Industry Commission submission to the mid-term review of the Rural Adjustment Scheme.
Adjustment to change is a continuing challenge for all industries, including the agricultural sector. The impetus for rural adjustment can come from many sources including changes in the weather, technology, the quality of management, conditions in local and international economies, and the natural...
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Commonwealth of Australia,
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Table of Contents:
- Part 1.
- Report
- 1. Introduction
- 2. Rural adjustment and the evolving agricultural sector
- 2.1. Introduction
- 2.2. The nature of agricultural adjustment
- 2.3. Government assistance to agriculture
- 2.4. Changing government involvement in rural adjustment
- 3. Factors influencing government support for rural adjustment
- 3.1. Introduction
- 3.2. Efficiency perspective of RAS
- 3.3. Barriers to entry or to changing activity
- 3.4. Barriers to exit
- 3.5. Information gaps and asymmetries
- 3.6. Relationship with other interventions
- 3.7. A welfare rationale for rural adjustment assistance
- 3.8. Conclusion
- 4. Program performance
- 4.1. Introduction
- 4.2. Linking rural adjustment with government support
- 4.3. Interest rate subsidies and loans
- 4.4. Support for training and professional advice
- 4.5. Re-establishment grants
- 4.6. Land trading
- 4.7. Exception circumstances and related programs
- 4.8. Conclusion
- Part 2. Appendixes
- Appendix A. Commonwealth and state government support for agriculture
- Appendix B. The characteristics of farms buying and selling land
- Part 3. Statistical annex (available on request, or on hhtp://www.indcom.gov.aud/iclinks.html) In.