Economic development
Fact sheet
Room to grow: the Australia–India economic relationship
This resource shows the importance of ongoing development of economic ties between Australia and India. India is also only a modest destination for Australian outward investment, ranking as our 18th most popular investment destination and accounting for just 0.5 per cent of the total stock of Australian investment overseas as of end 2014, or A$9.8...
Strategy
Creative state: Victoria's first creative industries strategy 2016–2020
Creative State is the Victorian Government's strategy to strengthen and grow the state's creative industries and the value they bring to Victorians.
Video
The smartest places on earth: why rustbelts are emerging hotspots of global innovation
Examines the changing dynamic and the transformation of “rustbelt” cities, the former industrial centers of the U.S. and Europe, into a “brainbelt” of design and innovation.
Working paper
Foreign investment into Australia
Despite the essential contribution of foreign investment to Australia’s economic growth and prosperity, the benefits of foreign investment are not well understood. This paper aims to provide further insights into foreign investment in Australia by examining the trends, the sources and the positive effects of foreign investment into Australia. The available data on foreign investment...
Briefing paper
The challenges of China’s new global investment strategy
‘One Belt, One Road', or yidai yilu in Chinese, is on everyone’s lips these days. The ‘Belt and Road Initiative’ is Chinese President Xi Jinping’s signature foreign policy initiative. First announced in 2013, the land-based “Silk Road Economic Belt” and its maritime twin, the “21st Century Maritime Silk Road” are ambitious plans aimed at placing...