31 Dec 2024
BRICS Pay as a challenge to SWIFT network
It’s just an idea for now – but enough to worry the Western world about an alternative international payment system.
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20 Dec 2024
A US dollar deal? Explaining a lack of enthusiasm for a Plaza Accord redux
A few lessons from economic history for a start. -
17 Dec 2024
Donald Trump and the “crypto capital of the planet”
Bitter experience shows a “global” crisis can result from failures of domestic governance and regulatory oversight in the United States. -
12 Dec 2024
US tariffs are nothing new – history should be our guide
With a change of guard in the White House, Australia could take its lead from Chifley’s art of the deal. -
11 Dec 2024
The new energy shock: Complacency in oil markets could ignite a global crisis
The cascading effects of even minor disruptions are too often ignored. It’s time to reassess the risk. -
10 Dec 2024
China’s EV manufacturing and Australia’s connected vehicles conundrum
Canberra faces complicated trade-offs between competing domestic and foreign policy objectives. -
29 Nov 2024
Australia’s banking on the Pacific
Making money in the region is not easy. But links to international finance are essential. -
29 Nov 2024
Top jobs must go to the best candidates. International financial institutions should be no different
The appointment of a new Asian Development Bank president highlights the need for a shift to competitive and transparent selection of senior management everywhere. -
26 Nov 2024
Balancing the books on Australian statecraft
It should be easier to judge the budget against the warnings of challenging times. -
25 Nov 2024
Critical minerals and the case for human rights in the just transition
Poor labour standards uncovered in the nickel industry should serve as a warning not to repeat past industrial mistakes. -
15 Nov 2024
Economics as history: Assessing the 2024 Nobel Prize
Rich country or poor country? Why a chain of causation proposed by this year’s winners is so controversial. -
17 Oct 2024
Economic diplomacy: After the storm comes the reconstruction
From a new measure of business competitiveness to revamped supply chains, global agencies are slowly adjusting to post-pandemic life. -
11 Oct 2024
The US wakes up to China’s latest threat – big ships
Hardly a day goes by that Chinese shipyards don’t book another fat contract for a commercial vessel. -
7 Oct 2024
Unhealthy competition in green technology
Trade with China in green technology is essential if the world is to meet its 2050 emission reduction goals. Why is this so hard to do? -
2 Oct 2024
Trumpian economic nationalism is not what the world or America needs
Donald Trump’s policies are a recipe for higher global inflation, greater fragmentation, and more inequality. -
8 Aug 2024
Economic diplomacy: Banking on the Pacific
Rebuilding regional banking is unlikely to pay dividends without an underlying business revival. -
6 Aug 2024
Australian CEOs face a wave of geopolitical risks
The fences of trade restrictions are growing higher and the yards of national industry policies larger. -
30 Jul 2024
Made in the USA: America’s gambit to reclaim industrial primacy
Dominance in next-generation industry relies on people and partnerships to short-circuit China’s leading edge. -
8 Jul 2024
Political upheaval in Vietnam is holding its economy back
Officials have become extremely cautious about signing off on public investment decisions – and foreign investors are taking note. -
5 Jul 2024
Why Australia needs more flights to Latin America
Australia’s civil aviation sector needs to be an effective tool for connection and diplomacy in signalling political interests. -
3 Jul 2024
India’s plan for a world without cash
Every day, almost half the globe’s digital transactions take place in India. The country is primed to own the domain. -
27 Jun 2024
Economic diplomacy: Ringfencing the Lucky Country
Some key Australian economic figures are embracing the new economics of national resilience in distinctive ways. -
26 Jun 2024
Hope for gold: The value in the Olympics
An economic case is hard to make. Reputational risks abound. Yet hosts want the Games, and that’s no bad thing. -
11 Jun 2024
China’s contributions are a blind spot in global climate finance
Accounting for money from China and other non-traditional donors is vital to set a meaningful global target to assist developing countries. -
5 Jun 2024
The China alibi
A geopolitical contest between the United States and China should not stop Australians assessing their own economic interests. -
