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Productivity

How can Australia develop a productive and resilient economy through innovation, greater industrial capacity and upskilling?

    Digital (t)winning: the potential for AI as a public policy design tool

    While the political and policy focus has rightly been on regulating artificial intelligence, we also need to plan now to harness AI’s power as a policymaking tool – especially, its capacity to model outcomes in complex systems.

    José-Miguel Bello y Villarino

  • Aged care workforce shortages require action from the Jobs Summit & resourcing for high quality care

    Nelson Ma, David Brown

  • Young people must be at the centre of the government’s jobs and skills plan

    Travers McLeod

  • “Freedom within a framework” – how Australia’s universities can make a full economic contribution

    Libby Hackett

More articles

  • Australia’s innovation future: an agenda to transform our economy

    While fiscal stimulus applied during the COVID-19 crisis has boosted employment, the much bigger challenge remains productivity and wage stagnation. This will require an ambitious national reform agenda to transform Australian industry.

    Roy Green

  • New research shows that by considering the broader financial benefits of domestic manufacturing, building trains locally can be a fiscally smart decision.

    Is there a financial rationale for building trains locally?

    New research shows that by taking into account the broader financial benefits of domestic manufacturing, building key transport infrastructure locally can be the fiscally smart decision.

    Christopher Day

  • Making capital inclusive for all women

    Making capital inclusive for all women

    We should reimagine how capital markets can better back women entrepreneurs, especially those at society’s margins, and boost women’s economic security more broadly. The design of a new venture capital fund announced by the NSW Government can demonstrate what’s possible.

    Vafa Ghazavi