ALP’s immigration extremist bemoans missing economic complexity

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Labor’s shadow assistant minister for Treasury, Dr Andrew Leigh, has penned an article in The Australian bemoaning Australia’s lack of economic complexity, which resembles a poor developing nation:

[A] troubling picture comes from the Atlas of Economic Complexity…

According to the latest rankings, the world’s most complex economies are Japan, Switzerland and Germany, while the least complex are Liberia, Guinea and Nigeria.

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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.