New Zealanders need a competent, productive and merit-based public service. Those attributes matter for effective government and community wellbeing. This report looks at the overall performance of the New Zealand public service.

This final report from the New Zealand Productivity Commission's inquiry found that people experiencing disadvantage and those trying to support them are constrained by powerful system barriers. Barriers include siloed and fragmented government agencies and 'short-termism'. These barriers make it very hard for those experiencing persistent disadvantage to escape and can even make single-factor or...

This briefing paper explores the potential impact of the new pathway to gaining Australian citizenship on the New Zealand economy.

Policy-makers worldwide have long asked what makes one country or economy more resilient than another, or one region more resilient than another. ‘Resilience’ has been a topic of enduring interest to policy-makers and academics. If policy work aimed at improving resilience is to be effective, policy-makers need to be clear about what they mean by...

The author of this paper suggests that without more donors, the New Zealand Blood Service warns that the nation will rely more heavily on imported plasma products.