Wellington (Thursday, 20 April 2023) – A new report, authored by Emeritus Professor Des Gorman and Dr Murray Horn, reveals that New Zealand's COVID-19 pandemic management was highly politicised and resulted in poor performance during the outbreak. Lifting .
The New Zealand Initiative has damned the consultation process for the Severe Weather Emergency Recovery Legislation Bill. It urges that the Bill be amended to force rigorous [MB1] post-enactment scrutiny, with the legislation repealed by 30 September if that .
However, new research
from the New Zealand Initiative shows that this might not be
the case.
Results suggest that some low decile schools
might be doing a better job at preparing their students for
completing a tertiary qualification.
Using data on
more than 500,000 students enrolled at nearly 500 secondary
schools, Policy Analyst Joel Hernandez shows that there are
high-performing schools across all deciles.
Among
high-performing schools (the top 10%), low decile schools
tend to outnumber their middle- and high-decile peers,
however.
This is the case when we consider the share
of students that go on to complete a tertiary qualification
one, three, five and seven years after
Wellington (Wednesday, 9 June 2021): The New Zealand Initiative calls on the Government to reject the Climate Change Commission’s recommendations and instead rely on the Emissions Trading Scheme’s cap to achieve net zero emissions by 2050. “The Climate .
Partridge said The New Zealand
Initiative’s 2019 report,
Work in Progress: Why Fair
Pay Agreements would be bad for labour, found that Fair
Pay Agreements would be likely to harm productivity and
would be not be in the interests of workers, the unemployed,
consumers, and overall wellbeing.
“Rather than
advancing the government’s vision of a high-wage,
high-productivity economy, Fair Pay Agreements would
undermine it,” Partridge said.
The Initiative’s
2019 report examined the claims in favour of Fair Pay
Agreements proposals and found there were no good grounds
for them. Its research revealed New Zealand’s labour
market settings were actually working well for both workers