One side of the debate about anti-dumping argues that dumping is not a problem in international trade - that it is a normal business practice which benefits the importing country's consumers and user industries - and that anti-dumping is inherently protectionist. The other side argues that an...

Productivity Commission Chairman, Gary Banks, gave a keynote address to the Annual Forecasting Conference of the Australian Business Economists in Sydney on 8 December 2010. This speech considers the obstacles to identifying and successfully implementing genuine reform, and the ways in which...

Abstract from the foreword: Public speech-making is part and parcel of the role of the Chairman of the Productivity Commission, as it was for the Commission’s predecessors. Such speeches provide an additional medium through which the findings and policy messages in the Commission’s diverse...

In a presentation in November 2002 to the Annual Conference of the National Association for Gambling Studies in Melbourne, Productivity Commission Chairman Gary Banks provided an update on key developments in Australia's gambling industries, three years after publication of the Commission's 1999...

In its latest annual report, of which this is an extract, the Productivity Commission responds to current misconceptions about globalisation and the World Trade Organization (WTO). The Commission notes that, among other trends, there has been a five-fold increase in average per capita income...