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IRIS is located at the University's Innovation Campus, on Level 1 at iC Central, Squires Way, North Wollongong. You can contact us on 4285 4446 or reach us by fax on 4285 4448. 5th April 2012: Consumer confidence in the Illawarra waned during the three months to March 2012 according to the latest IRIS Consumer Sentiment Monitor . Read more 29th March 2012: The latest edition of the Illawarrra Business Survey has reported businesses in the Illawarra felt a downhill slide in trade activity during the March quarter. Read more
IRIS
WEF Scenario Planning
The Strategic Foresight team engages Forum communities in strategic dialogues to understand and address complex and uncertain long-term challenges. The work is inter-organizational and multistakeholder in terms of governance and participation, and provides a space in which communities, common understanding and trust can emerge. Beyond creating awareness about plausible alternative scenarios, questioning mental models and improving the robustness of decision-making, the work has been useful in developing a systemic understanding of challenges and to map and examine paradigms. This project explores possible political and economic implications of resource availability for business and government stakeholders over the coming two decades. It focuses on the role of interconnections between resources, and the frameworks and solutions that can be used to resolve resource dilemmas. Euro, Dollar, Yuan Uncertainties - Scenarios on the Future of the International Monetary System
The issue of refugees and asylum-seekers provokes heated public debate in many countries around the world, including in Australia. On 14 February 2012, in an address in the Lowy Institute's Distinguished Speaker Series, The United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees, António Guterres, examined emerging developments and trends in forced displacement around the world and the complex, inter-related factors which cause people to flee their homes in search of safety, security and protection. He gave his vision as to how States, working with UNHCR and the United Nations, can more effectively address the humanitarian protection and human security imperatives of forced displacement in ways that also respond to States' legitimate concerns about their own security and that of their people.
Lowy Institute for International Policy
Umair Haque - HBR
Currencies imploding, markets fluctuating, politicians dithering, economies stagnating, societies fracturing, unrest spreading. Welcome to the winter of our discontent — again. Is America failing? And are the other advanced economies following in its staggering footsteps (UK, I'm looking at you)? Consider my very crude, edited, back-of-the-envelope take on a few of the criteria outlined in the Failed States index, one by one.
Completing the Picture - Environmental Accounting in Practice is an environmental accounting conference hosted by the ABS on 14 and 15 May in Melbourne. A conference publication is due to be published this month. Find out more details about the conference and the publication here
ABS - Australian Bureau of Statistics
ABC money economy
The educational activities on this site are intended to help teachers and students focus on key aspects of each radio program. As such, they will help develop students' economic literacy.
What is money? It's not easy to define. Once commodities or precious metals were used as money. More recently, it's been made from paper or metal and its intrinsic value has had no relationship to the value it represents.
