This paper is concerned with the question: what motivates Australia's provision of overseas aid to Indonesia? The econometric results on time series data obtained by testing a recipient need and a donor interest model suggest both these concerns are relevant to Australian aid decisons on...

The purpose of this paper is to outline a conceptual framework for analysing the quality of health care. This framework brings together the dominant notions within the medical literature and an approach taken in economics, specifically, the 'characteristics' or 'wants satisfaction' theoryof...

This essay is concerned with describing some issues associated with a relatively recent development in economics, viz. the economics of happiness literature. After providing a very brief account of the history of the concept of happiness, and the recent literature in economics, the focus turns...