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Daily economic round-up

PETER BELL  |  FRIDAY, 29 SEP 2006
... proportion of people in the retirement age bracket of over 65s. Japan has the highest such ratio and Turkey the lowest of 32 OECD countries. Australian males and females aged 65 were placed equally in terms of their international rank of life expectancy ...

Daily economic round-up

PETER BELL  |  WEDNESDAY, 13 SEP 2006
... central bank it does not need to pay interest on the $34 billion of Australian banknotes currently on issue. A report by the OECD has listed Australia as having the highest proportion of international students within its universities of its member countries. ...

Daily economic round-up

PETER BELL  |  TUESDAY, 29 AUG 2006
... sector contributing 1.2 billion, a 23 per cent increase, the national tally of 0.95 per cent of GDP is much less than the OECD average of 1.53 per cent of GDP. R&D spending in manufacturing is particularly at risk with many manufacturing companies heading ...

Daily economic round-up

PETER BELL  |  MONDAY, 21 AUG 2006
... be addressed by negotiations between the two national governments. In a related development, the secretary general of the OECD, Angel Gurria has welcomed the Japanese idea of an asian equivalent of the OECD that would coordinate and monitor economic ...

INGIM scores $500m in new mandates

KATE HAGE  |  MONDAY, 14 AUG 2006
... risk profiles." Wright said the group is employing increasing duration, curve and spread plays in portfolios confined to OECD countries at this point, but it has the ability to use debt and high yield strategies from emerging markets also.

Daily economic update

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 24 MAY 2006
The Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD) expects growth for its 30-member industrialised countries to be 3.1 per cent this year. This compares with International Monetary Fund (IMF) forecast for global economic growth of 4.9 ...

Call for personal tax cuts to plug company tax loophole

KATE HAGE  |  TUESDAY, 18 APR 2006
... held over a long period, tax on interest income, company tax and superannuation taxes are comparatively higher than other OECD countries. Writing in the Financial Review, Warburton said closing the gap would make Australia more competitive and help build ...

SG not a tax: Tax Inquiry

ALEX DUNNIN  |  THURSDAY, 13 APR 2006
... SG, along with base salary plus any incentives, as part of that total salary package," the report noted. However, because OECD definitions are quite specific that a tax must be a direct payment transfer to government rather than to a third party, such ...

Daily economic update

... interest rates nine times over the past two years, taking the benchmark official cash rate to 7.25 per cent, the highest in the OECD.

ABS christmas gift: free statisics for one and all

... through ABS information consultants, or through third-parties that distribute ABS data, eg the Reserve Bank of Australia or OECD. The challenge that the deal doesn't solve is that while the statistics are now free, it is still up to users to navigate ...