When I went to the University of Adelaide, I received a stroke of luck. Under the Colombo plan, which enabled south-east Asian students 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 study nuclear physics, […]
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From Rio to Freo – The Airport Economists hits the samba trail in Brazil
April 11th, 2012 · No Comments · Publications
Out of Africa…..and back in.
April 1st, 2012 · No Comments · Publications
Reporting from Cape Town, South Africa When South Africa emerged from the apartheid era in the mid-1990s it was a common plea for the world not to forget Africa simply because the apartheid battle had been seen to be won. Back then, “not forgetting Africa” had an international aid connotation, strongly associated with events such […]
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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 […]
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 […]
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 […]