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Driving Productivity Growth

open access: yesAustralian Economic Review, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Background This article presents a summary of the main ideas for improving productivity from nine prominent Australian economists. Aims These ideas covered the need to reduce redundant regulations, smooth demand for power, reform incentives for skill acquisition, regulate AI, enhance competition, invest in place‐based innovation ecosystems and
Andrew Barker   +4 more
wiley   +1 more source

Barcelona’s Rec Comtal: the multiple lives of a millenary water infrastructure

open access: yesCidades, Comunidades e Território
The Rec Comtal is a canal that provided water to Barcelona for a thousand years, until it was disconnected from the water supply network in the late 20th century.
Isaac Marrero-Guillamón   +6 more
doaj  

Comparing the success and failure of the Murray–Darling Basin Plan's water recovery programs

open access: yesAustralian Journal of Public Administration, EarlyView.
Abstract The Murray–Darling Basin (MDB) Plan is held up by some as an exemplar for world‐leading water policy, whilst others have called it a failure. Total proposed recovery was to return 3200 GL of consumptive (e.g. namely irrigation) water use to non‐consumptive (e.g.
Sarah Ann Wheeler
wiley   +1 more source

Why do politicians employ public–private partnerships? Results from a mixed‐method study

open access: yesAustralian Journal of Public Administration, EarlyView.
Abstract Public–private partnerships (PPPs) have become increasingly common in government infrastructure programs around the world. This study collates and categorises the types of rationales that scholars have identified as the reasons for governments to use PPPs.
Sebastian Zwalf
wiley   +1 more source

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