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10m Aussies 'Like' Facebook

ALEX DUNNIN  |  THURSDAY, 17 MAY 2012
... Facebook is just a passing fad, but don't tell that to the 10 million Australians that use it, making Australia on a per capita basis one of Facebook's best markets. According to telephone survey of 1004 American adults conducted earlier this month ...

Fidelity: Asia focusing on intra-region trade

BEN COLLINS  |  TUESDAY, 15 MAY 2012
... growth and consumption. "On the economic side, when countries are poor, their savings rates are high. However once GDP per capita rises into the range between US$3,000 to US$10,000, savings rates decline and consumption becomes a larger portion of GDP," ...

Indonesia to defy world growth forecasts

ALEX DUNNIN  |  MONDAY, 17 OCT 2011
... currently enjoying the so-called demographic dividend which is estimated to contribute more than 1% to average annual per capita GDP growth in 1981-2010, according the to the ADB," they wrote. Mandiri Investasi expects that, based on United Nations estimates ...

Invesco shuns global brands in Asian growth story

MATT WOODINGTON  |  WEDNESDAY, 12 OCT 2011
... the history of developing nations becoming developed, we find that income levels typically settle at around US$30,000 per capita in modern day terms," said Yuen. "Most of the emerging Asian economies like China, India, Indonesia, Thailand, Malaysia and ...

Egypt not just another pyramid scheme

ALEX DUNNIN  |  THURSDAY, 3 FEB 2011
... considered to have the most diversified economy among the Arab states even though this diversity has been unable to lift its per capita GDP beyond about $6,000 or one-fifth that of Saudi Arabia, explaining why only 0.1 per cent of Egyptians pay income ...

AusFIN calls for 'fairer outcomes'

ELISE BURGESS  |  FRIDAY, 3 DEC 2010
... and Credit Reform Association, Consumer Credit Legal Centre (NSW), Council of Small Business of Australia (COSBOA), Per Capita and The Australia Institute as members. The association said it intends to improve the functioning of Australia's financial ...

Super should not be compulsory: Cox

RUTH LIEW  |  THURSDAY, 29 OCT 2009
... the country's Gross Domestic Product would have been 1.8 per cent lower in June 2008 without the super system. On a per capita basis, without superannuation, individuals on average would have been worse off in 2008 by around $930 a year, or almost $2,400 ...

Super saved the economy

MEDIA RELEASE  |  THURSDAY, 22 OCT 2009
... by the Allen Consulting Group, which was commissioned by the Association of Superannuation Funds of Australia. On a per capita basis, without superannuation, individuals on average would have been worse off in 2008 by around $930 a year, or almost $2,400 ...

Property still in favour

RUTH LIEW  |  MONDAY, 14 SEP 2009
... adult Australians continue to own shares - ranking Australia among the leading share owning nations in the world on a per capita basis. And while the total ownership level has declined from 46 per cent when the study was last conducted in 2006, following ...

Aussies cling to shares: ASX

RUTH LIEW  |  WEDNESDAY, 24 JUN 2009
... the market at some stage. Internationally, Australia ranks among the leading share-owning nations in the world on a per capita basis, notes the ASX. Only the US, with 45 per cent of share ownership among households, outranks Australia.