
  • State/Region: Northern Territory

The Australian Integrated Mental Health Initiative in the Northern Territory (AIMHI NT) is one site of a National Health and Medical Research Council (NHMRC) Strategic Partnership initiative seeking to improve remote indigenous mental health outcomes - in a context of increasing hospital admissions and high readmission rates. Remot ....

The New Rural Paradigm: Policies and Governance

  • Year: 2006
  • Author: Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development
  • Publisher: Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development
  • Published Location: Paris, France
  • ISBN: 9264023917

Rapid change in the international economy – globalisation, improved communications and reduced transportation costs, changing trade patterns for commodities, and the emergence of important non farm activities in rural regions – confront rural regions with some obvious threats but also with significant opportunities. Against this background, p ....

The Process of Policy Innovation: Prison Sitings in Rural North Carolina

  • Year: 2006
  • Author: Hoyman, Michele; Weinberg, Micah
  • Journal Name: Policy Studies Journal
  • Journal Number: Vol.34, No.1
  • Publisher: Policy Studies Organization
  • Published Location: Washington, United States
  • Country: United States
  • State/Region: North Carolina

We gauge the relative impact of economics, demographics, and politics on the decisions of 79 rural North Carolina counties whether to site a prison in the period 1970-2000. The results of this model demonstrate that, contrary to the expectation that counties site prisons in response to economic distress, the demographic characteristics ....

The regional impact of housing costs and assistance on financial disadvantage

  • Year: 2006
  • Author: McNamara, Justine; Tanton, Robert; Phillips, Ben
  • Publisher: Australian Housing and Urban Research Institute
  • Published Location: Melbourne, Vic
  • ISBN: 192120110X
  • Country: Australia

The influence of housing costs on the economic well-being of Australian households at a regional level and the regional impact of housing assistance on financial disadvantage is as yet relatively unexplored. The paper describes a research project, placed within the broad conceptual framework of a deprivation approach to poverty and ....

The role of multinational enterprises and geographical spillovers on regional development in Thailand

  • Year: 2006
  • Author: Sajarattanachote, Suksawat
  • Journal Name: ProQuest Dissertations and Theses
  • Publisher: State University of New York at Buffalo
  • Published Location: United States -- New York
  • ISBN: 9780542778001
  • Country: Thailand

This dissertation is concerned with the relationship between industrial agglomerations and geographical spillovers arising from the investment of multinational enterprises (MNEs) in Thailand. It seeks to examine two objectives. The first objective is to identify provinces with significant industrial agglomerations or hotspots, and the s ....

The Role of Telecommunications Infrastructure in Regional Economic Growth in China

  • Year: 2006
  • Author: Ding, Lei; Haynes, Kingsley
  • Journal Name: Australasian Journal of Regional Studies, The
  • Journal Number: Vol. 12, No. 3
  • Country: China

Different from traditional infrastructures, telecommunications infrastructure has greater potential to lead "leapfrogging" development in the developing countries. This paper provides empirical evidence on the links between telecommunications infrastructure and regional economic growth in China. With a panel dataset of 29 regions o ....

The tholian web: The political/institutional context of regional cluster-based economic development

  • Year: 2006
  • Author: Miller, Chad R
  • Journal Name: ProQuest Dissertations and Theses
  • Publisher: Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University
  • Published Location: United States -- Virginia
  • ISBN: 9780542859243
  • Country: United States

This is an exploratory study that applies the dominant theories of the community power structure literature to the trend of regional cluster-based economic development policy in order to develop a conceptual framework of the political/institutional context of this "new" approach. In order to develop a framework that can be utilized by p ....

The Two-speed Australian Economy - the Decline of Sydney's Labour Market

  • Year: 2006
  • Author: Mitchell, William; Bill, Anthea
  • Journal Name: People and Place
  • Journal Number: Vol. 14, No. 4
  • Country: Australia

Australia is experiencing a two-speed economy in which New South Wales and Sydney are doing poorly in comparison to the mining regions of Western Australia, Queensland and the Northern Territory. Several factors contributing to the two-speed phenomenon: the terms of trade for base metal commodities; the decline in manufacturing; th ....

The Use of Location Quotients and Shift-share Analysis in Regional Development Planning

  • Year: 2006
  • Author: Hodgkinson, Ann
  • Journal Name: Sustaining Regions
  • Journal Number: Vol. 5, No. 2
  • Country: Australia
  • State/Region: New South Wales

Discusses location quotients and shift-share analysis as the traditional and somewhat old-fashioned methods for regional development planning. The regional development strategies used in the Illawarra region of New South Wales (NSW), which lies on the coast south of Sydney, are highlighted. Report Locationhttp://search.informit.com.au ....

Towards a More Regional Federalism: Rural and Urban Attitudes to Institutions, Governance and Reform in Australia

  • Year: 2006
  • Author: Brown, AJ; Gray, Ian; Giorgas, Dimitria
  • Journal Name: Rural Society
  • Journal Number: Vol. 16, No. 3
  • Country: Australia
  • State/Region: Queensland, New South Wales

Governance reform is increasingly understood in terms of partnerships, flexibility and growth in the 'noninstitutionalised' forms of decision-making, but what do Australians make of the governmental institutions still so crucial to the theory and reality of governance? In Australian discussions about new spatial approaches to governance ....

Towards sustainability for Australia's rangelands: analysing the options

  • Year: 2006
  • Author: Lesslie R; Hill M; Woldendorp G; Dawson S; Smith J
  • Publisher: Australian Department of Agriculture, Fisheries and Forestry
  • Country: Australia

The Australian rangelands occupy approximately three-quarters of the continent. They support diverse communities and businesses and make an important contribution to Australian society. The rangelands are landscapes where land use is dominated by pastoralism - extensive sheep and cattle grazing on native pastures. Rainfall is gener ....

Trialing NRM resource condition indicators in the coastal zone

  • Year: 2006
  • Author: Mount R
  • Publisher: National Land and Water Resources Audit
  • Published Location: Canberra, ACT
  • Country: Australia
  • State/Region: Tasmania

A trail was conducted in Tasmania to evaluate the pathway for implementing consistent statewide collection and management of estuarine, coastal and marine environments monitoring data as part of the natural resource management (NRM) condition indicators in the coastal zone. NRM regional managers, and NRM project service providers p ....

Understanding and promoting adoption of conservation practices by rural landholders

  • Year: 2006
  • Author: Pannell, D.J.; Marshall, G.R.; Barr, N.; Curtis, A.; Vanclay, F.; Wilkinson, R.
  • Journal Name: Australian Journal of Experimental Agriculture
  • Journal Number: Vol.46, No.11
  • Country: Australia

Research on the adoption of rural innovations is reviewed and interpreted through a cross-disciplinary lens to provide practical guidance for research, extension and policy relating to conservation practices. Adoption of innovations by landholders is presented as a dynamic learning process. Adoption depends on a range of personal, social, cultura ....

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