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Australian economy to lose shine in 2025

... London-based economic futurist and author Hamish McRae predicts that the US will remain the largest economic hub in the world by 2025 with China a close second but that Australia will be overtaken by India and Mexico. Speaking at this year's Fidelity ...

FTSE launches climate change criteria into SRI indices

ALEX DUNNIN  |  MONDAY, 12 FEB 2007
... with The Climate Group; The Institutional Investors Group on Climate Change; The Carbon Trust; Forum for the Future and the World Wildlife Fund.

Daily economic round-up

PETER BELL  |  WEDNESDAY, 24 JAN 2007
... on education and that spending on early childhood education is about 20 per cent of the group average. The World Economic Forum rates our science and mathematics education 29th behind the likes of India and the Czech Republic.

Daily economic round-up

PETER BELL  |  THURSDAY, 28 SEP 2006
In the latest Global Competitiveness Rankings by the Geneva based World Economic Forum Australia has slipped from its previous position of 10th to 19th. The rankings are a result of a global Executive Opinion Survey of 11,000 business leaders in 125 ...

Australian economy slips in world competitiveness rankings

AAP  |  THURSDAY, 14 OCT 2004
... in the world competitiveness rankings but remained in the top 15 of countries, a new report has shown. The World Economic Forum's (WEF) Global Competitiveness Report 2004-2005, released today, ranked Australia 14th out of 104 countries, placing it well ...

Telstra to host business forum series to foster trans-Tasman relations

... "Clearly the CER is more than a free trade agreement - it is one of the most successful examples of economic integration in the world." -with AAP