Projections and forecasts in Australia: The context
Despite the considerable expansion of demographic projection activity in Australia over the past two decades, comparatively little of this work has found its way into the academic literature. This issue of the Journal attempts to address this deficiency by bringing together six distinctive contributions on various aspects of demographic projections and forecasting. The present introductory paper describes the context of this work and provides an overview of the papers which follow.
Household projections for Australia
Abstract In October 1999 the Australian Bureau of Statistics released household and family projections for Australia for the first time. It is argued that the methodology used to undertake these projections, although an improvement on previous methodologies, may be giving misleading results and further work may need to be undertaken in developing a suitable methodology for household projections.
Did the metamorphosis from Export Processing Zones to Special Economic Zones improve the efficiency of trade enclaves in India?
In this paper, the efficiency of seven conventional Special Economic Zones in India is analyzed, by adopting a stochastic production frontier technique, for the period between 1986–1987 and 2007–2008.Results indicate that although the efficiency scores of these enclaves have improved over the years, specifically with the introduction of the SEZ policy (2000–2001), it is far below the threshold level as identified in the literature. Besides, one can also observe a discrepancy emerging between better export earning zones and efficient zones. On the determinants side, policy intervention and large geographical area, accompanied by clustering of units, are found to have impacted the efficiency scores of these enclaves positively.