‘Watch while I make the economy disappear!’
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Degrowthers advocate cutting investment as a way to reduce use of precious resources, which is exactly what the UK government has been doing for the last 40 years.
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A levy on electronic transactions in Ghana makes sense if the government gets the architecture for it right
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Without academic freedom and rule of law it’s hard to see how China’s economy can continue to grow so fast.
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To drive living standards upward we need new technologies to relentlessly improve productivity.
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The notion of a trade-off between health measures and the economy is not supported by data from 45 countries.
Both Australia’s trend and seasonally adjusted GDP per capita growth rates have dipped below zero.
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The treasurer says 2018 was a year of two halves, but there were signs of a downturn well before mid year.
Some countries in Africa are well placed to follow the path of development pioneered by a number of Asian countries.
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It’s important to interrogate the key factors that pushed countries from Third World to First World status in the 20th century. Asia’s experiences hold many lessons for Africa.
Chris Bowen at the Treasurers’ Debate with Scott Morrison.
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Was Shadow Treasurer Chris Bowen right to say that the Coalition presided over the most sustained fall in our living standards since records began?