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Countries have used recent tax reforms to lower taxes on businesses and individuals, with a view to boosting investment, consumption and labour market participation, continuing… Read More ›

Deadline: Sunday 30 September 2018. The Women in Social and Economic Research (WiSER) at Curtin University in Perth have a scholarship available for a PhD… Read More ›

The IPPR Commission on Economic Justice has recently released a discussion paper, The Invisible Land, examining the hidden force driving the UK’s unequal economy and… Read More ›

The work on BEPS Action 14, the OECD has announced, continues with the publication of the fourth round of stage 1 peer review reports. Each… Read More ›

James Mirrlees, a Scottish economist known for his pioneering work in optimal tax theory and a winner of the 1996 Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic… Read More ›

This month, the Economic Society of Australia’s National Economic Panel (NEP) faced two propositions relating to the sugar tax; a topical issue given that Australia is facing an… Read More ›

Commission research paper: Rising inequality? A stocktake of the evidence. A self-initiated Productivity Commission report on inequality shows that the past 27 years of sustained… Read More ›

A plan has been put forward by the National Older Women’s Housing and Homelessness Working Group, which focuses on increasing housing and financial security for… Read More ›

On 21 June 2018, the Senate referred the Social Services Legislation Amendment (Cashless Debit Card Trial Expansion) Bill 2018 to the Senate Community Affairs Legislation… Read More ›

The Department of the Prime Minister and Cabinet has recently published the Australian Government response to the 2016 Senate Economics References Committee Report ‘A husband… Read More ›