Australia: Commodities, Competitiveness, Climate and China

Case Solution

Richard H.K. Vietor, Laura Alfaro
Harvard Business School ()

For the past several decades, Australia has grappled with the benefits and costs of repeated inflation from the mining boom, a housing bubble, a current account deficit, and growing dependence on China. However, between 1996 and 2007, Australia had most of these problems under control and grew at an impressive rate to become one of the richest industrialized countries. However, competitiveness in non-mining sectors declined. Since the financial crisis, additional challenges related to climate change, oil taxes, migration, budget deficits and currency volatility have compounded the problems of Labor and Liberal administrations by a very slim majority. Meanwhile, Australia’s non-mining competitiveness continues to decline.

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