Australia Yearbook - 2001

688 Year Book Australia 2001
up-to-date public policy analysis and commodity
forecasts.
ABARE’s research seeks to clearly and
independently identify the benefits and costs
of alternative policy options for consideration by
government and private decision makers.
ABARE’s data about domestic and international
economic performance help clients achieve
increased productivity, enhanced value and
improved market access.
ABARE services include:
deriving supply and demand projections;
assessing the outlook for commodity prices;
examining patterns of national and world
production and consumption;
analysing the impact of economic policies;
developing analytical computer programs
and economic policies;
undertaking regional and environmental
economic assessments; and
providing economic assessments of factors
affecting the competitiveness of the resources
sector.
ABARE undertakes economic research on issues
affecting the full range of major minerals, energy,
agricultural and natural resources industries, as
well as on climate change, and on
macroeconomic, microeconomic and trade issues
relating to these industries.