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Tim Harcourt is a professional economist specialising in international trade and labour economic issues in the Asia Pacific region and in the emerging economies. Tim's passion is Australia's engagement with the global economy and the challenges and opportunities it offers business and the Australian community as a whole.

Tim has broad experience in public policy and in communicating international economic issues widely in the community. He has held senior roles in both the public sector and private sector in Australia and internationally and in the community and education sectors. In Australia he has worked for the Reserve Bank of Australia, Fair Work Australia, the Australian Council of Trade Unions (ACTU and the Australian Trade Commission (Austrade).

Publication

The Airport EconomistAustralian exporters conquering global markets
Beyond Our ShoresEssays on Australia and the Global Economy By Tim Harcourt, Chief Economist, Australian Trade Commission
Going The DistanceEssays on Australia and the Global Economy: 2004-2008 By Tim Harcourt, Chief Economist, Australian Trade Commission

Entries from March 25th, 2012

The Airport Economist goes to Rio

March 25th, 2012 · No Comments · Other Posts

Reporting from Rio de Janeiro, Brazil Brazilian Airports at the moment are jam packed. Why is this so? To an airport economist the underlying reasons must always be economic and in this case thankfully they are. Basically, in the new Brazil, the upper class more wealthy Brazilians are flying north to Miami to shop (even […]

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Japan goes gaga for Gillard as Australia shows solidarity one year on.

March 13th, 2012 · No Comments · Other Posts

A year on from the after the earth quake and tsunami natural disasters that engulfed Japan it is important to recall that two prominent foreigners went to Japan soon after to show solidarity. Global pop sensation Lady gaga went to Japan for 10 days. Say what you like about Lady gaga and the current mass […]

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At the chalk face – Brazil and Australia united in education

March 8th, 2012 · No Comments · Other Posts

When I went to the University of Adelaide, I received a stroke of luck. Under the Colombo plan which enabled South East Asian students to get scholarships to Australian Universities, the grand old man of Singapore, Lee Kuan Yew, sent a number of very bright Singaporean students, who were meant to go to Oxford to […]

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The Airport Economist

March 8th, 2012 · No Comments · Publications

Australian exporters conquering global markets Did you know that Australia is helping Singapore ‘be creative’ to address its imbalance of ballet dancers to engineers and that there is a Transylvanian Cricket Club full of Aussies in Romania? Or that Israeli youngsters are crazy for Tim Tams and the French are buying Billabong board shorts in […]

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Going The Distance

March 8th, 2012 · No Comments · Publications

Essays on Australia and the Global Economy: 2004-2008 By Tim Harcourt, Chief Economist, Australian Trade Commission In 2005 I published a book titled Beyond Our Shores: Essays on Australia and the Global Economy: 1999-2004. Beyond Our Shores covered all the major economic issues affecting Australian trade from the Dot.com craze and crash to September 11, SARS […]

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Beyond Our Shores

March 8th, 2012 · No Comments · Publications

Essays on Australia and the Global Economy By Tim Harcourt, Chief Economist, Australian Trade Commission I have written a series of essays since 1999 on the amazing events witnessed, and in some cases experienced, and their effect on Australian exporters. The essays have been brought together in this book and arranged by topic – ‘Globalisation […]

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How to win the next election: The Airport Economist’s guide to the electorate

March 8th, 2012 · No Comments · Other Posts

The Labor leadership tussle is focussing the minds of local political pundits but at the end of the day, whoever leads the Australian Labor Party (ALP) and the current Government will have to woo the Australian electorate at large come Election Day due in 2013 or maybe even this year. Over coming months you will […]

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