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The early years consensus
By Kieran Madden
The first three years are critical for a child’s development and long-term success in life, but policy has unfortunately been…
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Think Big 2.0: The Provincial Growth Fund risks turning into a fiasco
By Alex Penk
This article was written by Alex Penk and Julian Wood, and first published on The Spinoff on 26 February, on…
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Making the Provincial Growth Fund a risk worth taking
By Julian Wood
The Provincial Growth Fund (PGF) represents a once in a generation opportunity to support a sustainable future for New Zealand’s…
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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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When AI goes wrong
By Alex Penk
You may have heard that the robots are coming to take our jobs, thanks to artificial intelligence. But a…
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Time to take a risk for the regions – Newsroom column
By Alex Penk
To lay out an explanation for the recommendations in our Taking the Right Risks policy paper on regional development, Alex Penk…
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Planning to take the right risks for our regions
By Julian Wood
New Zealand’s Regional Development Minister Shane Jones has a problem. He has three billion dollars and three years to change…
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$1B regional development fund needs coherent vision
By Alex Penk
Maxim Institute welcomes investment in New Zealand’s regions, but CEO Alex Penk cautions that we urgently need more detail on…
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Paying at the pump to revive our crumbling infrastructure
By Julian Wood
We hear a lot about Auckland’s infrastructure woes, but across the country there are regions desperately trying to fund their…
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Urban/rural split could lead to political polarisation
By Alex Penk
Alex’s latest op-ed features in The Christchurch Press, where he discusses the political and social risks of growing demographic rifts between…
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Newspaper coverage of regional development paper
Newspapers around New Zealand published articles in response to our Growing Beyond Growth report on regional development Read articles from: …
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NZ Herald Focus interview on regional development paper
Bernadine Oliver-Kerby interviewed Alex Penk about our regional development paper for NZ Herald’s online video series. Watch the interview here
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Alex Penk on RNZ National – Regional Development
The day we released our paper Growing Beyond Growth – rethinking the goals of regional development in New Zealand, CEO Alex…
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Get real about regional spending
By Julian Wood
If you put people in a room and ask them how to bring growth to New Zealand’s regions, someone will…
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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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Inspiring Sustainable Development Goals
By Jane Silloway Smith
Since the UN announced their new Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs)—17 broad goals with 169 specific sub-targets for the world to…
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Turning off the taps
Billionaire Lord Michael Ashcroft made quite the splash recently when he requested that the UK government “‘turn off the golden…
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Paying for Samoan Education
It was announced with much fanfare last week that the New Zealand Government will be dedicating $5 million of its…
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Recognised Seasonal Employer Scheme
Yet another round of positive evaluations of the Recognised Seasonal Employer Scheme (RSE) has just been released by the Department…
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Greening New Zealand’s growth
One of the many working groups that have been beavering away under the National-led Government has been a Green Growth…
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