An untouched natural landscape, low-density highly-educated
population, peaceful relationships with all, does Oceania offer
a future to the rest of the World? Or going beyond the stereotypes,
one would discover a sadder reality with cronyism, poor democracy
and extreme poverty levels, increasing youth unemployment, drugs,
crime and money-laundering?
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Essays: Agriculture
innovation system in Australia
The papers identifies eleven broad categories
of agents taking part to the innovation system. The kind of innovation
and the goals of innovation are explored and ranked by an empirical
survey.
Essay
Essays: Determinants
of GDP and some other macroeconomic variables in a small country:
the case of Fiji
GDP
Exports
Imports
Investments
Measures
of potential output
Inflation
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Essay: Australia's
maritime transport
Bulk
and tanker transport report; facts, figures, and analyses.
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Essay: How to
penetrate foreign markets from Australia
Exporters
often approach new markets just by participating to trade fairs,
meeting there potential importers and building business relationships
with them by trial and error. But a systematic overview of
foreing markets can offer a more structured approach. In this report
by U.N. Bhati,
you'll find a good instance of what an export manager can find in
such documents to orient its actions and business plans.
A Statistical Profile
of Forest Product Market in South Korea [362 KB]
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Economic
data: Main Vanuatu statistics
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Tourist arrival and their expenditure
Number and dollar expenditure of tourists for
199 countries (2000-2006).
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Essay: Water
privatization in Papua New Guinea
An attempt
of evaluation
PDF
A
world-wide discussion of water governance in comments to Human Development
Report 2006
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Economic
data: Human development index (162 countries)
A
rich report of reflections and data.
PDF
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Economic
data: Environmental respect data: the number of ISO14000 certified
firms in 98 countries - a time-series
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Economic
data: Composition of public expenditure
(education, health, defence...) - 69 countries in Oceania and other
areas (1975-1985)
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Economic
data: Gross domestic expenditure on R&D by source of funds
in 71 countries
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Economic
data: Health and
disease statistics worldwide
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Economic
data: Comparable wages for 162 jobs in 132 Oceanian and non-Oceanian
countries
The
MS Excel file with a user-friendly interface of the excellent dataset
by Freeman - Oostendorp. Long-term
time-series from 1983 to 1999. This data set allows for comparison
of wages across countries for the
same job, over time, underlining the differences between skilled
and unskilled works.
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Excel [2.9
MB]
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Economic
data: Productivity
in 99 countries (1950-2000)
Direct link to Groningen Growth and Development Centre and The
Conference Board, Total Economy Database, February 2004, at http://www.ggdc.net,
where you'll find a lot of useful industry and macro data about
Austrialia and New Zealand.
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Economic
data: Tax
revenue in OECD countries (1966-2000) plus a comparison in tax systems
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Economic
data: Exchange rates for
200 currencies, spanning across more than 20 years
In
one sheet you can track and compare the yearly dynamics of 200 world
currencies on the long term. Currency crises, fixed exchange rates
and wide fluctuations in a fully international perspective.
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Excel
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Economic
data: Long-term interest rates in OECD countries (1982-1998)
A
small dataset on interest rates
in Austrialia, New Zealand, and other developed countries.
MS
Excel [5
KB]
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Economic
data: Total
expenditure on health in OECD countries (1960-2000)
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Links
to international economic data: Recent
GDP figures in Oceania countries
GDP,
employment, unemployment,
wages, consumer
prices, tax revenue, balance
of payments, and so on. Daily or weekly updated.
http://dsbb.imf.org/Applications/web/sddsnsdppage/
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