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The Melbourne Institute has been running a weekly survey, Taking the Pulse of the Nation, to track the economic and social wellbeing of Australians living… Read More ›

Understanding the rising trend in female labour force participation, TTPI Working Paper 5/2020 By Nicolas Herault & Guyonne Kalb (University of Melbourne) Abstract: Female labour… Read More ›

The Initial Impacts of COVID-19 on the Self-Employed By Professor Nicholas Biddle, Ben Edwards, Professor Matthew Gray and Kate Sollis (ANU Centre for Social Research… Read More ›

Digitalisation Challenges and Opportunities for Subnational Governments, OECD Working Paper on Fiscal Federalism No. 31 By Luiz de Mello & Teresa Ter-Minassian The world economy… Read More ›

Seasonally adjusted employment fell by 594,300 people between March and April, according to the Australian Bureau of Statistics (ABS). Large changes were seen across all… Read More ›

The New Zealand Government unveiled its Budget 2020 today as the country is gradually coming out of its coronavirus lockdown. Key points include: NZ$50 billion… Read More ›

On Tuesday 14 May 2020, Treasurer Josh Frydenberg delivered a ministerial statement on the economy to Parliament in lieu of the delayed 2020-21 federal budget.… Read More ›

Hardship, distress, and resilience: The initial impacts of COVID-19 in Australia By Professor Nicholas Biddle, Associate Professor Ben Edwards, Professor Matthew Gray & Kate Sollis… Read More ›

The Australian Parliamentary Budget Office (PBO) has launched a monthly publication designed to track the effect of COVID-19 and the associated policy response on the… Read More ›

Tax revenues in Latin America and the Caribbean (LAC) increased to 23.1% of GDP on average in 2018, according to the new edition of Revenue… Read More ›