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The purpose of this paper is to provide evidence, and argue, that stunning as India’s success is, the potential – and need – is for still more reform and more rapid growth. 8 percent is a good rate of growth, but many are destined needlessly to be left behind for years to...
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and its links to research evidence. Although our paper uses the example of Australia, the arguments presented are also …
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Mexico for developing countries have provided spillover benefits to Australia. Varieties developed from those genetic … materials have resulted in yield increases in Australia. CIMMYT’s success in developing countries has also reduced the world … price for wheat. While the lower prices affect returns in Australia, the increased yields in Australia from the CIMMYT …
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Some countries’ financial systems have undergone significant changes in response to the global financial crisis. While Australia’s financial system also experienced a variety of pressures and changes as a result of the crisis, the overall effect was much less severe than in some...
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Very few women after the second World War made agricultural science their first career choice. Olga May Goss, however, in her 35 years in the Western Australian Department of Agriculture, saved more than one industry from ruin, thus contributing in no small measure to the economic prosperity of...
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Australia spends proportionally more on university R&D, particularly when compared with business expenditure on R … commercialisation of Australian university research results is vital if Australia is to obtain the best economic results from its … which university research commercialisation is conducted in Australia in order to identify the key components of the …
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The current economic crisis has taught another generation of Australians that their economy remains vulnerable to negative external shocks, as it has been since the depression of the early 1840s. So it is unsurprising that shocks and crises figure prominently in the economic history literature,...
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the past two centuries in Western Europe, the United States, Canada, Japan, and Australia. Grossman focuses on four major …
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