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Could the anti-woke movement come to Australia?

ROSE MARY PETRASS  |  WEDNESDAY, 24 MAY 2023
... Florida, which actively prohibit pension funds in their jurisdictions from following ESG principles. In July 2022, The Economist released an article arguing that ESG is "the three letters that won't save the planet". Then, in March, US President ...

abrdn chief economist rejoins Reserve Bank

ELIZABETH FRY  |  MONDAY, 8 MAY 2023
... of International Finance and a senior economist at the OECD. "It is more than fair to say that I wouldn't be the economist I am today without the guidance and mentoring of the senior staff I worked under, many of whom are still at the Bank today," ...

Low wage growth a deliberate design feature: ACTU

ANDREW MCKEAN  |  TUESDAY, 3 MAY 2022
An ACTU report has blasted the Coalition government for the consistent entrenchment of low wage growth. The Morrison missing in action on wages report shows that over the entire term of the Morrison government, real wages have fallen by 2.3%. This is ...

Economic recap: Week to October 22

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 25 OCT 2021
... many nations around the world and yet inflation remained dead. So much so that in its 13 April 2013 publication, The Economist printed "The death of inflation" with the tagline "Central banks in the rich world may have been too successful in subduing ...

Chief economist update: An extra mile for a deal

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 14 DEC 2020
... risk of a no-deal is more likely come December 31 when the transition period ends. What happens then? According to The Economist magazine: "Even if there is a last-gasp deal, it will be "thin", at best similar to the free-trade agreement (FTA) between ...

COVID-19 upends business travel, technology

KARREN VERGARA  |  MONDAY, 30 NOV 2020
... expect to scale back their business travel plans substantially in the future. The research, made in conjunction with The Economist Intelligence Unit, found nearly two-thirds (64%) of chief executives in the Asia Pacific leading the financial services ...

Chief economist update: The cure for Italy's tourism problem

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 11 MAR 2020
... the Italian government's latest move to prevent the spread of the coronavirus - a total lockdown. According to The Economist, the government announced "nationwide curbs on a wide range of events that were likely to put large numbers of people in ...

Chief economist update: COVID-19 could hit Australia with triple whammy

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 14 FEB 2020
... being compared - outbreak in 2003. Further, China is now much more interconnected with the rest of the world. As The Economist writes: "Its manufacturers have also become enmeshed in supply chains of mind-boggling complexity. A factory in Wuhan may provide ...

Chief economist update: Cloudy 2020 vision for OECD

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 22 NOV 2019
... "get some confidence back in this market," Jim Fitterling, chief executive of US chemicals producer Dow said in The Economist earlier this year. "The future is going to be more of the same... increase in uncertainty," Kaldoon Al Mubarak, chief executive ...

Chief economist update: Is the A$ becoming a safe-haven currency?

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 28 OCT 2019
... debt obligations, Australia can repay them better. This is underscored by our current account and budget balances. The Economist estimates Australia's current account to be +0.1% of GDP this year and its budget balance also +0.1% of GDP. This compares ...
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