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Intergovernmental economic organisation warns core inflation across the world remains ‘persistent’ and may require policy action from Reserve Bank

Higher interest rates and weaker trade, as well as sluggish growth in China, likely to hit big economies

The global economy is expected to keep slowing in response to higher interest rates, forecasts by a major global organisation show.

Many countries are facing teacher shortages, and competitive salaries are ‘crucial’ to retaining teachers, a report says.

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With the nation feeling the pressures of a housing crisis, some believe the Australian government needs to ease housing demand by limiting international migration.

The firm joined the other big four consultancies in calling for the world-leading regime to be postponed or watered down

Although literacy varies across states, the average literacy rate of the US hasn’t changed since 2012.

Figures give fuel to claims that profiteering has played a big part in the UK’s high levels of inflation

Increasing the rate of paid maternity leave, so it is tied to prior earnings, rather than just increasing the time off work, could lead to better and fairer outcomes for Australian families.

By introducing four weeks of paid parental leave for partners if re-elected, the Labour Party would move New Zealand out of an undesirable and tiny club of OECD nations. Only the United States and Israel would then not offer something similar after the birth (or adoption) of a baby.