Evaluation of the No Asset Procedure Last Publication Date: 01 Jul 2011 The No Asset Procedure (NAP) was introduced in December 2007 as a means to assist people who have no available assets or insufficient income to repay…
Contributions of learning in the arts to educational, social and economic outcomes Last Publication Date: 01 Jul 2011 The contributions of learning in the arts to educational, social and economic outcomes. This report was prepared by Rachel Bolstad, New Zealand Council for Educational Research for…
Improving our understanding of Auckland's competitiveness: A synthesis of the Auckland Research Programme Last Publication Date: 01 Jun 2011 Between 2007 and 2011, the Auckland Policy Office (APO) managed a research programme with the objective of acquiring evidence about how policy can best contribute to…
Estimating the determinants of population in Auckland Last Publication Date: 01 May 2011 This paper analyses the location choices of new entrants to Auckland between 1996 and 2006, to identify a systematic relationship between residential location choices and features…
Evaluation of the Impacts of the Cross-Vote government assistance on firm performance Last Publication Date: 01 Apr 2011 This report presents results from an evaluation of publicly-funded R&D assistance provided to New Zealand firms. We use recent econometric techniques to assess the impact of…
Enhancing Productivity: Towards an Updated Action Agenda Last Publication Date: 01 Mar 2011 This paper presents an explanation of how the dynamic but uncertain process of economic development and growth occurs. It shows that economic development leads to structural…
Management Matters in New Zealand: How does Manufacturing Measure Up? Last Publication Date: 01 Mar 2011 This paper benchmarks management practices in New Zealand manufacturing firms against the global best. The project was undertaken by a research team from the University of…
Business Responses to the Introduction of the New Zealand Emissions Trading Scheme: Part I: Baseline Last Publication Date: 01 Mar 2011 This study creates a 2010 baseline of business responses to the introduction of the New Zealand Emissions Trading Scheme (NZ ETS) and the reasons for those…
Auckland’s Knowledge Economy: Australasian and European Comparisons Last Publication Date: 01 Mar 2011 This paper examines one key theme of modern spatial economics relating to city development: Do the major cities within and across countries increasingly attract a disproportionate…
Cultural philanthropy Last Publication Date: 01 Dec 2010 From the Foreword For centuries, culture and private philanthropy have been inextricably linked. Early in the first century AD, the Roman poet Horace dedicated his first poem…
