Productivity
As Paul Krugman famously said, “Productivity isn’t everything, but in the long run, it’s nearly everything”. I spent half of the interval between working at ANZ and Bank of America Merrill Lynch researching and writing about productivity growth for the Grattan Institute.
The World and Australian Economies in a Nutshell – Presentation to 2025 All Actuaries Summit
Productivity, The Australian Economy, The Global Economy | 12th June 2025Saul’s presentation to the Actuaries’ Institute “All Actuaries Summit” in Sydney on 12th June 2025:
Australia’s Federal Election 2025 Key Issues
Australian Society and Politics, Economic Policies, Housing, Productivity, Recent Media Interview, Taxation, The Australian Economy | 27th April 2025In this InEconomics podcast series Saul Eslake dives into an in-depth analysis of cost-of-living and housing issues, shedding light on untargeted policies and the broader economic implications.
Things that we should be (but won’t be) talking about during the current election campaign
Australian Society and Politics, Economic Policies, Productivity | 11th April 2025Saul Eslake’s on-line presentation to ‘Curtin Corner’, hosted by the John Curtin Institute for Public Policy at Curtin University in Perth, Western Australia, on 11th April, about the economic and budgetary issues that _should_ be being discussed during the 2025 election campaign, but won’t be.
The Importance of Productivity – and What to Do About It
Economic Policies, Productivity, The Australian Economy | 29th March 2025Slides accompany talks to clients of The Bevington Group, a Melbourne-based management consulting firm specializing in operating model and process transformation, about the importance of productivity – and what might be done to arrest and reverse the slide in productivity growth in Australia.
Productivity, Tax Reform and ‘Peak China’
Asian Economies, Economic Policies, Productivity, Taxation, The Australian Economy | 13th March 2024Talk to a gathering of parliamentarians, business leaders and others from the UK and Australia, in Melbourne, on Wednesday 13th March 2024 PRODUCTIVITY, TAX REFORM & ‘PEAK CHINA’ TALK TO COOK SOCIETY, 13th MARCH 2024 by Saul Eslake Principal, Corinna Economic Advisory Download PDF version Productivity Productivity – what we get by way of […]
Population, participation and productivity: How to think about long-run economic growth
Productivity, The Global Economy | 5th July 2017Presentation to the International Conference of Commercial Bank Economists (ICCBE), Paris, 4-6th July 2017
Five Potential Impediments to Improving Australia’s Productivity Performance
Productivity | 13th December 2016Presentation to a conference hosted by the Productivity Commission at its offices in Canberra, 13th December 2016
The Importance of productivity as a driver of the Victorian economy
Productivity, The Australian Economy | 24th November 2016Presentation to Members of Victoria’s Parliament, Melbourne, 25th November 2016