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Population ageing and Australia's future
This volume provides evidence from many of Australia’s leading scholars from a range of social science disciplines to support policies that address challenges presented by Australia’s ageing population. It builds on presentations made to the 2014 Symposium of the Academy of the Social Sciences in Australia. The material is in four parts: Perspectives on Ageing Population Ageing: Glob…
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- 9
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- 9781760460662
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- xvi, 240 p
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- 304.610994 HAL p
Dilemmas of development : the social and economic impact of the Porgera gold …
The Porgera gold mine in the Highlands of Papua New Guinea is technically one of the most sophisticated and successful mines of recent times. In its second year of operations (1992) it was the third largest gold producing mine in the world. Socially, though, the mine has brought a range of massive changes for the local Ipili community-both positive and negative. Dilemmas of Development is a …
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- 14
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- 9781922144423
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- 338.274109953 FIL d
Social cost-benefit analysis in Australia and New Zealand : the state of curr…
All is not well with the evaluation of government programs and projects. Resources available to any society are limited. If governments are to increase the well-being of their citizens, they must be able to select and implement the socially most beneficial projects and policies. But many government agencies lack the expertise to carry out a cost-benefit analysis, or even to commission one…
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- 14
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- 9781760460198
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- -
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- Australia and New Zealand School of Government (ANZSOG)
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- 352.439 DOB s
The social sciences in the Asian century
In this collection of essays, we reflect on what it means to practise the social sciences in the twenty-first century. The book brings together leading social scientists from the Asia-Pacific region. We argue for the benefit of dialogue between the diverse theories and methods of social sciences in the region, the role of the social sciences in addressing real-world problems, the need to transc…
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- -
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- 9781925022582
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- xi, 191 p
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- 300.95 CAR t
Information systems foundations: the role of design science
This volume presents papers from the fourth biennial Information Systems Foundation Workshop, held at The Australian National University in Canberra from 2–3 October, 2008. The focus of the workshop was, as for the others in the series, the foundations of Information Systems as an academic discipline. The emphasis in this workshop was on the movement known as ‘Design Science’ and its impo…
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- -
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- 9781921666353
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- 318 p
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- 658.4038 HAR i
China 2002 : WTO entry and world recession
In 2002 China enters the WTO. Long awaited by the world’s trading economies, it now comes in a year of global recession. What effect will China’s entry into the WTO have at a difficult time? The rapid expansion of China’s trade has required large adjustment in its trading partners, and the expansion and adjustment will accelerate with WTO entry. The internal adjustment pressures in China …
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- 9781922144539
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- China Update Series
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- 382.920951.GAR
Japan's Future in East Asia and the Pacific
Japan’s Future in East Asia and the Pacific takes a ’big-picture‘ approach to Japan’s economic place in East Asia alongside that of China. It analyses Japan’s successes and experiments in trade policy as well as its failures in macro-economic policy. Japan’s diplomatic and economic integration strategies are also examined for their impact on East Asia and on Australia. The collectio…
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- 23
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- 9781921313622
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- 293
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- 337.52.PAN
Power, culture, economy: indigenous Australians and mining
Research over the past decade in health, employment, life expectancy, child mortality, and household income has confirmed that Indigenous Australians are still Australia’s most disadvantaged group. Those residing in communities in regional and remote Australia are further disadvantaged because of the limited formal economic opportunities there. In these areas mining developments may be the ma…
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- -
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- 9781921536878
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- 264 p
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- 305.89915 ALT p
China: twenty tyears of economic reform
China: Twenty Years of Reform outlines the experiences of China over the past two decades. It highlights the processes of reform, successes achieved, and problems faced during the economic transition. “China, and its relations with the international community, have been transformed. China’s economy has expanded five times, and its foreign trade by twelve. It has greatly increased consum…
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- 9781922144461
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- 330.951 ROS c
Framing the global economic downturn: crisis rhetoric and the politics of r…
The global economic downturn that followed the collapse of major US financial institutions is no doubt the most significant crisis of our times. Its effects on corporate and governmental balance sheets have been devastating, as have been its impacts on the employment and well being of tens of millions of citizens. It continues to pose major challenges to national policymakers and institutions a…
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- 9781921666056
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- 352.3 HAR f
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