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 …

evolution of regional employment disparities. Therefore, this paper investigates the hypothesis of convergence for the total … stochastic convergence is rejected for regional low-skilled and medium-skilled employment rates. … employment rate and skill-specific employment rates of West German regional planning units for the time period 1989 to 2008. This …

over time. It examines the hypothesis of convergence for regional unemployment rates of western German Federal States and … the time period 1968 to 2009 following different concepts of convergence. Western German regional unemployment rates … exhibit beta-convergence but no sigma-convergence. Further, regional unemployment rates show a high degree of intra …

We contribute to the role of telecommunications infrastructure on economic growth in three ways. We separately examine … growth. We find that mobile services contribute much more to growth but that the effect diminishes as the provincial economy …

growth across the globe. In a large sample of countries, equality in the distribution of income as measured by the World Bank … in the World Values Survey, and democracy, all of which are good for growth as reflected in the purchasing power of per …