Without a recovery in business and consumer confidence, Australia is unlikely to see a pick up in economic growth and employment.
How will China’s money talk?
Nabeel A Mancheri
As China becomes the world’s largest economy, trade inter-dependence in the region could translate to political clout.
Asia and the Pacific Policy Society Fellow Sri Mulyani Indrawati has had a distinguished career in academia and policy-making. She tells Belinda Thompson about some of the challenges facing both of those worlds.
More uncertainty seems guaranteed
From a volatile US stock market to anxieties about Greece exiting the Euro and an upcoming Australian budget that is getting increasingly hard to frame, the future of the global economy in 2015 is anything but certain.