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Decline in Public Hospital Productivity
Thursday, 30 October 2008, 3:58 pm | New Zealand Business Roundtable
"A new study on the performance of New Zealand's public hospitals produced for the New Zealand Business Roundtable reveals a substantial decline in productivity. Despite large additional expenditure on health in recent years, it appears that taxpayers ... More >>
Hospital Productivity: What Does It Mean?
Thursday, 30 October 2008, 11:01 am | New Zealand Business Roundtable
“The Minister of Health’s responses thus far to the report by Mani Maniparathy and released by the New Zealand Business Roundtable (www.nzbr.org.nz) yesterday on productivity in public hospitals are a distraction from the public interest questions ... More >>
Hospital Productivity: What Does It Mean?
Thursday, 30 October 2008, 11:00 am | New Zealand Business Roundtable
“The Minister of Health’s responses thus far to the report by Mani Maniparathy released by the New Zealand Business Roundtable (www.nzbr.org.nz) yesterday on productivity in public hospitals are a distraction from the public interest questions that it ... More >>
Home or Away?: Investing the Cullen Fund
Friday, 24 October 2008, 10:42 am | New Zealand Business Roundtable
Many criticisms can be made of the scheme, and the Business Roundtable opposed it on the grounds that a preferable strategy was to continue to run down debt for a period rather than create an equivalent ‘cookie jar’. One reason among others ... More >>
Cool Heads Needed in Economic Turmoil
Friday, 17 October 2008, 11:11 am | New Zealand Business Roundtable
The current international financial crisis is the worst in most people’s lifetimes. A global recession is in prospect. New Zealand cannot escape the consequences. The duty of policy makers is not to make them worse and to respond with policies to assist ... More >>
Back to Basics on Property Rights
Friday, 10 October 2008, 12:05 am | New Zealand Business Roundtable
Last week New Zealand’s major business organisations released a new report designed to promote a wider understanding among New Zealanders of the importance of security of property rights. More >>
Kerr: Moral Markets
Thursday, 2 October 2008, 1:27 pm | New Zealand Business Roundtable
The complaint that markets make people greedy and selfish is old and familiar. We have been hearing it again on a daily basis in reactions to the current turmoil in financial markets. More >>
Sir Ronald Trotter Lecture Postponed
Wednesday, 1 October 2008, 1:55 pm | New Zealand Business Roundtable
The New Zealand Business Roundtable’s Sir Ronald Trotter Lecture, scheduled to be delivered by Renaissance Group chief executive Stephen Jennings on 7 October at Te Papa in Wellington, has been postponed. More >>
Financial Turmoil: Market Failure or Govt Failure
Tuesday, 30 September 2008, 5:19 pm | New Zealand Business Roundtable
Scholars today widely agree that the Great Depression of the 1930s was largely ‘made by government’ – via excessively tight monetary policy by the US Federal Reserve, ‘beggar thy neighbour’ protectionist trade policies and other errors. More >>
Should We Worry About the Flight of the Kiwi?
Friday, 12 September 2008, 1:54 pm | New Zealand Business Roundtable
In the year to July 2008, net emigration of New Zealanders to Australia (permanent and long-term) was 32,000. In the last three years, the figure was over 78,000 – nearly the population of Palmerston North. More >>
We Need a Clearer Debate About Infrastructure
Monday, 8 September 2008, 11:55 am | New Zealand Business Roundtable
Much discussion about infrastructure is confused. What is infrastructure and how is it best provided? More >>
Sense and Nonsense About Happiness
Friday, 29 August 2008, 2:23 pm | New Zealand Business Roundtable
There has been a long debate in the economic literature on the subject of happiness. A much-cited 1973 article by an American researcher Richard Easterlin concluded that “In all societies, more money for the individual typically means more happiness. ... More >>
Right, Left Thinking an Ideological Straitjacket
Friday, 15 August 2008, 11:32 am | New Zealand Business Roundtable
Earlier this month I was fortunate to be invited to attend the 2008 Consilium organised by the Sydney-based thinktank the Centre for Independent Studies. More >>
Transport Policy: A Replay of the Economic Past?
Friday, 11 July 2008, 4:21 pm | New Zealand Business Roundtable
In February 2000, shortly after the Labour-led government was elected, the then Business Roundtable chairman Ralph Norris gave a speech entitled ‘Can New Zealand Afford to Replay the Economic Past?’ More >>
NZIER Survey Confirms ETS Proposals Lack Support
Tuesday, 8 July 2008, 12:55 am | New Zealand Business Roundtable
“The New Zealand Institute of Economic Research survey released today confirms what the Business Roundtable has been saying: that the government has failed to make a robust case to the public that further action against climate change is in New ... More >>
The Great Train Folly
Friday, 4 July 2008, 10:53 am | New Zealand Business Roundtable
This week the government accomplished what might be a world first for the twenty-first century: the buy-back of a railway. More >>
Renaissance CEO To Deliver Roundtable Lecture
Tuesday, 24 June 2008, 5:09 pm | New Zealand Business Roundtable
Opportunities of a Lifetime: Lessons for New Zealand from New, High-Growth Economies More >>
Bringing on the Innovators
Monday, 23 June 2008, 12:34 am | New Zealand Business Roundtable
Seventy years ago this week a little-known Hungarian patented one of the 20th century’s most successful inventions. Lazlo Biro, a journalist tired of writing with smudgy wet ink, observed in a Budapest printing shop that printing ink dried quickly and ... More >>
Good Progress on Regulatory Responsibility
Friday, 6 June 2008, 5:13 pm | New Zealand Business Roundtable
Last week brought encouraging news for those concerned about over-regulation in this country. Parliament's Commerce Committee recommended that a high-level expert task force should be established to carry forward work on the concept of a Regulatory ... More >>
Budget 2008: An Admission of Failure
Tuesday, 27 May 2008, 9:14 am | New Zealand Business Roundtable
What should we hold a government accountable for? The answer would seem obvious: whether it is achieving the goal which it has stated to be its “top priority’. More >>
