About Us
He Commonwealth of Australia
is a country in the southern hemisphere comprising the mainland
of the world's smallest continent, the major island of Tasmania
and a number of other islands in the Southern, Indian and
Pacific Oceans.The name "Australia" is derived
from the Latin Australis, meaning "of the South".Business
means the staste of being busy. In economics, a business
is a legally-recognized organizational entity existing within
an economically free country designed to sell goods and
or services to consumers, and earning profits and money
Australia has a prosperous, Western-style mixed economy,
with a per capita GDP slightly higher than those of the
UK, Germany and France in terms of purchasing power parity.
The country was ranked third in the United Nations' 2006
Human Development Index and sixth in The Economist worldwide
quality-of-life index 2005. The absence of an export-oriented
manufacturing industry has been considered a key weakness
of the Australian economy. More recently, rising prices
for Australia's commodity exports and increasing tourism
have made this criticism less relevant. Nevertheless, Australia
has the world's fourth largest current account deficit in
absolute terms (in relative terms it is more than 7% of
GDP). This is considered problematic by some economists,
especially as it has coincided with the high terms of trade
and low interest rates that make the cost of servicing the
foreign debt low.
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