As globalisation accelerates the international movement of organisms that are capable of carrying infectious diseases, it is becoming clear that global infectious disease management is an issue that demands concerted international action in order to be managed effectively. Health security has, in recent times, featured ever more prominently on the APEC agenda. However, there has...

This paper is concerned with the question of how couples should be taxed. One reason for the importance of this issue is simply that the overwhelming majority of individuals live in households formed around couples, and so it could be argued that empirically, this is the single most important problem in personal income taxation. A...

The unipolar world - the world of unchallenged US paramountcy in the society of states - was with us only rather briefly, for approximately ten years, from January 1992 until September 2001, argues Coral Bell.

This book brings together the key papers presented at the China and East Asian Energy conference held in October 2005 in Beijing. Contents 1 Introduction John Garnaut 2 Rapid industrialisation and the demand for energy and minerals: China in the East Asian context Ross Garnaut and Ligang Song 3 International supplies of energy for China...

Japan's small farming represents a puzzle. Currently nearly three-quarters of farmland is operated by farmers whose farm size is well under optimal size. Being too small is the main reason for the high cost of Japanese farm products, so why does inefficient, small farming persist and market mechanisms not function? This paper explains the political...