Following Solow's (2001) recent advice, this paper takes productivity as the left-hand-side variable and offers a cross-country analysis of its determinants. The analysis follows the two-stage methodology, the first of which is devoted to obtaining productivity estimates, and the second stage is...

This paper reviews new growth theories (NGT) from the perspective of developing countries. It shows that despite some views to the contrary, NGT and the growth debate that it spawned have some useful lessons for developing countries. Some of these lessons and ideas were indeed available from...

This article empirically examines the impact of R&D and climate change on the Western Australian Agricultural sector using standard time series econometrics. Based on historical data for the period of 1977-2005, the empirical results show that both R&D and climate change matter for long-run...

Australian wool producers are being told that exchange rate have driven systematic fluctuation in the price of their wool at auction. This paper presents some key findings of a major collaborative study on the effect of exchange rates on Australian wool prices with the Economic Research Centre...

Improving farm productivity is often touted as essential for the future prospects of Australian agriculture, particularly for the export-oriented broadacre farm sector. This paper draws on farm panel data for the period 2002 to 2011. The annual components of productivity of the same group of 223...

The paper distinguishes between 'immediate measures of the quality of civil administration' (IM-QCA), such as corruption, and the 'final measure of the quality of civil administration' (FM-QCA), which is the growth performance of an economy. The paper argues that, instead of being monotonic and...

The tremendous increase of the use of mobile phones in Bangladesh by the young users has expanded the cellular phones market that has also attracted the attention of the foreign investors. This article attempts to investigate underlying sets of consumer motives for using cellular phones in...

type="main" xml:id="ajar12040-abs-0001" <p>This paper examines broadacre farm performance in south-western Australia. This region has experienced pronounced climate variability and volatile commodity prices since the late 1990s. Relationships between productivity and profitability are explored...</p>

Nanotechnology is a highly prioritized area on the global scientific agenda. Research into nanotechnology has become part of various scientific disciplines due to its ability to control structures and materials at nanometer scale. This paper analyzes the nanoscientific output of traditional...

This paper examines the Sachs-Woo hypothesis that the gradual approach to reform, though successful in China, was not possible in the USSR because of structural differences between these two economies. To examine this hypothesis, this paper abstracts from the issue of structural differences by...