We discuss the contribution of autocratic tendencies in democratically elected political leaders to the economic growth of developed economies. To this end, we exploit the unique election of Sir Charles Court as state premier of Western Australia in 1975 to estimate the contribution of...

This white paper utilises the observations and comments of a wide range of stakeholders and research about the implementation of the NDIS and its impact on the Australian Disability Services System. It is also informed by international experience and academic literature focused on economic...

This 2020 report is based on the 2018 Australian Charities and Not-for-profits Commission (ACNC) Annual Information Data Set. It is the second report in this series. The first report was published in 2017 and focused on 2015 data provided by Northern Territory charities to the ACNC.The number of...

Appropriate disability accommodation has been a longstanding issue in the Australian Community and has restricted the choice of both living arrangements and location for people with disabilities. The inclusion of disability accommodation provisions and housing in the NDIS funding model through...

The Australian Disability Services System requires complex, bespoke services and supports to be individualized and delivered reliably for often vulnerable people. To be effective, people with disability and care workers need to be at the very centre of the decision-making system, which means...

Due to the size and complexity of the NDIS reform, there has been a wealth of commentary andanalysis developed by the government, academia and industry groups; sometimes incollaboration. In this document we identify and summarise 84 reports representinggrey literature developed up to 2020 and...

This paper is intended to be a very brief snapshot describing the discussion surrounding demand and supply and the NDIS. We contend that the use of descriptions of activities that are normally used to describe market activities represents a threat to outcomes of the Scheme because it...

We examine the effect of political factionalism in the presence of weak state capacity on long-term economic growth. To this end, we exploit the 1958 civil uprising between Maronite Christian and Sunni Muslim factions in Lebanon to estimate the impact of factious tensions on long-term growth. To...

We examine the impact of e-procurement on economic growth. To this end, we exploit an ambitious implementation of large-scale mandatory e-procurement platform in New South Wales and Western Australia. By matching pre-reform growth dynamics and its covariates with the rest of the world, we...