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Showing 1 to 20 of 30 for “"Centre for Strategic Economic Studies (CSES)"”.
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Low Paid Employment In Australia
… in jobs where they have limited opportunities for sustained employment and earnings progression? This empirical investigation is undertaken within a dynamic framework. It unfolds evidence about the experiences of the low paid and the unemployed in the Australian labour market with both …
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Urban planning and the place marketing model : an application to cities and provinces in Viet Nam
… trend in order to define a new approach to the economic planning of places based on the principles of marketing, now called ‘place marketing’. This thesis sets out to clarify the key concepts and the implementation model of place marketing, and to examine the effectiveness of place marketing …
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An empirical study of the key knowledge economy factors for sustainable economic development in Oman
Heavy economic dependence on oil revenues has come under scrutiny in most oil producing countries, including the Sultanate of Oman. The main catalysts for this have been the gradual decline of oil production, depletion of oil reserves, fluctuations in oil price and high rates of population growth …
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Accounting for growth in the Pharmaceutical Benefits Scheme
… offering an expanding range of treatments for disease, (ii) PBS processes for determining the prices of medicines and their conditions of listing and (iii) the demand by patients for PBS medicines. In doing so it uses trend analysis presented in both tabular and graphic form, expenditure …
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Is economic growth desirable? A welfare economic analysis of the Thai experience
The desirability of economic growth is an emerging question in contemporary development studies. A dominant view both within the literature and public policy is that economic growth is desirable as it is the best means to increase social welfare and enhancing social welfare is a rational objective …
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Foreign Direct Investment from Developing Countries: A Case Study of China's Outward Investment
This thesis presents an interpretation of foreign direct investment (FDI) by Chinese firms. The research is motivated by the phenomenon that, compared with foreign investment in China, direct investment from China has so far attracted relatively little attention from researchers. The development of …
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Fashion's Influence on Garment Mass Production: Knowledge, Commodities and the Capture of Value
… and is certainly not analysed as a structuring force over the configuration of garment production industries. Yet through fashion, garments as commodities are complexly embedded in social and cultural processes and in the specificities of place. Although the structures of the global garment …
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The contribution of information and communication technologies for development (ICT4D) projects to capabilities, empowerment and sustainability : a case study of iREACH in Cambodia
… this thesis is to develop and test a framework for understanding whether, how and under what circumstances information and communication technologies (ICT) can contribute to development.
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Petroleum resources, linkages and development: the case of Oman
… to contribute to the discussion of how this transformation can take place. The specific aims of the study are to examine: (1) linkages between oil resource extraction activities and economic development in Oman; (2) linkages between government expenditure and non-oil GDP growth; (3) economic …
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Inflation dynamics and monetary policy in Indonesia
… the world have gone through a significant transformation in monetary policy. Their central banks now set low and stable inflation as their ultimate target in the long run. The main components of the successful implementation of this inflation targeting are transparency and credibility, and their …
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Information technology industries and national competitiveness
… rapidly restructured under the impact of the information technology revolution, moving towards knowledge-intensive economic activities. There is now in the literature a range of theories that provide a rationale for a link between industrial structure and competitiveness. One implication of such …
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Developing the information industry in China : a case study in government learning in the plan to market transition, 1979-1996
… by the government in its role of driving strategic innovation and institutional change, has been central to China's achievement. This is not possible in an abrupt transition process, but has been a key feature of China's evolutionary process of transition from plan to market.
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The diversity and effectiveness of industrial policies in East Asia : a case study of the Republic of Korea, Malaysia and Thailand, 1960-1997
… is one of the contentious issues in applied economics. It is acknowledged in the literature that there exist a wide range of factors giving rise to deviations from the competitive market paradigm - sunk costs, economies of scale and scope, oligopoly, externalities and complementarities, …
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Innovation and growth in the Indonesian economy
… role of new ideas and innovation in Indonesian economic growth, drawing heavily upon recent theoretical and empirical literature. A survey of recent literature shows that the process of learning through the production and use of ideas is a critical element in modern growth theory. For developing …
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The effectiveness of quality control systems in Australia and Japan : a comparative analysis
… through extensive interviews, of five case studies (including Japanese firms in Japan, Japanese subsidiaries in Australia and Australian firms) to identify the differences in actual practice in the two countries. One aim is to define the characteristics of the ‘mature’ system of Japanese …
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Learning in industry, innovation and growth
This thesis investigates issues of learning, innovation and growth by considering arguments from disparate schools of theory, and by an empirical investigation. The development of new growth theory models that demonstrate sustained growth driven by endogenous learning and innovation is reviewed. …
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Human-trafficking for sexual exploitation in Australia : the deafening silence on demand
… and into Australia. It examines international efforts to fight the problem, noting that these encounter two fundamental barriers. The first is that poverty and sex discrimination in source countries generates an ongoing supply of trafficked women. The second in the words of one senior United …
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Thailand's openness and implications for economic and trade policy: an econometric study
… policy in accordance with current regional economic integration, World Trade Organisation obligations and globalisation. Nevertheless, several recent internal and external factors such as the severe acute respiratory syndrome (SARS) and avian flu outbreaks, the Indian Ocean tsunami …
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Information technology and economic growth : the case of the banking system in the People's Republic of China
Information technology has gained considerable prominence among both researchers and practitioners concerned with economic development in recent years, because of its potential to transform fundamentally both economic activity and the global relationships within which development takes place. …
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Dimensions of Earnings Inequality in Australia
… nations have seen major social and economic changes. For Australia, two of these have been increasing inequality of earnings and the growth in alternative forms of employment arrangements. For the US and a number of other countries, the prevailing explanation for the increase in …
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