International Economy
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Lowy Institute Papers
Second thoughts on globalisation
Globalisation is one of the key forces shaping the global economy. It is also a policy choice.Mark Thirlwell
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Analyses
Sensible climate policy
The release of the report by the Prime Ministerial Task Group on Emissions Trading has received a lot of attention. The broad philosophy of that report is based on the McKibbin…
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Analyses
Two issues in carbon pricing: timing and competitiveness
This Working Paper in International Economics by David Pearce and Warwick McKibbin explores two issues that have emerged in recent policy discussions on the need for price signals…
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Policy Briefs
New rules for a new 'Great Game'
In this 2006 paper, Anthony Bubalo and Mark Thirlwell look at how energy insecurity, driven by high demand and uncertainty over supply, is fuelling both an intensification of…
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Lowy Institute Papers
Quiet boom
After fifteen years of uninterrupted growth, Australia's quiet economic boom shows no signs of ending. John Edwards
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Analyses
After Doha: II. Is globalisation history?
Reflecting on the repeated failure of the Doha Round of international trade negotiations, this paper takes a look back at the stresses and strains that afflicted an earlier…
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Analyses
Domestic investment and external imbalances in East Asia
Since the 1997-98 Asian crisis, the investment decline in East Asia, outside of China, combined with the falling in public and private savings in the United States, has…
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Analyses
After Doha: I. The search for Plan B
In a Lowy Institute Analysis, Mark Thirlwell argues that while the suspension of negotiations in late July may or may not mark the end of the Doha Round, it will almost certainly…
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Analyses
Roaring tiger or lumbering elephant?
After years of economic underperformance, the Indian economic model has been transformed, and with it, India's growth performance. So much so that the last two years have brought…
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Analyses
A credible foundation for long term international cooperation on climate change
In this Working Paper in International Economics, the Lowy Institute's Professor Warwick McKibbin and Peter Wilcoxen write that to succeed in reducing carbon dioxide emissions, a…