Economic development
Article
On the northern treadmill
Today's advocacy of massive northern developments takes place in a virtual historical vacuum. This article makes a plea for the vacuum to be filled.
Policy
Australian Government public data policy statement
As part of the National Innovation and Science Agenda, the Australian Government has today released its Public Data Policy Statement. This formalises the Government’s commitment to open data and data-driven innovation. Access to and use of the data that is collected by Commonwealth Government entities, referred to as ‘public data’, has the potential to stimulate...
Report
Infrastructure in the Pacific: learnings from completed investments 2004-2013
Selected infrastructure investments completed between 2004-2013 by the New Zealand Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Trade (MFAT) were evaluated. The purpose of the evaluation is to independently inform MFAT of improvements that can be made within current infrastructure investments in the Pacific and lessons learned that can be applied to energy and non-energy Activities. Four...
Report
New Zealand Aid Programme: Public Private Partnerships Research Project
In response to the need to increase the level of engagement of the private sector in the New Zealand Aid Programme, this report identifies ways in which it may be able to encourage greater levels of engagement through innovative methods.
Report
Succeeding together: maximising the potential for joint opportunities between Australia and Indonesia
This report, a product of Indonesian and Australian collaborators, provides an evidence-based argument that the opportunities to capture a significant part of a multi-trillion dollar market are real and that capturing them through combining, creating and selling are, in the words of ANZ CEO Mike Smith, ‘attainable without having to do too much to make...