The Bankwest Curtin Economics Centre was recently approached by the Australia China Business Council to evaluate the benefits of Western Australia’s trade, export and investment activity with China to the State’s households. This report outlines the findings.

This report explores the issues that Western companies face in approaching the once-in-a-century opportunity that is China.

This second edition of the report - prepared in collaboration with the Australia China Business Council (ACBC), continues our investigation of the broader economic linkages, explores the key trends within China’s continuing growth as a source market, and looks at the future improvements required for...

This report outlines how the majority of new Chinese investment is in services and consumption-led activities, which are assisting Australia in its transition to towards broader sources of growth.

The rise of China as a global economic powerhouse has been well documented. Perhaps less well known has been the emergence of China’s currency, the Renminbi (RMB), as one of the world’s truly global currencies. Use of the Renminbi was limited even ten years ago...