Economics: Global economic issue: Covid-19 pandemic

Video: The Cost of Climate and Covid 

Q&A August 2021 (duration 1:00:26)

• Clean energy future: costs/benefits analysis - University of Melbourne (July 2021)
• It is possible to phase out coal - The Conversation (September 2021)

• DFAT - Foreign Affairs and Trade
  • Country fact sheets - trade
  • Articles and publications
  • Trade agreements
• Austrade - Australian Trade and Investment Commission

• Australian Unions
  • news
  • campaigns
• Fairwork.gov.au - list of unions, organised by industry
• "When Christian met Sally" the match made by a pandemic (The Conversation)

• Australian Chamber of Business and Commerce
  • Covid support
  • campaigns e.g. business conditions
• BCA - Business Council of Australia
• Business.gov.au
• Industry organisations e.g.
  • Energy Networks Australia
  • Master Builders Association
  • Australian Banking Association

• RBA - home page
• RBA - Covid-19 responses
• The Reserve Bank has done as much as it can. Now it's time for the government - Professor Richard Holden (The Conversation, 21 August 2020)

• ACCC - Australian Competition & Consumer Commission
• Commonwealth Ombudsman
• Industry consumer groups e.g.
  • People with Disability Australia
  • Mental Health Australia

• Economic Society of Australia
• Productivity Commission

Video: How to rebuild the global economy - head of IMF (duration 42:21)

Websites for reliable information

• The Conversation - can the world afford the Coronavirus spending?
• IMF Global debt database - graphs to compare countries

Questions to ask:

• What is Modern Monetary Theory?
• Who do governments borrow from?

Australia

• The Conversation - should Australia keep running up debt? Economists say yes.
• ABC News - why debts and deficits are here to stay

Websites for reliable information:

• OECD international trade
• IMF data tables - specify country

Questions to ask:

• How has import/export changed?
• What time-lag might there be?

Australia

• IMF data table - select Australia from drop-down
• Resources and Energy Quarterly - value, volume and price of Australia’s major resources and energy commodity exports

Video: Endgame - Q+A (duration 1:00:53)

As frustrated Victorians endure lockdown again, businesses across the country are hurting. Is it time we learnt to live with COVID long term? What risk are we prepared to live with?

Websites for reliable information

• OECD - Small and medium-sized enterprises (SME) and trade
• World Bank - interactive map of SME-support measures

Questions to ask:

• What types of policies support SME?
• Who is eligible?

Australia

• Employment.gov.au - graphing (un)employment this year
• Australian Bureau of Statistics - see which industries have been most affected
• Treasury  - SME Guarantee Scheme

Video: The Covid-19 crisis is a chance to do capitalism differently (duration 51:22)

What if aviation doesn't recover from Covid-19? The Economist

Websites for reliable information

• OECD country policy tracker - data, graphs and summaries of government action and its effects
• IMF country policy responses - short (and up-to-date) summaries of government response

Questions to ask:

• When is it written? We have learned this year that a lot can change in a single week.
• Who is writing?

Australia

• The Treasury - economic response section
• The Conversation (Business and Economics section) - Academic rigour, journalistic flair

2019

Websites for reliable information

• The Economist data tables - compares 2019 to 2020

Questions to ask:

• How did they forecast 2020

Australia

• RBA 'snapshot' comparison - choose two dates and compare the data

• Australian Bureau of Statistics - Tourism and the effect of Coronavirus