Agri-food case study - Micro reform - Impacts on firms
Bureau of Industry Economics report
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Agri-food case study - Micro reform - Impacts on firms (PDF 802.1 KB)Contents
- Preliminaries
- Cover, Copyright, Foreword, Contents, Summary
- 1 Introduction
- 1.1 Background
- 1.2 The reason for selecting the agri-food industries as a case study
- 1.3 Key objectives of the study
- 1.4 Support for the study
- 1.5 Methodology
- 1.6 Outline of the report
- 2 The agri-food industries and the BIE survey
- 2.1 The agri-food sector in perspective
- 2.2 Key inputs and the influence of government on costs to make and sell
- 2.3 The agri-food survey
- 3 Broad impacts of micro reforms on firms
- 3.1 Firms' perceptions of the impacts of reforms
- 3.2 Firms' perceptions about the pace of reforms
- 3.3 The changed competitive environment
- 3.4 Concluding comments
- 4 Positive outcomes from increased competition
- 4.1 Trade liberalisation and responses to increased competition
- 4.2 Firms' responses to increasing competition
- 4.3 Outcomes accompanying increased competition
- 4.4 Concluding comments
- 5 Building productive workplaces
- 5.1 Changes in productivity
- 5.2 Factors contributing to productivity changes
- 5.3 Industrial relations, workplace reforms and productivity changes
- 5.4 Concluding comments
- 6 Micro reform - challenges for the future
- 6.1 Key reforms for future competitiveness
- 6.2 Industrial relations
- 6.3 Input taxes/on-costs
- 6.4 Food standards and related regulations
- 6.5 Tariffs and statutory marketing arrangements
- 6.6 Infrastructure services - road freight and waterfront reforms
- 6.7 Environmental regulation
- 6.8 Concluding comments
