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Issues Papers Now Available on SACES Website
The Centre periodically prepares Issues Papers which provide commentary on topical economic issues affecting South Australia and Australia, including relevant global economic developments. The list of available Issues Papers on the SACES website have now been updated (note that latest Issues Papers are reserved for Corporate Members).
Recent Issues Papers have focused on the topics of […]
The Fine State of South Australia
The SA Centre for Economic Studies December 2013 Economic Briefing Report includes a focus article – The Fine State of South Australia – which considers whether the improvement in road fatality and serious injury statistics is simply the result of detection technology and associated fines. Due to media and community interest, the full article has […]
Report on the Impact of Mining and Resource Development
The SA Centre for Economic Studies was commissioned by the Local Government Associaton of South Australia to consider the implications for local government associated with future mining developments on the Eyre Peninsula. The principle objective of the report was to provide information to councils to “help them determine future population patterns” and settlement patterns and […]
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Regional Fact Sheets
The Centre recently developed regional fact sheets for the 7 non-metropolitan Regional Development Australia regions in South Australia. The fact sheets provide infomation on the economic, social and demographic characteristics of the regions. The fact sheets are designed to be a policy tool to assist local government, RDAs and other stakeholders with planning and research, […]
Media Releases – June 2012 Economic Briefing
The SA Centre for Economic Studies today released its June 2012 Economic Briefing Report which provides an assessment of the recent performance of the South Australian economy. The report also contains a number of ‘Focus Articles’ which provide a closer look at particular economic issues of relevance to the South Australian economy.
Four media releases which […]
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December 2011 Economic Briefing
The global economy has experienced a slowdown in 2011 with the growing soverign debt crisis in Europe, a slower than anticipated recovery in the United States economy, the Great East Japan Earthquake and political unrest in some oil-producing countries. The implications of these developments for the Australian and South Australian economies together with other domestic […]
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Issues Paper – Assisting Regions and Communities to Cope With Structural Change
A new Economic Issues paper – Assisting Regions and Communities to Cope with Structural Change: Context, Objectives, Principles and Good Practice – was recently distributed to Corporate Members.
This paper is the final of three papers on regional issues with earlier papers exploring first, Re-Thinking the Approach to Regional Development in South Australia (EIP No. 28) […]
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Issues Paper – The Economic Consequences of the Euro
In this paper Dr Colin Rogers considers the current economic crisis in Greece and argues that the governance structure of the Euro is exacerbating the crisis with the potential to turn what is a liquidity crisis (following the flight of private capital) into a solvency crisis. The inability to use state-backed money requires the European […]
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The importance of language, literacy and numeracy skills from an economic, social, labour market, government and citizenship perspective
The Centre’s Executive Director, Assoc Professor Michael O’Neil, presented this paper to the Language, Literacy and Numeracy Program (LLNP) National Provider Forum, Melbourne (8-9 June).
Given the findings of the ABS/OECD international survey on language, literacy and numeracy – in South Australia some 480,000 adults of working age have prose literacy […]
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Problem gamblers and the role of the financial sector
The Department of Families, Housing, Community Services and Indigenous Affairs recently published an Occasional Paper prepared by the SA Centre for Economic Studies on problem gamblers and the role of the financial sector.
The focus of the paper is to ascertain the behaviour of problem gamblers in Australia with regards to accessing funds, particularly from joint […]
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