The complexity of Australia’s agricultural systems and the wide range of problems that rural areas currently face makes coordinated policy development difficult. This paper reports on a project that is using systems tools to develop an integrated catchment model to assist in this policy coordination problem. The focus here is on how an economic model of farmer behaviour can be adapted to permit...

This paper examines retirement behaviour and household income for older persons in Chile. It pays close attention to the sources of household income, income inequalities, and the economic vulnerability of older persons. This is important in order to evaluate whether labour market and social security reform in Latin America will improve the welfare of older groups, and especially their vulnerabi...