Thursday, 27 October 2016

Time to do some “maintenance on equity and labour markets” to recover public support for trade. ?????

http://gmpsiaprec.blogspot.com/2016/10/time-to-do-some-maintenance-on-equity.html

Economist Tim Harcourt, calls for time to do some “maintenance on equity and labour markets” to recover public support for trade, in an article published in the Sydney Morning Herald (SMH) on Wednesday. The article covers off on the current free trade debate and its connect  the USA elections , the article is one in a series of quality articles in the SMH. 

Economist Tim Harcourt, an advocate of open markets. Says it’s time to do some “maintenance on equity and labour markets” to recover public support for trade. 


The article also points out that " Trump and Clinton both oppose the 12-nation Trans-Pacific Partnership, while China presses on with its own trade agreement for 16 nations of the Indo-Pacific, including Australia." **

 ** This refers to RCEP , which was recently raised at the PSI APRECON Conference as part of the trade debate - Details on what RECP is can be found at https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Regional_Comprehensive_Economic_Partnership