A model of bank rural lending in Australia for the period 1950/1973 is constructed to measure the effects of various rural credit policies on bank rural advances. Results indicate that rural sector bank deposits did not influence the rural sector's share of advances; Farm Development Loan Fund...

Agricultural policy has been analysed systematically in Australia but the process of policy formation is not well understood. Distributional dimensions of policy issues influence decisions and policy analysts might improve their performance by better identification of these dimensions without...

Studies evaluating efficiency of resource use on farms and farmer welfare have commonly failed to specify the precise nature of problems often described in terms such as 'low-income'. Hence superior, alternative welfare and resource use positions, of interest to the policy formulator, are...