An emphasis on the public provision of health and education in Thailand assisted both sectors to make a substantial contribution to the consistently high growth rates achieved during the 1980s. However, a review of development goals is opportune. Three types of reform are recommended: (a)...

The deployment of resources off the farm constitutes an important aspect of resource use in Australian agriculture. The aims in this paper are to document the nature and extent of off-farm employment and investment in the Australian grazing industry, to undertake an analysis to identify the...

This note examines Australia's "sustainable population" under simple assumptions about food production and export demand, and demonstrates the severe limitations of such estimates for policy making.

The Australian Agricultural Council and its Standing Committee on Agriculture have recently paid considerable attention to methods of increasing rural output in Australia and of expanding wheat production in particular. One of the problems at the forefront of discussion has been that of the...

Critical Path Planning and Scheduling is a labour management aid considerably in advance of those previously available. First devised for the U.S. Navy in 1958, it divides project programming into two phases planning, and scheduling. In the planning phase a graphic representation of all activity...

A telephone survey was conducted of 919 farms from three shires in the sheep/wheat belt of New South Wales. Data from the cohort study spanning 18 months measured the incidence and profile of farm work related injury, risk factors and the range of costs associated with injury occurrence. On...