Even though Australia has experienced frequent and large commodity export price shocks like the Third World, it seems … de-industrialization and distributional impact, and policy responses. In what way has Australia been different from other …

. Australia and California are two economies having the rare distinction of achieving 150 years of sustained high and rising … controls over immigration or capital movements, or trade policy. Australia did, and after 1900 pursued an increasingly …

. Using a novel data set we offer new evidence supporting unambiguously the view that, in sharp contrast with US, Australia …

India's Industrial Disputes Act (IDA) of 1947 requires firm with more than 100 workers to pay large costs if they …

While India is distinctive among developing countries for its fast-growing service sector, sceptics have raised doubts …

We compare the recent economic performances of China and India using a simple growth accounting framework that produces … roughly double that of India at the aggregate level, and also higher in each of the three sectors in both sub-periods. In …'s aggregate productivity growth. In contrast, 45 percent of the growth in India in the second sub-period came in services …

This paper empirically examines India's economic growth experience during 1960-2004, focusing on the post 1973 … acceleration. Careful attention is paid to data quality. The analysis focuses on two unusual dimensions of India's experience … raised that growth in services may be overstated. India will need to broaden its current expansion to provide manufactured …