This paper examines the relationship between openness and within-country regional inequality across 28 countries over the period 1975-2005, paying special attention to whether increases in global trade affect the developed and developing world differently. Using a combination of static and dynamic panel data analysis, we find that while increases in trade per se do not...

Executive Summary In 2008, Americans consumed information for about 1.3 trillion hours, an average of almost 12 hours per day. Consumption totaled 3.6 zettabytes and 10,845 trillion words, corresponding to 100,500 words and 34 gigabytes for an average person on an average day. A zettabyte is 10 to the 21st power bytes, a million million...

This paper explores the differences in some key transport and land use factors in twenty-five metropolitan areas in the USA, Australia, Canada and Europe as well as Singapore in the year 2005-6.

This paper is a critique of the privatisation of the ‘Public Purpose Rule’ in the compulsory acquisition of land in Australia and United States.

The residential development industry, both in Australia and in the United States, has made strident protests about the direct and indirect costs associated with the planning process – from complying with building and design controls to the time taken to secure approval and contributions towards local infrastructure.