Economic indicators
Guide
Trends in key economic parameters: an economic context for independent schools in Australia
This guide provides easy reference to trends in key indicators and relevant school-based data to provide a picture of the economic environment in Australia. The information is provided to assist Independent schools and their Boards to consider the context and outlook for their school communities as part of their decision making and planning processes.
Report
The UK in the global economy
This report argues that the United Kingdom has Europe’s most geographically unbalanced economy, with wide disparities between nations and regions, and once-thriving communities suffering economic decline. These problems are not glitches in an otherwise healthy system; they are the result of structural flaws in the UK's economic model.
Report
Compound costs: how climate change is damaging Australia's economy
Australia’s financial regulators have recently made a call for action to deal with climate change, with the Reserve Bank of Australia, APRA and ASIC all citing risks posed by climate change as a central concern for the economy and financial stability. This report asserts that a credible national climate policy is needed to safeguard Australia's...
Report
Beyond neoliberalism: insights from emerging markets
This report, which is the output of an academic workshop hosted in January 2019, is organized around five areas where neoliberalism provides incomplete or unsatisfactory policy guidance: growth strategies and industrial policy, inequality, finance and monetary policy, the environment, and power and politics.
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The end of Chimerica: the passing of global economic consensus and the rise of US-China strategic technological competition
Chinese economic and trade malpractices over a long period of time are having profound distorting effects on the global economic system and US dissatisfaction is deepening and irreversible. This publication argues Australia has been slow or else reluctant to accept that the previous global economic consensus of free and open trade (especially with China) being...