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Australia's reversing fertility

ALEX DUNNIN  |  TUESDAY, 19 FEB 2008
... per cent of our population increase. Australia's 1.5 per cent population growth puts us ahead of the 1.2 per cent world growth but behind India's 1.6 per cent. It however exceeds Indonesia's 1.2 per cent, New Zealand's 1.0 per cent, Canada and the US's ...

Our rates a global sideshow

ALEX DUNNIN  |  TUESDAY, 12 FEB 2008
Slowing world growth, a collapsing US dollar and a still very nervous global credit market won't slow down world capital flows but rather increase them, said McKinsey in its latest newsletter. "Amid the turmoil, it's easy to forget that long-term structural ...

World growth to drop by one-fifth, but no US recession: IMF

ALEX DUNNIN  |  MONDAY, 4 FEB 2008
... level last year is nowhere near as big as the fall these other countries experienced. Counter-balancing developed world growth of less than 2 per cent, growth in emerging market and developing countries is expected to ease but still be more than four ...

Australia trailing towards the future

CHRIS NICHOLLS  |  FRIDAY, 1 JUN 2007
... Australia's financial future at the Rainmaker Information Marketing Symposium, Neville pointed out that, while the world growth average continued to lift over the last decade, Australia's actually dropped, and currently sits at just two percent - three ...

Daily economic round-up

PETER BELL  |  TUESDAY, 13 FEB 2007
... pressure resulting from high employment as well as strong commodity prices and an economy near full capacity. While world growth was 5.4 per cent last year it is expected to be about 4.7 per cent this year. The impact of economic growth on population ...

China growth an uneven story: Keating

... savings dilemma, though, does not take away the country's leading role in the new world economy. "China's increment to world growth is now broadly in line with the contribution made by the US." For example, Keating highlighted that the US is creating ...

Daily Economic Round Up: All about Housing

PETER BELL  |  FRIDAY, 15 SEP 2006
... 3.4 per cent although this is anticipated to fall to 2.9 per cent next year. The IMF has expressed concerns that world growth is threatened and some uncertainty is likely to continue in equity markets as a sharper than expected US slowdown scenario concern ...

Market wrap

AAP  |  THURSDAY, 10 AUG 2006
... data. The Australian share market finished lower yesterday, despite a late recovery, amid fears of a slowdown in world growth. The benchmark S&P/ASX200 index shed 62.8 points to 4962, while the all ordinaries was down 59.4 points at 4929.7. NEW YORK ...

Economists clash over rates and $A

... said he expects a steady interest rate environment for the remainder of the year, but the slowdown in China, and world growth could force the Reserve Bank to reduce interest rates before needing to raise them. Koukoulas agreed adding the drought as another ...

Property investment interest falls in December quarter: survey

AAP  |  TUESDAY, 16 DEC 2003
... continued growth prospects in company earnings both in Australia and abroad. "We believe we are on track for above par world growth in 2004 and this will underpin corporate earnings growth and commodities," he said. The survey also found that investors ...