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It's Time For A Politically Sustainable Approach To Improving Water Quality
Monday, 23 August 2021, 6:41 am | The New Zealand Institute
Improving water quality requires more than short-term fixes, concludes a new report released today by the New Zealand Initiative. Any Government committed to improving New Zealand’s freshwater quality must build the institutions that can deliver it ... More >>
A Public Meeting on Charter Schools with Dr Mike Feinberg
Thursday, 27 September 2012, 4:04 pm | The New Zealand Institute
Spaces are still available for tonight’s charter schools public meeting in Auckland with Dr Mike Feinberg, co-founder of the United States’ Knowledge Is Power Programme (KIPP), a public charter schools network. More >>
New Zealand’s overall performance still average - graded C
Wednesday, 26 October 2011, 10:33 am | The New Zealand Institute
The New Zealand Institute has today released its update to the online NZahead report card assessing New Zealands performance on 16 economic, environmental and social measures. More >>
NZ competitiveness restricted by innovation performance
Thursday, 8 September 2011, 9:29 am | The New Zealand Institute
New Zealand’s Global Competitiveness Index score has remained stable since last year but the country has slipped two places to 25th of 142 countries, overtaken by Israel and Malaysia. More >>
More ladders, fewer snakes: Two proposals
Tuesday, 19 July 2011, 10:37 am | The New Zealand Institute
Today the New Zealand Institute releases its first discussion paper focused on social well-being. More >>
Tony Carter Appointed Chair of the New Zealand Institute
Friday, 10 December 2010, 7:34 pm | The New Zealand Institute
The New Zealand Institute has announced the appointment of Tony Carter as Chair. After two years of dedicated service Dr Keith Turner has stepped down from the role with the thanks and best wishes of the Institute. More >>
A Goal is Not a Strategy: Discussion Paper Released Today
Thursday, 19 August 2010, 9:28 am | The New Zealand Institute
Conclusions from our strategic review of New Zealand’s economy are contained in our publication ' A goal is not a strategy: Focusing efforts to improve New Zealand's prosperity '. Establishing bold goals such as 'matching Australia’s GDP per capita ... More >>
Grade C. New Zealand could do better
Wednesday, 31 March 2010, 1:23 pm | The New Zealand Institute
New Zealand is a country with high potential. Material wealth, a productive and beautiful environment, cultural richness and world-class institutions make it a great place to live. New Zealand’s appeal is based on the whole package, not a single attribute. More >>
Prime Minister should be prime innovator
Wednesday, 24 March 2010, 10:47 am | The New Zealand Institute
Getting better at innovation is so vital to New Zealand’s economic success that the Government should create an Innovation Council, and it should be chaired by the Prime Minister. More >>
Standing On The Shoulders Of Science
Wednesday, 9 December 2009, 9:36 am | The New Zealand Institute
The New Zealand Institute has released a discussion paper titled Standing on the shoulders of science: Getting more value from the innovation ecosystem. The discussion paper concludes that improving the innovation ecosystem, especially commercialisation ... More >>
Commercialise science to form global businesses
Tuesday, 29 September 2009, 2:37 pm | The New Zealand Institute
Scientific innovation is a key driver of prosperity for advanced economies, New Zealand is not commercialising scientific innovation well enough, and there are opportunities to improve our performance. Using publicly funded science to develop innovations ... More >>
As inadequate as a lone chopstick
Friday, 29 May 2009, 9:58 am | The New Zealand Institute
2009 budget not enough to springboard New Zealand out of the recession Going into this Budget, New Zealand was not just facing a possible ratings downgrade due to the spectre of a government debt explosion. Even before being hit by the global economic ... More >>
Unemployment must spur focus on competitivness
Tuesday, 5 May 2009, 11:24 am | The New Zealand Institute
In the run-up to this Thursday’s release of unemployment statistics from the Household Labour Force Survey, it is timely to consider how an environment of rising unemployment should influence the policy choices of this government. The Government should be ... More >>
OCR Cut Welcomed: Gov Budget Action Next Test
Thursday, 30 April 2009, 1:20 pm | The New Zealand Institute
The New Zealand Institute welcomed the Reserve Bank’s decision to cut the Official Cash Rate by 50 basis points to 2.5%, despite some predictions that it would cut the rate only to 2.75%. More >>
Not just a case of a passing recessionary flu
Wednesday, 29 April 2009, 10:03 am | The New Zealand Institute
Not just a case of a passing recessionary flu The New Zealand Institute has today released, 'Not just a case of a passing recessionary flu: The Budget must also address an underlying lack of economic fitness'. This article describes the New Zealand government's ... More >>
Institute makes three senior appointments
Monday, 23 February 2009, 9:54 am | The New Zealand Institute
The New Zealand Institute has made three senior appointments to its leadership team as it drives the development of the Institute’s 2009 work programme. More >>
Delivering on the broadband aspiration
Wednesday, 2 April 2008, 11:13 am | The New Zealand Institute
The New Zealand Institute has today released the final presentation in its research project on broadband. This presentation, ‘Delivering on the broadband aspiration: A recommended pathway to fibre for New Zealand’ , outlines a proposal to accelerate ... More >>
Assessing NZ's Current Broadband Path
Wednesday, 12 March 2008, 11:16 am | The New Zealand Institute
The New Zealand Institute has today released a further presentation in its research project on broadband. This presentation, ‘Assessing New Zealand's current broadband path: The need for change’, examines the extent to which New Zealand's current ... More >>
New Zealand needs to speed up emissions reduction
Wednesday, 5 March 2008, 10:25 am | The New Zealand Institute
The report argues that more needs to be done to reduce New Zealand’s emissions in order to position New Zealand to operate successfully in what will likely be a low emissions global economy. More >>
Developing an External Strategy for New Zealand
Friday, 17 November 2006, 10:45 am | The New Zealand Institute
The New Zealand Institute has today released the fifth report in its series on ‘Creating a global New Zealand economy’. This report, ‘Competing to win: An external strategy for a changed world’, proposes an external strategy for New Zealand that is aimed ... More >>
