... performance since the beginning of the 1990s has restored relative productivity and GDP per person to the position held in 1950s. This improvement in productivity can be attributed to the adoption of more flexible labour market practices including enterprise bargaining; the range of microeconomic reform measures introduced to make markets more competitive and the increasing absorption of new technologies which has ... to macroeconomic objectives. If microeconomic reforms are successful, they will contribute to a better Australian macroeconomic performance by helping to overcome structur...

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... provided cheaply to industrialists to start private sector growth. In fundamental industries, like power generation, cement or steel production, governments invested in state-owned plants. Finally, there needed to be wide-scale changes in culture and populations needed to become less conservative and more entrepreneurial. Traditional familial and community ties needed to be replaced by a merit based appointment system and developing ... prevented national self-determination and economic betterment. In practice, both modernization and dependency thinking impacted the politics of internat...

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... in the late 19th century. A sense that the world was united was generated by the establishment of the International Date Line and world time zones, together with the near global adoption of the Gregorian calendar between 1875 and 1925. During that period, international standards were also agreed for telegraphy and signalling. The end of the Second World War brought another great ... to turn back the globalising influence of communications technology Anti globalisation What if the tide could be rolled back? What would those who oppose globalisation want to see? There is a wide range of o...

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