One measure that has been designed to separate the two is the Genuine Progress Indicator (GPI).GPI starts with Personal Consumption Expenditures (a major component of GDP indicative of discretionary spending) but weights it by income distribution (because a dollar’s worth of income to a poor person creates more welfare than a dollar’s worth of income to a rich person). Beijing wants a consumer-driven economy, but it does not want this new economy to undermine state authority by appearing corrupt, writes Robert Potter. For the last decade, one of China’s fastest growing sectors was luxury goods. Today, there are even finishing schools that teach you how to pronounce the names of luxury brands. Her books include Doing Politics: Writing on Public Life, Robert Menzies’ Forgotten People, The Enigmatic Mr Deakin, From Secret Ballot to Democracy Sausage, and four Quarterly Essays. Marija Taflaga is the Director of ANU Centre for the Study of Australian Politics and a Lecturer at ANU School of Politics and International Relations.
Her books include Doing Politics: Writing on Public Life, Robert Menzies’ Forgotten People, The Enigmatic Mr Deakin, From Secret Ballot to Democracy Sausage, and four Quarterly Essays. Marija Taflaga is the Director of ANU Centre for the Study of Australian Politics and a Lecturer at ANU School of Politics and International Relations. Does 'casualty cringe' affect Australian defence policy? With Australia scrambling to join another dogfight in the Middle East – this time providing Robert Breunig is a Professor at Crawford School of Public Policy, Australian National University, and is also the director of the Tax and Transfer Policy Institute. He conducts research in three main areas: economics of the household; empirical industrial organisation; and statistical and econometric theory. William Stoltz is Manager of Policy Engagement at the ANU National Security College. He is a Visiting Fellow at the Robert Menzies Institute at the University of Melbourne, and an Associate Member of the Centre for the Study of Subversion, Unconventional Interventions and Terrorism at the University of Nottingham. And what’s at stake at the upcoming UN Climate Change Conference in Glasgow? This week on Policy Forum Pod, Head of the Climate and Security Policy Centre at the Australian Strategic Policy Institute Dr Robert Glasser joins Dr Arnagretta Hunter and Professor Sharon Bessell to discuss these questions and more.
Robert Breunig is a Professor at Crawford School of Public Policy, Australian National University, and is also the director of the Tax and Transfer Policy Institute. He conducts research in three main areas: economics of the household; empirical industrial organisation; and statistical and econometric theory. William Stoltz is Manager of Policy Engagement at the ANU National Security College. He is a Visiting Fellow at the Robert Menzies Institute at the University of Melbourne, and an Associate Member of the Centre for the Study of Subversion, Unconventional Interventions and Terrorism at the University of Nottingham. And what’s at stake at the upcoming UN Climate Change Conference in Glasgow? This week on Policy Forum Pod, Head of the Climate and Security Policy Centre at the Australian Strategic Policy Institute Dr Robert Glasser joins Dr Arnagretta Hunter and Professor Sharon Bessell to discuss these questions and more. Robert Field He works with the GISS climate model, specialising in the water cycle, and the cause, fate, and effects of emissions from biomass burning. From 2000-2004, he was part of a joint project between the governments of Indonesia, Malaysia and Canada to develop fire danger rating systems in the region.
