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Gareth Vaughan of interest.co.nz takes a look at a shared equity scheme that was proposed and rejected for Tamaki. This is both an article and a video with Pat Snedden and Arthur Grimes. More...
Nov 1, 2017
Colin James writes in the Otago Daily Times about what the Treasury is telling Grant Robertson about ''wellbeing economics''. This includes a look at Arthur Grimes's work. More...
Oct 31, 2017
Richard Rennie of Farmers Weekly talks with Suzi Kerr and others about the way that foresters, environmentalists and climate change experts are welcoming the Government’s policy moves to manage the country’s runaway gas emissions. More...
Oct 30, 2017
The Climate Change and Stormwater and Wastewater Systems report, commissioned by the Deep South National Science Challenge, highlights infrastructure issues Aotearoa New Zealand may face as it grapples with “increasingly severe risks” of extreme rainfall,…
Oct 27, 2017
The recent Edgecumbe floods saw raw sewage floating through the streets, making the clean-up extremely challenging. Six months later, 500 houses are still unliveable and flood-proofing the town remains a distant goal. The asset value of…
Oct 27, 2017
Motu is pleased to announce the top economics tertiary student for 2017 is Livvy Mitchell, from AUT who has won the Sir Frank Holmes Prize. In recognising Sir Frank Holmes as one of New Zealand’s pre-eminent economists and…
Oct 26, 2017
Innovation experts have welcomed the new coalition government's goal of boosting spending on research and development to two per cent of GDP over 10 years. But it won't be easy - and could require a huge…
Oct 25, 2017
New Zealand Prime Minister-elect Jacinda Ardern on Friday confirmed that the country’s emissions trading scheme would stay as part of the new government’s wide-reaching climate policies, as NZU prices surged 2.7% to their highest levels…
Oct 20, 2017
The formation of a center-left government in New Zealand after an inconclusive election last month would likely spell big changes for its central bank, the pioneer of the inflation-targeting regime adopted across the world. This…
Oct 13, 2017
Insurance Business NZ covers the work done by Motu and the Deep South National Science Challenge around insurance and climate change here...
Oct 9, 2017
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