OECD Regional Outlook 2014
Regions and Cities: Where Policies and People Meet
Regions and cities are on the front lines of many challenges faced by OECD countries today, from education and jobs to health care and quality of life. Getting regions and cities “right”, adapting policies to the specificities of where people live and work, is vital to improving citizens’ well-being. This second edition of the OECD Regional Outlook aims to help countries do just that. Part I describes the main trends and challenges today. Part II has a special focus on cities, looking at public investment, urban framework policies, and rural-urban issues. Part III presents a Policy Forum on the future of cities, with five contributions from distinguished authors and policy makers. Part IV offers profiles of regional development in all 34 OECD countries.
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Australia
In September 2013, with the change of government, a new ministry responsible for regional development was created: the Department of Infrastructure and Regional Development, absorbing the regional development tasks of the previous ministry, the Department of Regional Australia, Local Government, Arts and Sport. The new ministry is responsible for infrastructure, regional development, local government, territories and administration of the National Disaster Recovery Taskforce.
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