Honours Theses and Postgraduate Coursework: Recent submissions
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Aid-for-Trade: the Way Forward for Development?
Published 2012-01-01The failure to eradicate poverty through trade-induced economic growth over a number of decades raises questions about the latest initiative: Aid-for-trade. After examining whether the initiative signifies a new paradigm ...Open AccessThesis -
The Debate on Excess Capacity, Issues of Competition and Time
Published 2011-10-17There has been a great deal of soul-‐searching in the economic community over the past few years. Economists of varying stripes have begun to question the academic and business paradigm which is the orthodox approach to ...Open AccessThesis -
Income distribution, growth and social-welfare: towards an economic solution to the growth-equality trade-off problem
Published 2011-01-01This thesis assesses the social-welfare implications of modifications to the post transfer distribution of income, in the context of welfare maximising policy design. Both the inequality-distributional efficiency and ...Open AccessThesis -
The Contradiction of Concentration A Critical Evaluation of Australian Merger Law
Published 2009-01-01Open AccessThesis -
The Political Economy of Corruption Indexes
Published 2011-10-10Corruption indexes, such as the Transparency International’s Corruption Perceptions Index and the World Bank’s Control of Corruption indicator, have played a pivotal role in focusing global attention on corruption. Since ...Open AccessThesis