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Political aspects of innovation: Examining renewable energy in Australia
Effendi, Pranoto; Courvisanos, Jerry - In: Renewable Energy 38 (2012) 1, pp. 245-252
Despite possessing a very large potential of renewable energy sources, Australia has lagged behind other developed … governments. Nevertheless, the proportion of renewable energy in electricity generation in Australia has not increased … significantly. This paper seeks to explain why Australia has difficulties in adopting renewable energy by using the Political Aspect …
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Picking winners and policy uncertainty: Stakeholder perceptions of Australia's Renewable Energy Target
Simpson, Genevieve; Clifton, Julian - In: Renewable Energy 67 (2014) C, pp. 128-135
Australia's Renewable Energy Target (RET) mandates investment in renewable electricity generation through a renewable …
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Sustainability in architectural education: A comparison of Iran and Australia
Taleghani, Mohammad; Ansari, Hamid Reza; Jennings, Philip - In: Renewable Energy 36 (2011) 7, pp. 2021-2025
Over the past decade, several new approaches have emerged to renewable energy education that seek to address the needs of the 21st century for sustainable energy supply systems. In addition, unlike conventional architectural education which does not cover renewable energy issues in its...
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Right Peer, Right Now? Endogenous Peer Effects and Achievement in Victorian Primary Schools
McVicar, Duncan; Moschion, Julie; Ryan, Chris - Melbourne Institute of Applied Economic and Social … - 2013
This paper presents estimates of endogenous peer effects in pupils’ school achievement using data on national test scores, across multiple subjects and cohorts, for the population of primary school pupils in Years 3 and 5 (aged 7/8 and 9/10 years) in the Australian state of Victoria....
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Can we get there from here? Implementing health reform in Australia. CHERE Working Paper 2013/02
Hall, Jane; Kenny, Patricia; Power, Prue - Centre for Health Economics Research & Evaluation … - 2013
The Australian Health Reform Agreement has provided the basis for major change in the delivery of health care services. While the components of reform have undergone extensivenegotiation between Commonwealth and State governments, and have been subject to academic and other commentary, little is...
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The evolving role of organisational and personal networks in international market venturing
Eberhard, Manuel; Craig, Justin - In: Journal of World Business 48 (2013) 3, pp. 385-397
In a study of 1304 Australian manufacturing industry SMEs, we investigate the relationships among networking (i.e., inter-personal and inter-organisational networks), international market venturing (i.e., export intensity), and family ownership. We find evidence that (1) inter-personal...
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Why Australia Prospered: The Shifting Sources of Economic Growth
McLean, Ian W. - Princeton University Press
This book is the first comprehensive account of how Australia attained the world's highest living standards within a … with the Aboriginal economy at the end of the eighteenth century, Ian McLean argues that Australia's remarkable prosperity … Australia played a prominent role in some periods and faded during others, but overall, and contrary to the conventional view of …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010681128
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Action programmes for the protection of homeworkers : ten case- studies from around the world.
U, Huws - International Labour Organization (ILO), United Nations - 1995
The purpose of this study is to promote action through the provision of practical examples of programmes that have contributed to breaking the isolation of homeworkers, making them aware of their rights, helping them to organize and to increase their bargaining power, and generally improving...
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Why Australia Prospered: The Shifting Sources of Economic Growth
McLean, Ian W. - Princeton University Press
This book is the first comprehensive account of how Australia attained the world's highest living standards within a … with the Aboriginal economy at the end of the eighteenth century, Ian McLean argues that Australia's remarkable prosperity … Australia played a prominent role in some periods and faded during others, but overall, and contrary to the conventional view of …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010681710
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An alternative approach to the modelling of interest rate pass through and asymmetric adjustment
Valadkhani, Abbas; Bollen, Bernard - In: Economics Letters 120 (2013) 3, pp. 491-494
We propose an alternative approach to examine the nonlinear (asymmetric) behaviour of interest rates which can be both size and sign dependent. Compared to other widely used approaches, our model performs quite well based on two model selection criteria.
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