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Homegrown techs gain top billing

ELISE BURGESS  |  THURSDAY, 27 JAN 2011
... expenditure on Research & Development," she said. Australia was ranked seventh out of 134 countries surveyed by the World Economic Forum for the sophistication of financial markets in the Global Competitiveness Report 2008-09.

No pleasing Mr. Market

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 1 FEB 2010
... rest of the world down. But hear ye, hear ye to what People's Bank of China Deputy Governor Zhu Min told the World Economic Forum in Davos Switzerland. "We'll continue with current accommodative fiscal and monetary policy" in order to ensure that the ...

D'Aloisio nominated Joint Forum chair

COMPANY RELEASES  |  MONDAY, 12 OCT 2009
... become the pre-eminent global economic decision making body," he said. This announcement comes after the 2009 World Economic Forum Financial Development Report ranked the best for financial market access and third, behind the US and UK, for non-bank ...

Chinese walls and windows

SUZY MAC  |  FRIDAY, 5 OCT 2007
... domestic brokerages. Shang Fulin, chairman of the China Securities Regulatory Commission said in a speech at the World Economic Forum, "After the completion of a three-year restructuring of the domestic brokerage industry, we will resume reviewing the ...

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 ...
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