This paper builds on a previous study which documented the poor socio-economic conditions of people living in the remote Northern Territory Aboriginal community of Thamarrurr. This paper asks the question "what is the opportunity cost to the nation of not improving the socio-economic conditions...

<title/> This article considers the requirement for a regulatory regime for the UK voluntary sector that is sensitive to the unique features of the sector, while also maximizing public trust and safeguarding the interests of wider stakeholders. Regulatory Impact Assessments are important mechanisms in...

Using alternative measures of term lending rates and counterparty risk and a wide variety of econometric specifications, we find that counterparty risk has a robust significant effect on interest rate spreads in the term inter-bank loan markets. In contrast, we do not find comparably robust...