There are an estimated 20,000 East Timorese people living in Australia. The majority came to Australia as refugees mainly between 1975 and 1995 fleeing first a civil war, then the violent Indonesian regime which invaded upon Portugal’s withdrawal from the tiny territory after 400 years of colonisation. Over the years, many members of the East Timorese refugee diaspora in Australia were active i...

The study investigates the long run relationship and causal between energy consumption economic growth in Brics countries during period 1990 – 2013. Pedroni panel co-integration method is applied to analyse among variables. causality variables analysed using Pair-wise Granger-causality technique. study’s results reveal that there a growth, consumption, employment trade openness countries. resea...

This study is intended to underline the importance of the role played by the cross-industry allocation of R&D resources, as indicated by several indices measuring R&D inequality, within the manufacturing industries of each country, and how it determines cross-country productivity growth. In other words, the main debate is whether national R&D policies for promoting productivity growth should be...