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. The inquiry will also look at relevant workplace issues and international trade developments. …
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Overcoming Indigenous Disadvantage: Key Indicators 2003 highlights the marked disparities between Indigenous and other Australians. While not the first report to assemble data on the social or economic status of Indigenous people, it is distinguished by the strategic framework within which the...
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This paper was one input to the Australian Government’s decision to remove tariffs on imports from the least developed … countries. The Commission’s analysis suggests that removing tariffs on imports from these countries could significantly boost … imports from these countries, particularly of clothing, and would have little impact on prices, incomes or jobs in Australia. …
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This paper is an empirical investigation on the relationship between trade globalization and political liberalization … prediction that political liberalization could discourage trade and trade could foster democracy. …
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is in terminal decline, and that the lost output is being replaced by imports from the developing world. Almost daily … without a more or less balancing volume of exports, and there is in reality limited scope for exporting a sufficient volume of … services. Imports of goods must more or less be balanced by the export of domestically produced goods. How can a widespread …
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This study is part of a continuing program of research into the performance of economic infrastructure industries, which was commenced by the Bureau of Industry Economics. It is the third Waterfront Benchmarking report in the cycle. The study builds on the two previous waterfront studies by...
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Productivity at Australian container terminals has improved significantly in absolute terms since 1997 according to this international benchmarking study. For the sample of ship calls and terminals studied, productivity improved also in relative terms. The productivity improvement at Australian...
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The Federal Government referred the citrus growing and processing industries to the Commission for inquiry and report. The inquiry examines the current situation and outlook for the citrus growing and processing industries and whether any measures are necessary to enhance the industry's...
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2001 terrorist attacks. Topics covered include cross-border commuting patterns, merchandise trade flows, immigration, and …
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We analyze two main theories of international trade, the Heckscher-Ohlin theory and the Increasing Returns trade theory … models can generate this prediction, we tackle the model identification problem by conditioning bilateral trade relations on … factor endownment differences and the share of intra-industry trade, because only for large factor endowment differences does …
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