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Policy Paper | Creating Opportunity
By Danielle van Dalen
People with disabilities are overlooked in the national conversation on poverty and overrepresented in New Zealand’s poverty statistics. They face…
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Regional Development Policy Paper | A Risk Worth Taking
By Julian Wood
One year into the $3B Provincial Growth Fund, Maxim Institute’s new research A Risk Worth Taking – Ensuring the Provincial…
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Regional Development Policy Paper | Taking the Right Risks
By Julian Wood
Our previous work on regional development laid out the evidence that large parts of New Zealand are facing a 30 year wave…
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Discussion Paper | Acknowledging Ability
By Danielle van Dalen
People who are living with a disability are vastly overrepresented in New Zealand’s poverty figures, and 74 percent of those…
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Growing Beyond Growth | Rethinking the goals of regional development in New Zealand
By Julian Wood
New Zealand is already feeling the effects of an oncoming wave of economic and demographic change which should dramatically influence…
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Poverty in New Zealand | The Heart of Poverty
By Kieran Madden
Research Series Every society tells a story about the good life, getting a fair go, or what it takes to live…
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The Heart of Poverty Series #3: Uncovering the pathways in to and out of disadvantage in New Zealand
By Kieran Madden
Around 10 to 15 percent of New Zealand families are stuck in persistent poverty that will keep them trapped there…
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The Heart of Poverty Series #2: Defining and measuring what it means to be poor in New Zealand
By Kieran Madden
Who is poor? How did they get there, and how has poverty damaged their lives? This set of recommendations on…
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Submission | Health Select Committee Inquiry into the ending of one’s life in New Zealand
By Jane Silloway Smith
Since late 2013, Maxim Institute has undertaken a stream of research into the legal and policy arguments regarding euthanasia and…
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Research Note: Anchoring the Abstract – what good school leadership looks like
By Luke Fenwick
What is the “magic” of great school leaders, and how do we replicate it? What does it look like when…
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Policy Paper: Joining Forces – nine ways to improve leadership in New Zealand schools
By Luke Fenwick
What is the “magic” of great school leaders, and how do we replicate it? What does it look like when…
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The Heart of Poverty Series #1: Matching passion with precision for struggling New Zealanders
By Kieran Madden
We still have a persistent poverty problem in New Zealand today, and not for a lack of debate, dollars, or…
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Submission: Time for a four-year parliamentary term
By Kieran Madden
It’s time for a four-year term. While it’s been in and out of the news all year, after extensive research…
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Constitutional Theory for the Constitutional Review
By Research Fellow
What is the history of New Zealand’s constitution? What is the nature and purpose of a constitution? What is the…
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Understanding Charter Schools: Research Note #3
By Luke Fenwick
In this third and final Research Note in our Understanding Charter Schools Series, Dr Luke Fenwick interrogates whether for-profit operators…
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Submission: Education Amendment Bill 2012
By Luke Fenwick
Maxim Institute has made a submission supporting the Education Amendment Bill’s introduction of partnership schools kura hourua, with suggestions for…
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Understanding Charter Schools: Research Note #2
By Steve Thomas
As a form of charter school, the Government’s pilot Partnership Schools, or Kura Hourua, will operate alongside regular state schools….
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Submission: Lobbying Disclosure Bill
By Alex Penk
The Lobbying Disclosure Bill is currently before Select Committee. Maxim Institute has made a submission on the bill, arguing that…
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Understanding Charter Schools: Research Note #1
By Steve Thomas
Charter schools have been in the headlines repeatedly this year – much of the time as critics point out their…
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Kicking the tyres: Choosing a voting system for New Zealand
By Steve Thomas
At the 2011 election in November, voters will get the chance to vote in a referendum on whether New Zealand…
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