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This paper looks at the impact on Australia’s trade in crops (non-wheat grains and oilseeds) where GM technology has … been introduced. The model includes assumptions about the productivity gains of GM crops, possible consumer responses and …, the introduction of GM technology into the non-wheat grains and oilseeds sectors will have minimum impact on Australia …
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Single-Desk Marketing: Assessing the Economic Arguments identifies the potential benefits and costs and the strengths and weakness of various arguments in favour of current single-desk arrangements. It does not attempt to quantify the costs and benefits of arrangements in any particular industry.
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This study is part of a continuing program of research into the performance of economic infrastructure industries … consequences of failure to match levels of performance achieved overseas. It is based on data collected throughout 1997. …
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1997 and 2002. The study suggests there may be scope for further gains in the relative performance of Australian terminals. …
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Metering water consumption has been long advocated by economists in developing countries as a way to curb waste and prevent resource depletion. However, very few of these economists have studied the inefficiencies brought about by universal metering or the conditions under which decentralized...
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Despite the shortcomings of Hayek’s spontaneous order, there is a positive side, perhaps even a positive feedback. Hayek left us with a “what if” question and returns us to that initial opening of Pandora’s Box, or perhaps the initial onset of neo-realism, neo-liberalism,...
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This paper analyses growth and convergence on sugarcane industry in southeast Asia countries. Important questions in …
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-term trials by the Bangladesh Rice Research Institute (BRRI) also indicate that intensive rice cultivation can result in declining … also experienced a slowdown in the rate of growth of production and yield, and with research at the International Rice …
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of the elasticity of demand for irrigation water. It focuses on three main irrigated industries — rice, dairy and …
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On 28 August 1998 the Treasurer referred the impact of competition policy reforms on rural an regional Australia for inquiry and report within 12 months of receiving the reference. The Commission is to assess the impact (both transitional and ongoing) of the competition policy and related...
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