31 May 2024
Southeast Asia after the shocks: Economic growth, but not as we know it
New Lowy Institute research shows the pandemic and Ukraine war have taken a toll, while the benefits from supply chains shifting out of China have so far been limited. -
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20 May 2024
The macroeconomic limit of American exceptionalism
There are hard rules to the forces driving the current account deficit, no matter how it is calculated. -
26 Apr 2024
Waqf-based forests: Harnessing Islamic philanthropy for climate financing in Indonesia
Faith has long been devoted to salving social ills – addressing environmental challenges is the next step. -
18 Apr 2024
Economic diplomacy: Made in Australia with new energy
The government wants to manufacture an election winning industry policy that also sounds tough on various foreign partners. -
9 Apr 2024
Daniel Kahneman: A psychologist who shaped economics, and the world
He left an indelible mark on the understanding of human behaviour in economic contexts and beyond. -
3 Apr 2024
If industrial policy is the new candy house, developing countries need to gain more than just the bread crumbs
Local efforts to reshape national economies must account for the international implications. -
20 Mar 2024
China’s dominance over critical minerals poses an unacceptable risk
The present market structure gives Beijing a whip hand – and we’ve already seen the consequences. -
15 Mar 2024
Shipping and the great shrinking waterways
With droughts a more regular feature due to climate change, the globe needs a big rethink on supply chains. -
7 Mar 2024
Central bank digital currencies: Is there a blueprint for success?
Countries carry different motives to change from the cash economy. But privacy and security concerns remain. -
1 Mar 2024
The parts within the whole: Understanding Southeast Asia’s economies
The diversity within the region is as important to understand as the ways ASEAN seeks to build consensus. -
29 Feb 2024
A new global climate finance goal must balance need with political reality
Support from rich countries to poor ones is at the heart of the Paris Agreement – still the question remains how much? -
18 Jan 2024
Drought and war hit the choke points
Trade through the Panama and Suez canals is slowing. Inevitably, costs are passed on. -
16 Jan 2024
Global economic prospects are the worst in decades but investing in the future could be the answer
The World Bank reports on why global growth and poverty reduction are slowing but points to investment as a way forward. -
14 Dec 2023
Not doom, but get used to a world economy with extended gloom
The drivers of global economic growth have changed markedly from the experience over the past 30-40 years. -
7 Dec 2023
Economic diplomacy: Pulling the right global value chain
Australia is now a big exporter of “bottleneck products” in a deglobalising world, just as it tries to rebuild manufacturing. -
29 Nov 2023
Economic statecraft with American characteristics
The United States keeps pitching Asia regional deals for economic arrangements that are not politically viable at home. -
27 Nov 2023
Rise of the Redback
The US dollar remain the dominant currency. But China – and others – are driving the yuan as an alternative. -
23 Nov 2023
Economic diplomacy: Hits and misses for Project Diversify
India and Vietnam are the rising new trade partners as business cools on China amid new American protectionism. -
6 Nov 2023
Fighting risk in everything, everywhere, all at once
Most government institutions are not designed to consider more than their portfolio of interests – and that doesn’t work in a more complex world. -
18 Oct 2023
Australia must play the geoeconomics game, or risk being side-lined
The world is moving away from a rules-based order and towards power politics. Is Canberra ready? -
11 Oct 2023
The Fix: “Get your kicks…”
Your weekly Interpreter feature to rake up resources and reads you might otherwise miss. -
21 Sep 2023
China does not need currency manipulation to boost its exports
A weak economy will itself increase China’s export competitiveness. -
19 Sep 2023
The future of gig work
The new world of on-call, contract and temporary work is only sustainable if it is fair and safe for those who power it. -
13 Sep 2023
The crucial role for the Green Climate Fund – and why Australia should contribute
It’s vital to international climate solidarity and Australia rejoining is key to unlocking more global funding for the Pacific.