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Social Security and Welfare Spending in Australia: Assessing Long-Term Trends Part 2

How many people receive payments? Part 1 in this series looked at how much is spent on social security in Australia and how spending has… Read More ›

Social Security and Welfare Spending in Australia: Assessing Long-Term Trends Part 1

For some time, the largest single component of Commonwealth Government spending in Australia has been “Social Security and Welfare”, estimated at 35.3 per cent of… Read More ›

Complexity and Inequality in Fiscal Systems: A Conversation Between Vito Tanzi, Stephen Howes, Roger Bradbury, Peter Whiteford and Miranda Stewart

This is an edited extract of a Crawford School event with Professor Vito Tanzi, former Director of the IMF Fiscal Affairs Department. The event was… Read More ›

The Welfare Effects of a Partial Tariff Reduction under Domestic Distortion in Japan

Japan is one of the world’s largest agro-food importing countries and provides significant support to its producers. According to the OECD Agricultural support (indicator), the… Read More ›

Means Testing Social Security: Income Versus Wealth

The U.S. Social Security System is a defined benefit retirement system that uses a progressive formula to calculate own benefits based on past indexed covered… Read More ›