This report explores school effectiveness across state, state-integrated, and private schools, otherwise defined as school authority (or type).

This report provides a pathway toward safer scaling-up of New Zealand's border capabilities.

Public debt is expected to rise from 19% of GDP in 2019 to nearly 54% by 2024 and remain elevated for decades to come. This report argues there is one area where evidence suggests significant savings could be made, with little impact on public policy objectives: retirement income policy concerning KiwiSaver, New Zealand Superannuation and...

New Zealand is now on a dangerous path to higher public debt and unprecedented money printing, with no credible plan for unwinding the situation before the next crisis, warns this report by the New Zealand Initiative.

Alongside South Korea, Taiwan is one of the few countries to “flatten the curve” of Covid-19 without a national lockdown due to its prior experience with the SARS epidemic of 2003. New Zealand’s pathway is similar to Taiwan’s and there are lessons to be learned as New Zealand moves into Alert Level 2. This report...