This report provides an overview of the dairy sector’s contribution to the New Zealand economy.

New Zealand has just had a ‘near miss’ with tsunami risk – for the second time in the last three months. An earlier NZIER Insight (no. 63) covered how a tsunami warning was issued 1 hour 20 minutes after the earthquake centred offshore from Te Aroha on Friday 2 September. This warning was issued 1...

Effective social policy and service delivery requires a learning system. Imagine if…New Zealand had an effective learning system to generate and capture evidence to inform spending decisions for social policy. A good learning system will include evidence about ‘doing the right things’ as well as ‘doing things right’. In this Insight we discuss three promising...

The New Zealand Institute of Economic Research (NZIER) has been reviewing the quality of local government policy advice for the past four years and this paper looks at the progress being made in improving the quality of advice.

Priming Auckland for ambitious future growth requires change on many policy fronts. Auckland is starting to swell. Rapid population and income growth are occurring, but Auckland’s narrow geography – with harbours on both sides of the city – limits land availability. Without change Auckland cannot reap the benefits of a growing population. Expect lower living...