Poll 69
'Skills, competition, infrastructure': top economists tell Chalmers what belongs in his productivity package. Top economists want Treasurer Jim Chalmers to spend his 12 May Budget fixing the supply side of the Australian economy.
Responses (25)
PAFTAD is a private academic conference series that promotes policy-oriented academic research on key economic, trade, and development policy issues in the Asia-Pacific region. The 43rd PAFTAD Conference will be held in Hanoi, Vietnam from 9 to 11 November 2026.
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ACE 2026 will be held in Canberra, ACT from 7-10 July 2026 at University of Canberra and will cover a full range of topical economic issues. It is targeted at economists in academe, government and business and will cover Climate change and environmental externalities; Challenges in social policy; How government can best implement policies in an environment of declining trust and misinformation; and Contemporary economic issues such as raising productivity and tax reform. The conference will feature plenary sessions with international speakers and concurrent sessions with domestic presenters.
Poll 68
Australia's top economists overwhelmingly believe there’s no better way to boost productivity than to boost skills. Offered a choice of seven measures identified by the Economic Society of Australia as candidates for achieving the Treasurer’s aim of boosting Australia’s historically low rate of productivity growth, 26 of the 45 economists polled picked boosting skills and workforce capability, almost twice as many as picked the next most-popular option: promoting innovation and research and development.
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A number of prestigious awards were bestowed upon worthy economists at ACE2025 which held in Sydney during July.
ACE 2025 was held in Sydney from 6-9 July 2025. Economics is essential to many of the pressing issues of our time including climate and the energy transition, aging population, inequality, geoeconomic competition, resource management and circular economy, healthcare, water and food security, poverty employment and livelihoods. It is with this in mind that Australian Conference of Economists (ACE) 2025 explored Economics for a Changing World, illustrating the practical and solution focused contribution of economics to these challenges. An acceleration in the availability, use and scale of data and experimental techniques has transformed our approach to these challenges.