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Southeast Asia’s post-pandemic recovery outlook
Commentary
Southeast Asia’s post-pandemic recovery outlook
Originally published on Brooking's Order From Chaos blog.
By Roland Rajah
Blame austerity, not the RBA for post-GFC slow growth
Commentary
Blame austerity, not the RBA for post-GFC slow growth
Ross Garnaut is wrong to fault the Reserve Bank for not cutting rates during the ‘Dog Days’ of 2013-2019. The real culprit was elsewhere. Originally published in the Australian…
By Stephen Grenville
If money is practically free, why is nobody investing it?
Commentary
If money is practically free, why is nobody investing it?
Negative interest rates won’t help when it is clear that there are other reasons entrepreneurs have lost their mojo. Originally published in The Australian Financial Review.
By Stephen Grenville
2020 Asia Power Index Key Findings Report
Analyses
2020 Asia Power Index Key Findings Report
The annual Asia Power Index — launched by the Lowy Institute in 2018 — measures resources and influence to rank the relative power of states in Asia. The project maps out the…
By Hervé Lemahieu, Alyssa Leng
China and the Rules‑Based Order
Interactives
China and the Rules‑Based Order
Seven experts debate China’s approach to the rules‑based international order
By David Kelly, Nadège Rolland, Ben Scott, John Culver
Business, government must engage on international trade policy
Commentary
Business, government must engage on international trade policy
Originally published in The Australian.
By Dmitry Grozoubinski
Submission to the Joint Standing Committee on Foreign Affairs, Defence and Trade Inquiry into the Implications of the COVID-19 Pandemic for Australia's Foreign Affairs, Defence and Trade
Submissions
Submission to the Joint Standing Committee on Foreign Affairs, Defence and Trade Inquiry into the Implications of the COVID-19 Pandemic for Australia's Foreign Affairs, Defence and Trade
Joint submission by Lowy Institute researchers to the JSCFADT inquiry into the implications of the pandemic.  
By Michael Fullilove, Stephen Grenville, John Edwards, Sam Roggeveen, Lydia Khalil, Alex Oliver, Annmaree O’Keeffe, Richard McGregor, Bonnie S Glaser, Jonathan Pryke, Hervé Lemahieu, Alexandre Dayant, Ben Bland, Roland Rajah, Shane McLeod, Natasha Kassam, Ben Scott
The World Trade Organization: An Optimistic Pre-mortem in Hopes of Resurrection
Analyses
The World Trade Organization: An Optimistic Pre-mortem in Hopes of Resurrection
At a time when stability and predictability are needed most, the body at the heart of the rules-based trading system — the World Trade Organization — is reeling from far more than…
By Dmitry Grozoubinski
Modern Monetary Theory and mainstream economics converging
Commentary
Modern Monetary Theory and mainstream economics converging
Stephen Grenville gives a detailed account in the Eureka Report on Modern Monetary Theory (MMT), which after a decade on on the periphery of economic discussion, has…
By Stephen Grenville