To better understand the potential effects of transport policies, it is important to understand household spending patterns across different transport-related categories, as well as across different households. This study uses three distinct approaches to estimating transport elasticities for New Zealand.

Every three years since 2007 the Reserve Bank has conducted a Consumer Payments Survey, which provides comprehensive information on how Australians make payments. The 2022 survey is the first to be conducted since the COVID-19 pandemic, and so provides a valuable snapshot of its impact on consumer spending patterns.

Nature underpins the functioning of society and the economy – but it is in crisis and is getting worse. This briefing sets out six critical actions for business, government and financial institutions to transform societies and economies towards a nature positive future.

This report explores reasons why some of the recommendations surrounding food waste minimisation are not be being achieved. A key factor appears that retailers have little incentive to reduce waste, for the simple reason that doing so would cost them money.

The rapid proliferation of simplified nutrition labelling schemes across OECD countries, and more widely across the world, raises questions related to policy processes and impacts. Existing studies do not focus on the policy process and how governments engage with stakeholders. There is a lack of information on industry stakeholder engagement with governments throughout their policy...