Increasing economic growth has long been the dominant position within the public policies of all South East Asian countries. More recently, a new issue, sustainability, has emerged within development economic literature, which has significant implications for the continual pursuit of economic...

Executive summary: This report documents the continuing growth and transition of the Western Region identified in the 2004 report by the Centre for Strategic Economic Studies (Sheehan and Wiseman 2004). It follows a number of reports about the Region (NIEIR 2004; LeadWest 2008), in each of which...

The starting point for this study is the fact that globalisation and the transition to a knowledge-based economy are driving a transformation of the nature and structure of the world economy. The rise in the knowledge intensity of economic activities and the increasing globalisation of economic...

The interest in, and the appeal of, fiscal federalism and fiscal decentralization have been increasing in recent years. At the same time many mature federations continue to evolve towards greater centralization, as Australia has evolved in the last one hundred years. The reasons for the...

Two central facts provide the motivation for this paper, and the intersection between them provides the central question. The first fact is the fundamental transformation of global economic activity which is taking place, and which is sometimes referred to as the emergence of the global...

Advances in information and communication technologies are disrupting traditional models of scholarly publishing, radically changing our capacity to reproduce, distribute, control, and publish information. The key question is whether there are new opportunities and new models for scholarly...

This report, prepared by the Centre for Strategic Economic Studies, Victoria University, explores the costs involved in research communication activities and some of the potential benefits available through emerging, more open, scholarly communication alternatives. The environment in which...

This paper reports on the development and application of a model used to estimate the costs of scholarly communication (i.e. scholarly publishing and related activities) in Australian higher education. A systems perspective was used to frame a review of the literature on the costs involved in...

Le présent rapport présente le développement et l’application d’un modèle permettant d’estimer les coûts de la communication scientifique (c'est-à-dire de la publication scientifique et des activités associées) au sein du système d’enseignement supérieur australien. Les auteurs...