There is enormous demand for high quality, reliable broadband service in regional Australia. But despite years of … planning and promises, significant action to improve access to broadband services has not yet taken place in regional Australia … schedule. This paper explores the need for better broadband in regional Australia and outlines the failure of the NBN to …

This paper analyzes the e ffect of regional income inequality within countries on individual life satisfaction. We use … from 1981-2008. Regional income inequality is measured by the coeffi cient of variation of regional GDP per capita. We find … that higher regional income inequality leads to lower life satisfaction in OECD countries. In non-OECD countries, we find …

In this paper we take a detailed look at the sectoral anatomy of regional growth in German regions over the period 1978 … categorize all German regions into one out of three groups with pro-trend , anti-trend or featureless regional growth. Afterwards …

Regional productivity differences are large and provide scope for productivity-enhancing inter-regional labor mobility …- enhancing migration margin, we explore the implications of regional productivity differences for the design of optimal tax … transfer-schemes. Regional inequality poses an additional restriction on the government which can limit optimal redistribution …