Product Description: This timely book examines the immense surges in immigration since the mid-1990s in Australia and the United States, two of the world's most important settler-receiving countries. Australia's shift to a points-based, skills-oriented system is contrasted with the political deadlock that has prevented any basic change in US immigration policy during this period...read more

Product Description: Australia's reputation as a successful large scale immigrant-receiving nation is well formed. In the latest wave, not only have millions of diverse people arrived in the post-war period from 1945 to a growing, high income, good employment economy; but the society absorbing them has remained stable and cohesive...read more

Product Description: This study draws together some of the best economists and public policy analysts in Australia to contribute to a major assessment and "audit" of the economy. It assesses the economy's recent performance in achieving an environment which encourages sustainable economic growth with an equitable income distribution...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Product Description: This collection of papers by eminent authors from Japan, the United States, Britain, Sweden, France, Spain, and Australia explores aspects of free trade, including Japan's trade surplus, perestroika in the West, and the scope for a regional Pacific trade bloc...read more