Spend on services jobs, social housing: an Australian view

Spend on services jobs, social housing: an Australian view
Jenny Ruth
Governments would get more "bang for their buck" in helping their economies to recover from the covid-19 pandemic by concentrating on creating jobs in the services sector and focusing on measures to encourage consumption, according to Danielle Wood, chief executive of the Grattan Institute in Melbourne."The bias should be towards consumption at this point in time, as well as direct job creation," Wood told journalists after her presentation to Morningstar's investment conference yesterday, which was held virtually this y...

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