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There’s a long list of pre-announcements, but it remains to be seen how much turns out to be smoke and mirrors.
Australia’s living standards have remained remarkably stable compared to those of other countries. Losing access to China wouldn’t change that much.
A new Grattan Institute study finds that for the first time in a long time, young Australians are no better off than those who came before, and are likely to do worse.
Populism is on the rise in countries where inequality has been fairly stable over time, as well as countries where inequality has grown.
The Conversation’s distinguished panel predicts unusually weak growth, dismal spending, no improvement in either unemployment or wage growth, and an increased chance of recession.
But the ALP has not put a figure on the amount it believes would be appropriate.
The Conversation has assembled a forecasting team of 19 academic economists from 12 universities across six states. Together, they assign a 25% probability to a recession within two years.
The standards we use today were designed to help avoid the overcrowded housing that blighted cities in the past. But severe overcrowding is again on the rise, so what needs to be done?
The latest data for UK living standards shows how they have fallen for all, except the wealthiest members of society.
The SNP’s Nicola Sturgeon says austerity has held the economy back. Is she right?
A defence that argues that ‘it depends on how you measure it’ does not wash.
Labour says we’re worse off, but the Tories say living standards are on the rise - who’s right?
Much of the current political turmoil in Australia can be traced to Bill Clinton’s famous aphorism: “it’s the economy stupid” – in particular, the plunge in world commodity prices over the past few years…
The focus of the recently concluded G20 summit was economic growth. The final communiqué begins: “Raising global growth to deliver better living standards and quality jobs for people across the world is…
Last week, the Organisation for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD) in a preliminary version of its 2012 Economic Outlook lowered its growth forecasts for Australia from 3.7% to 3.0% in 2013. This…
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Visiting Fellow, Crawford School of Public Policy, Australian National University
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Peter Whiteford is a Friend of The Conversation.
Professor, Crawford School of Public Policy, Australian National University
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Professor, School of Economics, The University of Queensland
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Professor of Economics and National Senior Teaching Fellow, Griffith University
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Professorial Fellow, University of Canberra
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Senior Lecturer in Economics, University of Sheffield
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Deputy Program Director, Grattan Institute
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Professor of Economics and Political Economy, University of Leeds
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Professor of Economics, and Fellow of Merton College, University of Oxford
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Professor Emeritus of Economics, SOAS, University of London
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Professor, UCL
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Chief executive officer, Grattan Institute
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Professor of Social Policy, Loughborough University
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Professorial Research Fellow in Social Justice, University of Bristol
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Professor of Social Epidemiology, Principal Research Fellow in Social Epidemiology and Director of the Centre for Research Excellence in Healthy Housing in Melbourne School of Population and Global Health, The University of Melbourne
