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Personal budgets transforming lives of disabled Kiwis
Friday, 27 August 2021, 8:35 am | The New Zealand Initiative
A new report by the New Zealand Initiative says personal budgets are a social services innovation that is creating new opportunities and changing how disabled Kiwis live. The report, titled The Power of Freedom: How personal budgets for social services ... More >>
Knee-jerk political reactions unhelpful
Wednesday, 18 August 2021, 10:33 am | The New Zealand Initiative
A review of last week’s blackout by Carl Hansen, the former Chief Executive of the Electricity Authority (EA), argues for a sober and careful analysis of why 35,000 consumers lost power for up to two hours on 9 August. In a research paper published ... More >>
Employment Law Change Needed To Improve Productivity
Monday, 21 June 2021, 11:32 am | The New Zealand Initiative
New Zealand's productivity growth is being hampered by employment protection laws that constrain boards and business owners from firing poorly performing senior managers, warns a report from The New Zealand Initiative. In Nothing Costs Nothing: Why unjustified ... More >>
To Graduation And Beyond
Thursday, 10 June 2021, 9:50 am | The New Zealand Initiative
Wellington (Thursday, 10 June 2021): Every secondary school should provide every student with the skills and knowledge they need to succeed in their endeavours after graduation. However, new research from the New Zealand Initiative shows that this ... More >>
Government Should Reject Climate Commission’s Plans
Wednesday, 9 June 2021, 4:02 pm | The New Zealand Initiative
Wellington (Wednesday, 9 June 2021): The New Zealand Initiative calls on the Government to reject the Climate Change Commission’s recommendations and instead rely on the Emissions Trading Scheme’s cap to achieve net zero emissions by 2050. “The Climate ... More >>
The Perils Of Rent Control In New Zealand
Thursday, 29 April 2021, 11:32 am | The New Zealand Initiative
The Government’s recent housing package announcement primarily focused on measures to dampen housing demand, particularly from those who provide rental accommodation services, rather than the key drivers of inadequate housing supply. Focusing on these ... More >>
Climate Change Commission Shows Economic Transformation Is Unnecessary
Friday, 26 March 2021, 3:32 pm | The New Zealand Initiative
Wellington (Friday, 26 March 2021): The Climate Change Commission has made no convincing case for its sweeping economic reforms to reduce emissions, says Matt Burgess, Senior Economist at The New Zealand Initiative. Analysis by the Climate Change Commission ... More >>
Doing Business In New Zealand Has Just Become Riskier
Friday, 26 March 2021, 11:26 am | The New Zealand Initiative
Wellington (Friday, 26 March 2021): Tuesday’s announcement of new housing policies from the Government has just made New Zealand a far riskier place to do business, warns a policy paper released today by The New Zealand Initiative. A risky place ... More >>
Government's Planned Pharmac Review A Sideshow
Tuesday, 2 March 2021, 3:34 pm | The New Zealand Initiative
The Government’s announcement of a review into Pharmac declares that its budget, and the total amount allocated to pharmaceuticals, will be out of scope. This ignores the most serious weakness with current arrangements: that no one really knows whether ... More >>
Are Kiwi Kids Getting The Education They Deserve?
Tuesday, 2 March 2021, 6:15 am | The New Zealand Initiative
A well-functioning education system is vital to equip our children for life. However, a new report from The New Zealand Initiative says it is not clear whether the education system is serving our children as well as it should. Educational Performance and ... More >>
New Report Highlights How Our Housing Crisis Could Worsen If We Don’t Act Now
Tuesday, 23 February 2021, 5:58 am | The New Zealand Initiative
If New Zealand politicians thought the housing crisis in 2020 was bad, the worst is yet to come, warns a new report by The New Zealand Initiative. In The Need to Build: The demographic drivers of housing demand , Research Assistant Leonard Hong ... More >>
New Zealand Initiative Welcomes Quarantine-free Travel To NZ From The Cook Islands
Friday, 15 January 2021, 4:52 pm | The New Zealand Initiative
The New Zealand Initiative welcomes today’s announcement of quarantine-free travel to New Zealand from the Cook Islands. Initiative Chief Economist Dr Eric Crampton said, “About 80,000 Cook Islanders live in New Zealand. Allowing quarantine-free ... More >>
Why The ETS Is Sufficient To Deal With The Climate Emergency
Thursday, 10 December 2020, 1:36 pm | The New Zealand Initiative
Thanks to the work of successive climate change ministers from David Parker to James Shaw, New Zealand has a world-leading Emissions Trading Scheme (ETS). We should rely on it to drive down our carbon emissions, argues the Initiative’s executive director ... More >>
Is Climate Change A Key Risk To Global Financial Stability?
Monday, 2 November 2020, 4:26 pm | The New Zealand Initiative
By Bryce Wilkinson, The New Zealand Initiative senior fellow Introduction At the end of October, governor of the Reserve Bank Adrian Orr baldly asserted in a speech that climate change is “a key risk to global financial stability.” He made the ... More >>
‘The Only Briefing A Minister Needs,’ Report Presents Key Solutions For Next Government
Thursday, 8 October 2020, 8:30 am | The New Zealand Initiative
Over the next few years, New Zealand will face an immense challenge to keep Kiwi’s employed, get the economy growing again and rein in debt. According to a report by The New Zealand Initiative, there is also an important opportunity to fix the worst ... More >>
No Need For Wasteful Emissions Politics
Wednesday, 7 October 2020, 5:15 pm | The New Zealand Initiative
If the major political parties were taking climate change seriously, they would rely on the Emissions Trading Scheme (ETS) not add wasteful targets, says The New Zealand Initiative chief economist Dr Eric Crampton. Today, the Labour party unveiled ... More >>
NZ Schooling Must Reverse Alarming Decline, New Report Says
Wednesday, 7 October 2020, 6:15 am | The New Zealand Initiative
New Zealand’s education system is a mess, riddled with unscientific ideas and seduced by child-centred orthodoxy, according to a new report by The New Zealand Initiative. Falling from its height as the envy of the world just twenty years ago, ... More >>
The State Of Schooling
Monday, 10 August 2020, 5:28 am | The New Zealand Initiative
State-integrated schools are the best value for money compared with private and state schools, according to a new report by The New Zealand Initiative. Many parents want their kids to go to private schools. But new data crunched by policy analyst ... More >>
Vaping Legislation And Snus Bans
Tuesday, 4 August 2020, 3:07 pm | The New Zealand Initiative
The Government’s proposed vaping legislation includes an unnecessary and harmful ban on Swedish Snus. The New Zealand Initiative urged Parliament to consider Nicky Wagner’s Supplementary Order Paper that would strengthen the Bill’s ability to ... More >>
New Research Project Shows What Is Really Happening With Cannabis Legalisation In The US
Thursday, 25 June 2020, 3:56 pm | The New Zealand Initiative
Wellington, 25 June 2020 - The US experience with cannabis legalisation is as diverse as its many models – each state runs things differently, according to a new research project by the New Zealand Initiative. The Cannabis Legalisation and Control Bill ... More >>
