Presentation by Professor Warwick McKibbin, Professorial Fellow at the Lowy Institute, at the conference Emissions Trading in Australia: Status and Prospects, held at the Sydney Stock Exchange by the Australian Emissions Trading Forum and the CRC for Greenhouse Accounting.The presentation was based
Presentation by Mark Thirlwell, Program Director, International Economy, to Our Shared Future: The UK - Australia Future Leaders Dialogue, Sydney Conservatorium of Music, 16 April 2004
Michael Fullilove writes on Australians' attitudes to their expatriates and the need for policies to harness the Australian diaspora.Sydney Morning Herald, 12 April 2004;The Age, 12 April 2004
Alan Dupont, Senior Fellow at the Lowy Institute for International Policy, comments on Mark Latham's first significant speech on foreign policy. Mr Latham addressed the Lowy Institute in Sydney on 7 April 2004
Changing utterly? Australia's international policy in an uncertain age: proceedings of a Lowy Institute conference held in November 2003. The proceedings, edited by Professor William Tow, are now available for download
This Issues Brief examines how changes to the Japanese political system, reflected in the November 9 election results, offer new hope for structural economic reforms that would benefit Australia
On 8 February Australian Trade Minister Mark Vaile concluded an agreed text for an Australia-United States Free Trade Agreement. This Issues Brief provides a preliminary assessment of the agreement, based on the limited information now available
Michael Fullilove reviews Franklin Delano Roosevelt: Champion of Freedom, a biography by Conrad Black. The Australian, 7 February 2004, 6 - NSW Country, p. B10
The outbreak of SARS in late 2002 has alerted the world to the potential economic costs of epidemics. The purpose of this paper is to provide an assessment of the global economic impacts of the SARS disease as well as provide a more comprehensive approach to estimating the global consequences of
This Issues Brief suggests that a key theme over the past year has been the management of external imbalances in a world economy that is not only increasingly integrated but which is simultaneously undergoing a sustained geographic shift in the distribution of economic weight towards Asia
Malcolm Cook, Program Director, Asia and the Pacific at the Lowy Institute, writes on elections to be held in East Asia in 2004. Canberra Times, 8 January 2004, p. 17
Mark Thirlwell, Program Director, International Economy at the Lowy Institute, writes on the economic development of China and IndiaThe Australian, 6 January 2004, 1 - All-round Country, p. 9
Malcolm Cook and Michael Fullilove write on the dangerous interplay of foreign policy and party politics in the case of the Taiwan Straits dispute.Sydney Morning Herald, 31 December 2003, p. 9
Allan Gyngell, Executive Director of the Lowy Institute, writes on Australia’s membership of the Commonwealth. Sydney Morning Herald, 15 December 2003, p. 9
Mark Thirlwell, Program Director, International Economy at the Lowy Institute, writes on the outlook for the global economy in 2004. The Diplomat, Vol. 2 No. 5, Dec-Jan 2004, pp. 25-26
In the US, a large current account deficit has been joined by a growing fiscal shortfall, leading to a return of the “twin deficits” phenomenon last seen in the 1980s
Presentation by Mark Thirlwell, Program Director, International Economy, at the Lowy Institute conference “Changing utterly? Australia’s international policy in an uncertain age
Allan Gyngell, Executive Director of the Lowy Institute, writes about the current debates on Australia’s position in the world. Australian Financial Review, 25 November 2003, p.63
Michael Fullilove, the Lowy Institute’s Program Director, Global Issues, writes on the appointment of a high-level panel on reform of the United Nations. The Sydney Morning Herald, 17 November 2003, p.13
Remarks about the Lowy Institute and corporate philanthropy by Michael Fullilove, Program Director, Global Issues, Lowy Institute, at Pursuing Opportunity and Prosperity: 2003 Economic and Social Outlook Conference
Developments including the rise of vertically specialised trade and the growing internationalisation of production, broader and deeper goods and financial market integration, the extension of international trade to the previously “non-tradeable” services sector, and the spread of international
Mark Thirlwell, the Lowy Institute’s Program Director, International Economy, writes on the visits to Australia of Presidents George Bush and Hu Jintao. The Age, 18 October 2003. Insight p.11
The post-World War II international trade policy framework is being challenged by a proliferation of bilateral and regional trading arrangements. Australia faces a choice over whether to join this preferential trade bandwagon and risk collateral damage to the multilateral trading system, or to go no
Southeast Asian industrial exports are now facing intense competition from Chinese industrial exports. How much more would competition increase with China's recent accession to the World Trade Organization? Would Indonesia, Malaysia, Philippines and Thailand (the ASEAN-4) de-industrialise and return
In this paper we update our earlier estimates of the cost of the Kyoto Protocol using the G-Cubed model, taking into account the new sink allowances from recent negotiations as well as allowing for multiple gases and new land clearing estimates. 
The current weakness in the global economy has generated a debate on the likely outlook for the world economy and the appropriate response for monetary policies.