AUSTRALIAN JOURNAL OF AGRICULTURAL &RESOURSE ECONOMICS
VOL. 43, NO.1, March 1999

ARTICLES
Attenuating indigenous property rights: land policy after the Wik 1
decision
David Godden


An analysis of the Western Australian gold royalty 35
Rob Fraser

The dynamics of phase farming in dryland salinity abatement 51
Ute Mueller, Steven Schilizzi and Tuyet Tran

SURVEY

Issues in defining property rights to improve Australian water markets 69
D. Brennan and M. Scoccimarro

POLICY FORUM

On the balance between strategic-basic and applied agricultural research 91
David J. Pannell

Institutional and social influences on R&D evaluation in agriculture 115
Ross Kingwell

OBITUARY
Remembering T.W. Schultz, breaker of new ground 129
Barbara andJan Wills


BOOK REVIEWS 133

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AUSTRALIAN JOURNAL OF AGRICULTURAL & RESOURCE ECONOMICS

Volume 43 ,Number 3 , September 1999


ARTICLES

The state of resource taxation in Australia: 'An inexcusable folly 259
for the nation'?
Rob Fraser

How different is mining from mineral processing? A general 279
equilibrium analysis of new resources projects in Western Australia
Ye Qiang

A genetic algorithm approach to farm investment 305
Oscar Cacho and Phil Simmons

The optimal management of research portfolios 323
Peter Bardsley

Choice modelling: assessing the environmental 337
values of water supply options
Russell Blarney, Jenny Gordon and Ross Chapman

Food consumption patterns and nutrition in urban Java households: 359
the discriminatory power of some socioeconomic variables
Allan N. Rae

POLICY FORUM — The Asian Crisis

Coping with the emerging markets crisis: a view from the markets 385
BruceHockman


Metals resources: products in turmoil 397
Michael J. Shea

The Asian crisis and the 1999 WTO negotiations 409
Lyall Howard

BOOK REVIEWS

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