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3 weeks ago | 
thestandard.org.nz | Michael Reddell |David Slack |Blake Johnson |David Uren
Daily review 14/05/2025 Written By: notices and features - Date published: 5:30 pm, May 14th, 2025 - No comments Categories: Daily review - Tags: Daily review is also your post. This provides Standardistas the opportunity to review events of the day. The usual rules of good behaviour apply (see the Policy). Don’t forget to be kind to each other … Related Posts
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Dec 3, 2024 | 
openforum.com.au | David Uren
Global migration flows have risen to record levels since the pandemic, driven by economic opportunity and conflict, and are facing a widespread policy backlash. A record 6.5 million people made new homes in advanced nations last year, according to the newly released Migration Outlook of the Organisation for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD). Migration flows into advanced countries last year were 28 percent higher than in 2019, before the Covid-19 pandemic.
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Nov 10, 2024 | 
aspistrategist.org.au | David Uren
Australia risks being caught in no man’s land as the world divides into rival economic blocs in what the International Monetary Fund describes as a new cold war. Trade has been falling everywhere since Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, but it has been falling twice as fast between the blocs of nations centred on the United States and China as it has between nations within those blocs.
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Oct 29, 2024 | 
aspistrategist.org.au | David Uren
China’s Belt and Road Initiative (BRI) for investment abroad has been revamped with a greater focus on risk management and governance, and it is on the cusp of winning important new members. Brazil is expected to announce it will join the program when China’s President Xi Jinping makes a state visit to the country following a G20 summit in Rio de Janeiro in late November. Colombian officials, meanwhile, have confirmed their government’s intent to join.
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Oct 15, 2024 | 
aspistrategist.org.au | David Uren
It is intrinsic to warfare that economic assets are destroyed, but conflicts usually don’t generate economic devastation on the scale inflicted in Gaza. The value of economic activity in Gaza in the first quarter of 2024 was 86 percent below pre-war levels, with studies from both the World Bank and the United Nations Commission on Trade and Development describing its economic collapse.
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Sep 26, 2024 | 
aspistrategist.org.au | David Uren
United States presidential candidate Donald Trump sees the continued dominance of the US dollar in international transactions as a matter of national security. ‘If we lost the dollar as the world currency, I think that would be the equivalent of losing a war,’ he told The Economic Club of New York earlier this month. Trump has promised to impose 100 percent tariffs on imports from countries moving away from using the US dollar in their international transactions.
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Sep 8, 2024 | 
openforum.com.au | David Uren
AWorld Bank study shows that while the PNG economy achieved rapid, resource-driven growth from 2009 to 2017, multiple measures show levels of poverty remained the same and are among the worst in the world. The study’s findings highlight the failure of the PNG state to provide basic services to a large share of its population, despite both the flow of resource-derived taxation and rising levels of foreign aid.
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Sep 5, 2024 | 
aspistrategist.org.au | David Uren
The people of Papua New Guinea have derived no measurable benefit from the resource boom, unlike the populations of all other resource-rich nations. A World Bank study shows that while the PNG economy achieved rapid, resource-driven growth from 2009 to 2017, multiple measures show levels of poverty remained the same and are among the worst in the world.
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Aug 26, 2024 | 
aspistrategist.org.au | David Uren
Australia’s 20-year-long economic party, funded by China, may be drawing to a close, with consequences for federal and state budgets, superannuation returns and living standards generally. The iron ore price is the most obvious pointer to China’s declining demand for Australia’s raw materials: it has come down from an extraordinary peak of US$144 a tonne at the beginning of January to a spot price of US$92 this month, and the fall is expected to continue.
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Jul 24, 2024 | 
homelandsecuritynewswire.com | David Uren
CRITICAL MINERALSNot Just Beijing’s Doing: Market Factors Are Also Hitting Rare Earths PricesPublished 24 July 2024Have depressed rare earths prices been engineered by the Chinese state to snuff out non-Chinese rivals before they get going? Or do they simply reflect a weak market, with demand rising more slowly than was expected by the promotors of a slew of new projects? Have depressed rare earths prices been engineered by the Chinese state to snuff out non-Chinese rivals before they get going?
