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Housing Assets: A Paper for the 2013 Review of Retirement Income

This paper explores the connections between housing assets and retirement incomes. Older people’s high rates of home ownership today and rising house prices from about the…

Retirement Security and Financial Literacy in New Zealand: Policy Lessons from Abroad

  Most industrialized countries have in recent decades seen their long-standing retirement income policies challenged by demographic challenges (longer life expectancy and lower fertility rates), accompanied…

e-Learning Achievement: Trends, patterns and highlights

This report presents a view of tertiary e-learning achievement from 2004 to 2009. This report compares completion rates in courses that are delivered with e-learning to…

Local government: Results of the 2011/12 audits

The 2011/12 year was a demanding one for local authorities. They had to prepare three-yearly long-term plans for 2012-22 and then swiftly complete the 2011/12 annual…

Transport sector: Results of the 2011/12 audits

This is our first report specifically about our audits of public entities in the transport sector. It builds on the overview of our work on transport…

Crown Research Institutes: Results of the 2011/12 audits

Science and innovation are important to New Zealand's economic growth. The two high-level (government priority) outcomes that the science and innovation sector contributes to are "growing…

Inquiry into decision by Hon Shane Jones to grant citizenship to Mr Yang Liu

On 30 May 2012, I announced that my Office would carry out an inquiry into the decision by the former Associate Minister of Immigration, Hon Shane…

The effect of Auckland's Metropolitan Urban Limit on land prices

This research note estimates the impact of Auckland’s Metropolitan Urban Limit (MUL) on land values in the greater Auckland region. Building on the work of Grimes…

How integrated are the Australian and New Zealand economies?

This paper examines various de facto measures of the extent of economic integration between New Zealand and Australia. The range of measures considered indicates that significant…

Audience Research: Delayers of Infant Immunisation

In November 2011, the new immunisation health target seeking to improve immunisation timeliness of young infants was introduced. The target is 95 percent of all eight-month-olds…