Economic analysis

This year’s AIBS survey focussed on a part of the world that is increasingly attractive to our services export earners, Latin America.

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AIBS respondents are experienced exporters, but we have found in two separate surveys that around half of our respondents do not engage in e-commerce.

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One of the main themes picked up by the AIBS platform is the importance of ASEAN to Australia’s internationally-active businesses.

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In recent years, a debate around international trade and investment has focused on which of our largest economic partners is the most important to Australia. Two countries put forward regularly in th ...

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AIBS 2018 is one of the largest and most detailed surveys of Australia’s internationally-active businesses. This latest survey captures the responses of 713 Australian companies (629 internationally a ...

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Today sees the release of the latest report in the Australia’s International Business Survey (AIBS) series. Supported by Austrade, the Export Finance and Insurance Corporation (Efic) and the Export Co ...

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In September 2018, Standard & Poor’s (S&P) Global Ratings revised its outlook on the long-term ratings for Australia from negative to stable and reaffirmed its AAA sovereign credit rating.

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Following a 2.1% increase in 2016-17, Australia’s real GDP grew by 2.9% in 2017-18, according to the latest national accounts figures released by the Australian Bureau of Statistics.

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There were 9.1 million short-term (that is, involving stays of less than one year) international visitor arrivals to Australia for the year ending June 2018.

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The estimated number of foreign-owned businesses in Australia (with foreign ownership greater than 50 per cent of total equity) was 9,946 at the end of the financial year 2014-15 , according to the Au ...

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