Factors that help/hinder community economic development: Emerging learnings from CEDAR Last Publication Date: 01 Jun 2003 The purpose of this paper is to look back over the three years of Community Economic Development Action Research (CEDAR) project and share some of the…
Towards Building A New Consensus About New Zealand’s Productivity Last Publication Date: 01 Jan 2003 There is a wide consensus that New Zealand’s productivity has been poor despite the comprehensive market-oriented reforms of the 1980’s. This consensus is based on estimates…
Business Immigration: The Evaluation of the 1999 Business Immigration Policy Last Publication Date: 01 Aug 2002 The main purpose of this report was to document an evaluation of the business immigration policy, which was introduced in April 1999. The main aim of…
Local government funding and financing - related reports These related reports informed the New Zealand Productivity Commission's inquiry Local government funding and financing. The reports cover: whether legislation governing local authority rates should be amended…