An Evaluation of the Financial Sustainability of Remote Australian Local Councils

Author(s)
Fellows, Caillan
Dollery, Brian
Marques, Rui
Publication Date
2022-06
Abstract
<p>Spatial remoteness in the sense of great distances between population centres and limited access to public services is an on-going problem in Australian local government, where there exist large, sparsely populated regions dominated by the ’tyranny of distance’. From a public policy perspective, it is important to understand the impact of remoteness on local authorities. Accordingly, in this paper, we estimate the relationship between remoteness and financial sustainability using a 2014–2018 sample of Australian local governments. In general, we find only limited empirical evidence for a relationship between geographical remoteness and financial sustainability as we have proxied it.</p>
Citation
Economic Papers: A journal of applied economics and policy, 41(2), p. 110-127
ISSN
1759-3441
0812-0439
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Language
en
Publisher
John Wiley & Sons, Inc
Rights
Attribution 4.0 International
Title
An Evaluation of the Financial Sustainability of Remote Australian Local Councils
Type of document
Journal Article
Entity Type
Publication

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