SAUL ESLAKE

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SAUL ESLAKE

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Yearly Archives: 2016


The 2016 TCCI Tasmania Report

Tasmania | 14th December 2016

Report and presentation on the Tasmanian economy prepared for the Tasmanian Chamber of Commerce and Industry, and launched at presentations in Hobart, Launceston and Burnie on 14th December 2016. The Report Presentation Slides


Five Potential Impediments to Improving Australia’s Productivity Performance

Productivity | 13th December 2016

Presentation to a conference hosted by the Productivity Commission at its offices in Canberra, 13th December 2016


‘Manufacturing fetishism’ and the gender stereotyping of jobs

News | 30th November 2016

Ben Potter and Patrick Durkin | The Australian Financial Review | 30th November 2016 Report in the Australian Financial Review of 30th November 2016 of my comments at a Melbourne Economic Forum, querying the popular notion that there is something inherently more worthy about jobs in manufacturing than other types of jobs, and arguing that […]


Financial Inclusion, Women and the Economy

Australian Society and Politics | 25th November 2016

Address to Good Shepherd Micro-Finance’s ‘Resilient Women’ Summit, 25th November 2016


The Importance of productivity as a driver of the Victorian economy

Productivity, The Australian Economy | 24th November 2016

Presentation to Members of Victoria’s Parliament, Melbourne, 25th November 2016


A Country Executive Guide to the Australian and New Zealand Economies

The Australian Economy | 15th November 2016

Webinar presentation hosted by the CEO Forum Group for executives of multi-national companies with a presence in Australia and New Zealand, on 15th November 2016


Market reaction to Donald Trump’s apparent victory in US Presidential election

The Global Economy | 9th November 2016

Saul Eslake | The Conversation | 9th November 2016 An assessment published on The Conversation, 9th November 2016. Donald Trump has emerged as the winner in the US Presidential election, but even before the result was clear the prospect came as a profound shock to financial markets. As I wrote last month, financial markets had […]


Tasmania: State of Opportunity

Tasmania | 8th November 2016

Presentation to an event for University of Tasmania Alumni in Canberra, 8th November 2016


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Sheryle Bagwell, recently retired Senior Business Correspondent (and sometime Executive Producer),
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Dr Joe Flood, Adjunct Fellow, RMIT University, Pandemicia


“Thank you very much for your excellent presentation for the Economic Society today. It is always a great pleasure to hear your eloquent, up-to-date and comprehensive talks.”

Andrew Trembath, economist, Victorian and Australian Government agencies


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TESTIMONIALS

What Others Say


“You are one of the best at what you do in the world”
Gail Fosler, Chief Economist, The Conference Board, New York, December 2002

“I have never known an economist to have such a knowledge of world economic facts and to be able to bring to bear so much information in answering a question without notice”
Charles Goode, Chairman, ANZ Bank, July 2009

“Saul Eslake is … a highly regarded independent economist with the highest degree of integrity"
John Durie, Columnist, The Australian, July 2009

“… one of the few people in this world who can have so many oranges up in the air at the same time but still manage to catch them"
Andrew Clark, journalist, Australian Financial Review, November 2008

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