The ride-hailing app Go-jek is part of Indonesia’s growing creative economy.
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Creative industries have the potential to provide much needed jobs in Indonesia. But, without a law on creative economy, industries are being subjected to rigid sectoral regulations.
The problem of publication bias in academic journals is being tackled.
Editors of ten authoritative workplace journals amend their publishing criteria to address publication bias.
China’s sharemarket troubles hang over Western bourses.
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Market “hiccups” are painful for western markets, but a good sign of the internationalisation of Renminbi.
The influx of refugees into Europe has put pressure on the structures of the eurozone itself.
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Troubles in the eurozone can be viewed as a continuing fallout to the 2008 global crisis.
Research reveals that strengthening democratic processes within unions helps defeat corruption.
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Dyson Heydon’s recommendations for union reform represent a steamroller approach to industrial democracy.
Martin Shkreli had victims long before he turned his hand to pharmaceuticals.
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The lack of transparency and accountability found in the hedge fund world is increasingly finding a home in the pharmaceutical sector, where more people care.
Australia’s current tax system favours excessive spending on homes.
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There is an alternative tax approach that would make for a more just society.
Dick Smith’s future hangs in the balance.
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There are lessons to be learned from the failure of Dick Smith but it’s not necessarily an indicator of a trend for 2016.
Heavy discounting by retailer Dick Smith was not enough to turn the company’s fortunes around.
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As creditors consider the fallout from the demise of Dick Smith, the private equity firm that floated it has already counted its profits.
Difficult days: a trader checks her phone on the trading floor at the Shanghai Stock Exchange.
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The best way to stabilise China’s volatile stock market is to establish and broaden linkages with other stock markets.
Problem solver.
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Humour doesn’t just help people deal with tension in the workplace, it can also help them work through complex problems.
Even in the midst of the economic downturn Keating was keen to defend the surplus.
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The 1990s obsession with the current account looks silly with hindsight, perhaps akin to our current one with fiscal deficits and surpluses.
Volkswagen Chief Executive Martin Winterkorn resigned after the company was caught deliberately cheating on emissions tests.
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There were many examples of ethics failures in 2015. So what’s missing from company leaders?
It went woozy in the middle but it ended ok.
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The key events that made the business community laugh, cheer and despair in 2015.
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Challenging, inspiring and funny: a handful of our economics writers share the favourite books they read this year.
Foreign investment in housing: murky.
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There’s no accurate data on foreign investment in Australian real estate, but what we do have suggests it’s only partly to blame for rising house prices.
A release of tax data should set the scene for greater transparency.
AAP/Lukas Coch
The drop of tax data showing hundreds of major companies did not pay tax needs parsing; but there must be crackdown on aggressive tax planning.
Philip Morris tried to game the system. It lost.
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Australia’s plain packaging win over Philip Morris will kill the ISDS bogeyman.
That big pile of presents under the Christmas tree just seems right.
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Don’t feel bad if you can’t resist buying up at Christmas.
Apple Pay launched in the US in 2014, but has yet to gain traction in Australia.
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Australians love to ‘tap and go’ for payments, but doing it with a mobile phone is being complicated by our card fee system.
Concern about the level of transparency in the prison sector remains.
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A legal wall protects private prisons from operational scrutiny.
Green bonds have been largely confined to transport and energy projects.
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Green bonds haven’t yet reached critical mass, but that could soon change as big business gets on board.
Woolworths is being pursued by the corporate regulator for its treatment of smaller suppliers.
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Unconscionable conduct by (mainly big) business has been notoriously tricky to prove. Could a change in legal wording help?
We can expect low rates for a long time.
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Evidence suggests the global neutral interest rate may settle at below 1%, penalising savers and rewarding risk takers.
Shadow Assistant Treasurer Andrew Leigh.
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Michelle Grattan discusses the mid-year economic and fiscal outlook with Shadow Assistant Treasurer Andrew Leigh.