Productivity: GAP National Economic Review 2012

It’s a simple equation – the more efficient you are at producing goods and services the more productive your endeavour will be.

At a national level, productivity growth raises living standards and provides us all with better health care, education, access to goods and economic stability. The Australian economy has grown continuously since the early 1990s and that period of improving prosperity has seen Australia’s per capita income improve compared to other developed economies. However, the sources of economic growth have changed over time and, according to the Productivity Commission, Australia’s productivity surge in the 1990s has been steadily slowing.

Australia needs a comprehensive competition policy and targeted strategies to successfully position its expert knowledge and technological innovations within local and international markets if it is to maintain its economic momentum and prepare its economy for the end of the resources boom.

With this in mind, the 2012 Global Access Partners National Economic Review: Australia’s Growth Summit will focus on Productivity. To coincide with the Summit we will be exploring the options and opinions surrounding the future of Australia’s productivity. What are the factors that influence productivity and what policy options exist for leaders? Which countries and businesses are the benchmarks? How do we manage the national economy in times of global economic uncertainty?

Open Forum will feature general blogs on productivity in the lead up to the Summit. Following the event, which takes place at NSW Parliament house on 13 and 14 September, we will publish keynote addresses, speeches and ideas raised at the summit as a permanent record for those who attended and the wider community.

If you would like to take part in the discussion, please contact Lynne Hughes to discuss your blog ideas.

You can follow the Summit at #GAPSummit on twitter.
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RELATED CONTENT

GAP Summit keynote speeches and blogs*:

• Welcome address: planning a productive future – by The Hon Anthony Roberts
• New organisation to redefine measurements of progress and wellbeing – by Andrew Gale
• Australian in the Asian century – by The Hon Craig Emerson
• Looking beyond the mining boom – by David Masters
• In the shadow of the elephant and the dragon – by Adaire Fox-Martin
• Productivity, public value and leadership – Dr Ian Watt AO
• Productivity and the impact of Red Tape by Sen. Arthur Sinodinos
• Challenges for the retail entrepreneur – by Russell Zimmerman
• The IT experience – Is industry serious about the costs of doing business? – by Ed Husic
• A delegate perspective of the GAP Summit – by Victor Perton
• Productivity improvements with restored freedom – by David Murray
• Finding innovation in the most unlikely places – by Israel Makov

Productivity blogs:

• Productivity myths, reality, failure and opportunity – by Alan Castleman
• Why we need to do something about productivity – right now – by patrickcallioni
• Mining regulation in Australia – by Mitchell Hooke
• Productivity is in the eye of the beholder – by David Byers
• Energy and productivity – by Craig Milne
• Productivity in modern Australia – by Peter Fritz

Previous summits:

• GAP’s National Economic Review 2010: Australia’s Annual Growth Summit – featured forum
• GAP’s National Economic Review 2011: Australia’s Annual Growth Summit – Population – featured forum

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