Why rising commodity exports will hurt

Advertisement
ScreenHunter_07 Nov. 26 16.13

By Leith van Onselen

Westpac has released an interesting new report looking at the impact of Australia’s export commodity boom on real GDP. Westpac estimates that the growth in commodity exports will add around 1 percentage point a year to GDP growth over the three year period to 2016-17:

Australia’s resource sector is experiencing a golden age. Here we provide a progress report on the “great expansion” of Australian resource exports.

The full text of this article is available to MacroBusiness subscribers

$1 for your first month, then:
Cancel at any time through our billing provider, Stripe
About the author
Leith van Onselen is Chief Economist at the MB Fund and MB Super. He is also a co-founder of MacroBusiness. Leith has previously worked at the Australian Treasury, Victorian Treasury and Goldman Sachs.