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CEDA calls for 'seamless economy' reforms as Roundtable begins

ELIZA BAVIN  |  WEDNESDAY, 20 AUG 2025
... competitive and those that are solely domestic need to become more cost effective. "Reducing barriers for people to move to better jobs can also boost productivity by better matching skills to jobs," Barker said. "To enable this, regulations should be ...

Confident with a capital C

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 29 MAR 2017
... by 18.3% from a year earlier; the S&P/Case-Shiller House price index increased by 5.7% in the year to January - and better jobs and higher income prospects have lifted American consumers' moods. On jobs, those saying that jobs are "hard to get" declined ...

Market to open higher

AAP  |  WEDNESDAY, 17 JUN 2015
... movements are due to trader "emotion and sentiment and positioning ahead of the Fed announcement" on Wednesday, he said. Better jobs and retail sales data have altered the outlook for US monetary policy after a weak first quarter. Although the Fed is ...

Being smart doesn't guarantee wealth

ALEX DUNNIN  |  THURSDAY, 19 JUL 2007
Smart people have better jobs, make more money, save more, invest more and end up richer than dumb people? Not quite, according to a report. An intriguing study from the US has confirmed what many of us probably knew but wouldn't openly admit: being ...

OECD urges governments to improve job opportunities to the marginalised

... disabilities and the low-skilled. In the latest OECD Employment Outlook report, the organization argued that without more and better jobs for such groups who are underrepresented in the workforce, the prospects for economic growth in many countries will ...
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