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  • Life in lockdown: The economic and social effect of lockdown during Alert Level 4 in New Zealand 
    Prickett, Kate C.; Fletcher, Michael; Chapple, Simon; Doan, Nguyen; Smith, Conal (2020)
    On March 25th 2020 New Zealand completed a 48 hour transition to an Alert Level 4 lockdown, a state which severely restricted people’s movement and their social interactions in an attempt to limit the spread of Covid-19. ...
  • Official statistics in the search for solutions for living with COVID-19 and its consequences 
    Cook, Len; Gray, Alistair; Haslett, Steve; Lumley, Thomas; Mackie, Roger; Trewin, Dennis; Cope, Ian; Snively, Suzanne; Rosenberg, Bill; Karacaoglu, Girol; Yeabsley, John; Sutch, Helen; Easton, Brian; Snorrason, Hallgrimur; Ljones, Olaf; Thygesen, Lars; Radermacher, Walter; Wilson, Nick; Holt, Tim; Pullinger, John; St John, Susan; Dunnett, Gary (2020)
    The prolonged existence of COVID-19 and the consequential actions to manage it both nationally, regionally and internationally will provide national statistical offices with the greatest challenges that they might ever ...
  • Is the Commerce Act 1986 fit for purpose?: A blueprint for a new Commerce Act 
    Bertram, Geoff (2020)
    As New Zealand’s experiment with deregulation limps unsteadily into its fourth decade, documented cases of regulatory failure accumulate. A common theme running through these failures is that the weakening of regulatory ...
  • Official statistics in the search for solutions for living with COVID-19 and its consequences 
    Cook, Len; Gray, Alistair; Haslett, Steve; Lumley, Thomas; Mackie, Roger; Trewin, Dennis; Cope, Ian; Snively, Suzanne; Rosenberg, Bill; Karacaoglu, Girol; Yeabsley, John; Sutch, Hellen; Easton, Brian; Snorrason, Hallgrimur; Ljones, Olaf; Thygesen, Lars; Radermacher, Walter; Wilson, Nick; Holt, Tim; Pullinger, John; St John, Susan; Dunnett, Gary (2020)
    The prolonged existence of COVID-19 and the consequential actions to manage it both nationally, regionally and internationally will provide national statistical offices with the greatest challenges that they might ever ...
  • Economic policy in the public sphere: A perspective from New Zealand 
    Makhlouf, Gabriel; Mukherjee, Udayan (2019)
    In this essay, our aim is to reflect on the uses of economics in policy in New Zealand, and offer a view on where it may need to develop in coming years. Our intention is to speak primarily to policy practitioners, by which ...
  • Fiscal History 
    Rose, Dennis (2019)
    This paper is based on a presentation to a Symposium, "Well-being, budget responsibility rules and the Public Finance Act", hosted on 15 April 2019 by the Institute of Governance and Policy Studies at Victoria University ...
  • Can We Keep Flying? Decarbonising New Zealand’s Domestic and International Aviation 
    Rae, Wallace; Callister, Paul (2019)
    There is a recognition in New Zealand of an urgent need to decarbonise our economy. Two of our largest export industries are dairying and tourism. Together they earn valuable income that supports New Zealand’s relatively ...
  • How effective are 2018 policy settings for the worst-off children? 
    St John, Susan; So, Yun (2018)
    This report analyses the policy settings in mid-2018 for their potential to improve the position of the worst-off children in New Zealand. The Labour-led government, elected at the end of 2017, seeks to place child ...
  • Does an empirical Heckman curve exist? 
    Rea, David; Burton, David (2018)
    The Heckman Curve suggests that the rate of return to public investments in human capital declines across the life course. This paper assesses the empirical evidence for the Heckman Curve, using estimates of program benefit ...
  • From Complexity to Collaboration: Creating the New Zealand we want for ourselves, and enabling future generations to do the same for themselves 
    Eppel, Elizabeth; Provoost, Donna; Karacaoglu, Girol (2018)
    The purpose of this paper is to change how we approach public policy and implementation for complex problems such as child poverty. The ultimate objective of public policy is to improve people’s lives and wellbeing, now ...
  • Wealth Disparities in New Zealand: Final Report 
    Rashbrooke, Geoff; Rashbrooke, Max; Molano, Wilma (2017)
    Over the period 2002 to 2010, Statistics New Zealand carried out a longitudinal survey known as the Survey of Family, Income and Employment (SoFIE). Some eight waves of data were collected. In every second wave (2003/2004, ...
  • The Case for New Climate Change Adaption. Funding Instruments. 
    Boston, Jonathan; Lawrence, Judy (2017)
    Adapting to climate change during the 21st century and beyond poses unprecedented technical, administrative and political challenges that will test the ability to cope at national and local levels. The impacts of climate ...
  • Bridges Both Ways. Transforming the Openness of New Zealand Government. 
    Rashbrooke, Max (2017)
    One of New Zealand’s great strengths is its easy-going, ‘she’ll be right’ attitude; but every strength can become a weakness. That is increasingly the case with the country’s record on public transparency, political ...
  • Review of New Zealand Police’s progress in response to the 2007 Commission of Inquiry into Police Conduct 
    Rowe, Mike; Macaulay, Michael (2017)
    In 2007 the report of the Commission of Inquiry (CoI) into Police Conduct made 60 recommendations for change; New Zealand Police (NZ Police) had responsibility for 47 of those. In an effort to ensure that the broad package ...
  • Permanent Forest Bonds: A pioneering environmental impact bond for Aotearoa New Zealand 
    Hall, David; Lindsay, Sam; Judd, Sam (2017)
    Section 1: The challenge is to establish permanent forest on vulnerable land throughout New Zealand, especially erosion-prone land and waterway margins (see Boxes 1 & 2). Leaving this land unforested hinders the nation’s ...
  • Wealth Disparities in New Zealand: Preliminary Report Providing Updated Data from SOFIE 
    Rashbrooke, Geoff; Rashbrooke, Max; Molano, Wilma (2015)
    Over the period 2002 to 2010, Statistics New Zealand carried out a longitudinal survey known as the Survey of Family, Income and Employment (SoFIE). Some eight waves of data were collected. Every second wave (2003/2004, ...
  • The "investment approach" – liabilities or assets? 
    James, Colin (2015)
    In 2011 the government adopted from the Accident Compensation Corporation via the Welfare Working Group a programme of actuarially estimating the cost of someone staying long-term on a benefit and using that as the basis ...
  • Vested Interests 
    James, Colin (2014)
    In 2010-11 three government policy initiatives aroused controversy and accusations of special treatment for "vested interests": a change in workplace relations law to meet the demand of a film company; special treatment ...
  • Governance of a Complex System : Water 
    Eppel, Elizabeth (2014)
    Fresh water is a life-enabling resource as well as the source of spiritual, social and economic wellbeing and development. It is continuously renewed by the Earth’s natural recycling systems using heat from the sun to ...
  • Connectedness & Canterbury. How did government agencies connect in response to the Canterbury earthquakes of 2010 and 2011? 
    Parish, Catrin (2014)
    The Canterbury earthquake sequence of 2010 and 2011 presented the Government with unprecedented challenges, not least of which was to ensure consistency and connectedness across each of its agencies who had a role in the ...

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