This paper addresses the challenge of rebooting the mining boom. It argues that inefficiencies which developed or were sustained over the high price phase of the boom can no longer be sustained over the next decade.

Following the renewed emphasis in 2008 on sustainable economic development as a core driver in the NZ Aid Programme, the New Zealand Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Trade (MFAT) began exploring options for strengthening its engagement in economic development in the Pacific Island Countries (PICs). This included investigating what additional support might be required to...

This paper canvasses the ongoing NSW planning system reforms. Foreshadowed by the NSW Coalition prior to the 2011 election, the reforms involve wholesale change to the planning system including the development of a new Planning Act. Reviewed in the paper are divergent comments from selected stakeholders on four key areas of the proposed reforms; these...

Special economic zones can be defined as specific geographic areas offering particular incentives, for a defined period of time, to businesses and industries which physically locate within the zones. Incentives have traditionally been provided by governments with the aim of revitalizing or developing a particular area. The scope of the Committee's inquiry into special economic...

This paper describes the nature of community development employment in 2008 and the extent to which it changed between 1994 and 2008. The paper also compares a selection of economic and social outcomes of CDEP participants with those of persons who are employed outside of CDEP, unemployed, and not-in-the-labour-force (NILF) in 2008, and the extent...